MASSES & SERVICES Saturday: 5pm (Anticipated Mass)Sunday: 9am, 11am & 5pm Monday – Wednesday 8amThursday Mass/Novena: 8am & 7pm Friday, Saturday, Holidays: 9am(Fridays in July & August: 8am) Children’s Mass: 9am 1st Sunday of the month Oct-JuneChildren’s Liturgy: 11am All Sundays except the 1st

Sunday from Sept- JuneReconciliationSaturday: 4-4:45pmAdoration Saturday 9:30-10am Library Hours Sunday: 10-10:45am, 4:30-5pmOFFICE HOURS Monday-Friday: 9am-4pmSTAFFPastor Babu Mathew, C.Ss.R. Associate Pastor Joseph Horo, C.Ss.R. In ResidenceWilliam Comerford, C.Ss.R.Office Manager Virginia Fong Pastoral Coordinator Bertilla Watanabe Bookkeeper Corinna SiyYouth Ministry CoordinatorTheresa Barao OLPH School PrincipalLora ClarkeJr. Kindergarten DirectorMaria CorteseCONTACTEmail: parish.olph@rcav.org Website: www.olphchurch.ca

Let your love be upon us Lord, even as we hope in you. – Psalm 33

Thank You For The Wonderful Support Over ThanksgivingDear Parishioners, I have always thought that making pie was a really easy thing to do. After all isn’t that where the expression “as easy as pie” comes from? Well, I was in for a lesson and a half. When I raised the idea of our youth baking pies as a fundraiser, I got an earful from our regular volunteers who are the voices of wisdom around me.

To try to make 200 pies…yes, that was the original plan (!) would be, according to these experienced bakers, a very tricky undertaking. After a few unsolicited lessons on pie-making, we decided to rethink the plan. We managed to find an established bakery which supplied us pie at a very special rate. And presto! It was a delight to see frozen pies selling like hot cakes! Over 200 of them.

The youth were thrilled. Instead of doing a crash course on pie-making, they focused on packaging and sales. Personally, I was relieved I didn’t have to eat humble pie. The wonderful ladies who had given all their baking advice were pleased that good sense prevailed. On Thanksgiving evening, as I was savoring a delicious piece of pumpkin pie, it came to me: “easy as pie” means - as easy as “eating” pie not making it. Thank you for the wonderful support and donations to the Youth Ministry.

Speaking of giving, I would like to remind you that your Project Advance Phase 2 Appeal letter was mailed out a couple of weeks ago. As you may know, our part of the Archdiocesan goal for 2018 has been met. In mid-October we exceeded this goal by $18,483. However, we still need to raise another $33, 157 to reach our parish goal of $104,000. I urge you to think about how much we would all benefit from the growth and development of our parish. Your contribution to Project Advance would enable us to move forward.

Please pray the Project Advance prayer below with your families and think about how you can make a powerful and prayerful impact to the parish community. May our Blessed Mother guide us in all our plans and daily acts of thanksgiving.

Yours in Christ,

PARISH DIRECTORYParish CouncilDonna Trasolinitrasolini@telus.netFinance CouncilLauri Ann Fenlonlauri.ann.fenlon@gmail.com Parish Education CommitteeMaili Wongpec@olphbc.caCOORDINATORSAltar GuildBridget Bird 604-228-9180Altar ServersKate Carr 604-730-5640Catholic Women’s LeagueMeg KnowlingMKnowling@Outlook.comChildren’s LiturgyKathy Mok communications.olph@rcav.orgCraft GroupDoris Rankin 604-224-0876Development & PeaceDeirdre Webster 604-736-0714Eucharistic MinistryPamela Brammall 604-228-9206Food BankRobyn Sirmul robynsirmul@shaw.caHospitality MinistryGerry Macken 604-222-1369Knights of ColumbusPeter Dodge 604-649-1111Library Katherine Hillkathswim2012@gmail.comLiturgy of the HoursBridget Clark 604-228-8773Madonna GroupMonica Cheung 604-739-8837Ministry of the WordRoger Poirier 604-224-0426Music Ministry Catherine Walsh catherine.organist@gmail.comPastoral CareMary Thompson 604-263-6008PREPElizabeth Towers 604-440-8809Project AdvanceBertilla Watanabe 604-224-4344RCIABertilla Watanabe bwatanabe@rcav.orgSocial Justice/St. Vincent de PaulMark Thompson 778-891-6275Volunteers Coordinator

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REDEMPTORIST MISSIONARY

October 21, 2018 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISH

Francis Xavier Seelos, one of 12 children born to Mang and Frances Schwarzenbach Seelos, was born on January 11, 1819, in Füssen (Bavaria, Germany). He was baptized on the same day in the parish church of Saint Mang where his father, a textile merchant, later became the sacristan. After his primary education in 1831, Francis expressed a desire to become a priest. After receiving his high school diploma he went to the University in Munich, Bavaria to study Philosophy. He then began to study theology in preparation to enter the seminary where he was admitted in 1842.It was during this time that through his acquaintance with Redemptorist missionaries, he came to know the charism of the Institute, founded to evangelize the most abandoned, and its apostolic works among immigrants in the United States. Moved by a profound apostolic zeal to help German immigrants in the US lacking spiritual care, Seelos entered the Congregation, requesting that he be sent to the United States. In 1842, he sailed from the port of Le Havre, France, arriving in New York on April 20, 1843. In 1844, after completing his theological studies and novitiate, Seelos was ordained a Priest in the Redemptorist Church of St. James in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. A few months later, he was transferred to St. Philomena’s Parish in Pittsburgh where he remained nine years. His first six years were spent as assistant pastor with St. John Neumann, who was also the superior of the Redemptorist community. The remaining three years, Francis Seelos served as superior of that same community. It was during these years that he was appointed Master of Novices for the Redemptorists.In addition to his work as assistant pastor, Seelos dedicated himself to preaching missions. His availability and innate kindness made him well known as a confessor and spiritual director. For Seelos, Confession was not a torment, rather it’s the locus of a life-giving encounter with Christ Most Patient and Merciful. The faithful described him as the missionary with the constant smile on his lips and a generous heart, especially towards the needy and the marginalized. Faithful to the Redemptorist charism, he practiced a simple life style and manner. The themes of his preaching, rich in biblical content, were understood even by the simplest people. A constant endeavor in his pastoral activity was instructing the little children in the faith. He not only favored this ministry, he held it as fundamental for the growth of the Christian community in the Parish.In 1854, he was transferred from Pittsburgh, to a number of cities in the state of Maryland: Baltimore, then Cumberland in1857, and to Annapolis (1862), all the while engaged in Parish ministry. In Cumberland and Annapolis, he also served in the formation of future Redemptorists as Prefect of Students. In this post to, he was always the kind and happy pastor, attentive to the needs and formation of his students. He strove to instill in these future Redemptorist missionaries the enthusiasm, the spirit of sacrifice and apostolic zeal for the spiritual and temporal welfare of the people.Following the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, new laws were enacted in 1863 which required every able-bodied male to make himself available for military duty. Seelos, as Superior of the Redemptorist seminary, travelled to Washington to meet with President Abraham Lincoln to ask him to exempt the Redemptorist seminarians from military service. Lincoln promised to do everything in his power to bring it about. The students were exempted from going off to war.From 1863 to 1866 Seelos dedicated himself to the life of an itinerant missionary preaching in English and German in Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. After a brief period of parish ministry in Detroit, Michigan, he was assigned in 1866 to the Redemptorist community in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here also, as pastor of Assumption Parish, he was known as a pastor who was joyously available to his faithful and singularly concerned for the poorest and the most abandoned. As in other cities, his prayers were considered very powerful in obtaining favors from God.

Bl. Seelos: Mission with a Smile

PRAYER FOR PROJECT ADVANCE 2018O God, the Father of every gift, all that we are and have comes from your hand. In Jesus Christ, your Son, you have given us the greatest of all gifts. Fill our hearts with his love so that we may be parish communities of faithful, caring people. Grant us the grace to be good stewards who in the name and spirit of Jesus, share our gifts of time, talent and treasure for the building up of your Kingdom in our Archdiocese and throughout the world. May we see Project Advance as our way to live gratefully and give generously for your honour and glory. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

CALENDAR

Stewardship Reflection

“For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” -- MARK 10:45

If you held a mirror up to your life, would it reflect God’s love and mercy? If you are struggling with this, try changing your attitude from “I want more” to “thank you God for everything you have given me, I have enough to share”. This change in perspective will bring you joy through service to others.

MISSION SUNDAYNEWS & NOTICES

November is the month to pray for souls. A Memorial Mass and Reception will be held for all those who wish to offer up prayers for their loved ones. We will also remember in a special way, parishioners who died this past year and those whose funerals were held in our parish. Mass is on Saturday November 3 at 9am. Reception in the hall immediately after.

Missed a few? You can still join us on Thursdays between the Birthday of Mary (Sept 8) and the start of Advent (Dec 2) for a series of Marian Meditations with prayers and music. Thursdays at our parish have been dedicated to devotions to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. This will be another beautiful way to invoke the help of Our Blessed Mother for the spiritual and temporal needs of your family and friends for the coming year. Thursdays 2:30pm-3pm.

The annual OLPH Christmas Fair is scheduled for Saturday November 24, 2018 and will run from 11 AM until 3 PM. There may be some goods on sale on Sunday after the Masses. As ever we are encouraging all OLPH Parishioners and School Families to join us. We will be selling crafts, fresh home-made baked goodies, Treasures and books. There will be a Tea Room where you can have sandwiches and sweets - tickets

Weekly Collection: Sunday Mass Offering Oct 13 & 14: $6,347.95. Needs of Canadian Church: $25. Offering for the Needy: $1,425. Thank you for your faith-filled generosity.Project Advance Report: On Oct 15 pledges including recurring donations up to 31 Dec this year were at $70,483 with participation from 121 donors. We have now exceeded our archdiocesan goal of $52,000. All funds raised now will be rebated to the parish. Our total goal is $104,000 which will go toward the Parish infrastructure renewal. Please make a prayerful contribution to Project Advance this year. Thank you for your support.Santa’s Workshop: Is everyone looking forward to Santa’s Workshop? Yes, it’s that time of the year already to plan ahead for our Christmas outreach. If you can help with Santa’s Workshop please sign up now. All teens welcome! Sign-up sheets are in the foyer.Food Bank: Cash donations for the Food Bank will be accepted this weekend. Thank you in advance for your generosity.Knights of Columbus Raffle: We are working with our Youth Group to raise funds to support the Kitsilano Shower Program which has served the unhoused in our community since 2003 to provide showers and hot breakfasts every Saturday and clothes, shoes, socks, toiletries, as well as medical and dental attention as needed.  We are selling Raffle tickets for $2 to win various exciting prizes donated by local merchants, but mostly to raise funds to support this worthwhile program.Christmas Fair Donations: We would appreciate your donations for our annual Christmas Fair happening on Saturday November 24. We are looking for raffle prizes, Treasure Trove items, handicrafts and baked goods to sell. We also will need donations of sweets and sandwiches for the tea room as well as volunteers for serving in the tea room and helping in the kitchen. There will be sign up sheets at the door of the Church. Anyone is welcome to sign up. Please contact Meg Knowling about donations or if you need more info: MKnowling@Outlook.com.Becoming Catholic: If you are interested in the Catholic faith or have been away from the Church for some time and would like to come back, join us on Sunday mornings for The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA). It is a beautiful journey of spiritual discovery culminating in Easter celebrations on April 21 next year. If you are already in the faith and know of people who have not discovered Jesus, have missed receiving First Communion and Confirmation, or simply fallen out of the practice of the Faith, extend a personal invitation to them to join us on this spiritual journey. Sundays 9am-10:30am. Application forms available in the church foyer and parish office.St Mark’s Breakfast Fundraiser: “Unless someone guides me” (Acts 8:31) How are we formed to proclaim the Good News in today’s world? You are invited to the 18th Annual Fundraising Breakfast in support of Corpus Christi-St. Mark's. Funds raised will benefit student scholarship and financial assistance programs. This year’s keynote speaker is Sister Marie Zarowny, SSA, a social justice advocate, educator and Province Co-Leader for the Sisters of Saint Ann Western Canada region. In 2011, the Doctor of Sacred Letters recognized Sr. Marie for her distinguished service to her Congregation, to the field of education, and especially to Christian faith-based communities in assisting them to hear and respond to the Gospel call to social transformation. If you wish to attend this talk at a table with other OLPH parishioners, please contact Emily Dionisio Email: developmentoffice@stmarkscollege.ca. Date: 9am Sat. November 3, 2018 at Vancouver College, 5400 Cartier Street, Vancouver.

Quo Vadis – Men’s Discernment Events: Join us for a discernment evening with Fr. Justin Huang – Joys and Struggles of a Parish Priest on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. at St. Patrick's Parish, Vancouver. Open to single Catholic men ages 18+ who want to answer the question: What is God calling me to do with my life? Please register at least one week in advance by contacting the Vocations Office at vocations@rcav.org or call 604-443-3254. Vocationsvancouver.ca/

Understanding Resistance in Children and/or Adolescents: You have been chosen to guide, protect and love your child into the person God created them to be; this is an awesome and, at times, an extremely challenging task. Get help in this talk: Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 6 p.m. at St. Anthony, West Vancouver. Register at rcav.org/parenting/

12-week Marian Meditations

12-DAY ITINERARYDay 01: May 02 2019 - Canada to Rome / Naples Day 02 May 03 - Arrive in Rome – Marianella – NaplesDay 03: May 04 - Pompeii – Amalfi CoastDay 04: May 05 - Excursion to ScalaDay 05: May 06 - Sites of St. Alphonsus and St. Gerard MajellaDay 06: May 07 - Amalfi – Montecassiono – RomeDay 7: May 08 - Papal Audience – Holy Doors of Rome – Relics of JerusalemDay 8: May 09 - Rome (Vatican)Day 9: May 10 - Assisi – Sites of St. Francis and St. ClareDAY 10: May 11 - Pisa –

Redemptorist Pilgrimage: May 2-14As part of our 150th Jubilee Icon of Love celebrations, the Redemptorists all over the world have organized several pilgrimages to visit the actual icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, places where St Alphonsus and St Gerard Majella lived and prayed as well as other places of interest in Italy.

There will be 2 information sessions on Sunday Oct 28 after the 9am and 11am Masses. The cost of the trip is $4800. The early bird rate is $4600. A deposit of $500 must be made before Nov 30 for the early bird rate. Full payment is due by Jan 30, 2019. Arrangements can be made for pre-authorized payments as well. For more information about the

Memorial MassOCTOBER/NOVEMBER

OLPH Christmas Fair

The Christian faith remains ever young when it is open to the mission that Christ entrusts to us. ‘Mission revitalises faith’ (Redemptoris Missio, 2), in the words of Saint John Paul II.Life is a missionEvery man and woman is a mission; that is the reason for our life on this earth. To be attracted and to be sent are two movements that our hearts, especiallywhen we are young, feel as interior forces of love; they hold out promise for our future and they give direction to our lives. When I think back to my youth and my family, I remember the strength of my hope for a better future. We are all called to reflect on this fact: ‘I am a mission on this Earth; that is the reason why I am here in this world’ (Evangelii Gaudium, 273).We proclaim Jesus ChristThe Church, by proclaiming what she freely received, can share the way and truth which give meaning to our life on this earth. Jesus Christ, who died and rose for us, appeals to our freedom and challenges us to seek, discover and proclaim this message of truth and fulfilment. Do not be afraid of Christ and his Church! For there we find the treasure that fills life with joy. I can tell you this from my own experience, thanks to faith, I found the sure foundation of my dreams and the strength to realize them.I have seen great suffering and poverty mar the faces of so many of our brothers and sisters. And yet, for those who stand by Jesus, evil is an incentive to evergreater love. To be set afire by the love of Christ is to be consumed by that fire, to grow in understanding by its light and to be

Transmitting the faith to the ends of the earthBy your Baptism you have become living members of the Church; together we have received the mission to bring the Gospel to everyone. The freshness and enthusiasm of the young makes them a source of support and hope for those nearing the end of their journey. In this blend of different stages in life, the mission of the Church bridges the generations; our faith in God and our love of neighbour are a source of profound unity. This transmission of the faith, the heart of the Church’s mission, comes about by the infectiousness of love. The spread of the faith ‘by attraction’ calls for hearts that are open and expanded by love. And that expansion generates encounter, witness, proclamation; it generates sharing in charity with all those far from the faith, indifferent to it and perhaps even hostile and opposed to it.

Human, cultural and religious settings still foreign to the Gospel of Jesus and to the sacramental presence of the Church represent the extreme peripheries, the ‘ends of the earth’, to which Jesus’ missionary disciples have been sent, with the certainty that their Lord is always with them (cf. Mt 28:20; Acts 1:8). This is what we call the missio ad gentes. The most desolate periphery of all is where humankind, in need of Christ, remains indifferent to the faith or shows hatred for the fullness of life in God.

The ends of the earth nowadays are quite relative and easily ‘navigable’. The digital world with social networks that are so pervasive and readily available, dissolves borders, eliminates distances and reduces differences. However, we could have countless contacts but never share in a true communion of life. To share in the mission to the ends of the earth demands the gift of oneself in the vocation that God, who has placed us on this earth, chooses to give us (cf. Lk 9:23-25).

Bearing witness to loveMany young people find in missionary volunteer work a way of serving the ‘least’ of our brothers and sisters (cf. Mt 25:40), promoting human dignity and witnessing to the joy of love and of being Christians! Missio was created as a means of supporting the preaching of the Gospel to every nation and thus contributing to the human and cultural growth of all those who thirst for knowledge of the truth. The prayers and the material aid generously given and distributed through Missio enable the Holy See to ensure that those who are helped in their personal needs can in turn bear witness to the Gospel. No one is so poor as to be unable to give what they have, but first and foremost what they are.

Pope Francis’ Addresses Youth In Mission Sunday