St. Thomas More Catholic Parish

Pastor: Fr. Mitchell Fidyka

Permanent Deacons: Randy Abele, Chris Ashdown

210 Haddow Close, Edmonton, AB, T6R 2P3

Office: 780.434.6313 Rectory: 780.434.9483, Pastor’s Cell: (emergency only) 780.907.7782

Office Hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Website: https://stm.caedm.ca Email: webmaster@stmparish.com

WEEKDAY MASS TIMES Monday 6:00 pm

Tuesday 6:00 pm

Wednesday 9:00 am

Thursday 9:00 am

Friday 9:00 am

Saturday 9:00 am

WEEKEND MASS TIMES Saturday 5:00 pm

Sunday 8:00 am

10:00 am

12:00 pm

5:00 pm

CONFESSION 1 hour before all

morning & evening weekday Masses

ADORATION Tuesday 5:00 pm

1st Fridays 9 am - 3 pm

PLEASE CONTACT THE PARISH OFFICE FOR INFORMATION ABOUT:

Pastoral Care

Sacrament of the Sick: any day at any hour

Regular pastoral visits can be arranged for the homebound

Baptism

See Baptismal brochure in stand or look on website

Parents & godparents are required to take preparation classes

Marriages

Schedule an appointment before you book any other facilities

An approved pre-marriage course is required

A minimum of 4 months of notice is required

First Reconciliation and First Communion

For baptized children 7 years of age and older

Preparation classes are required

See green sacrament brochure for details

Confirmation

For those 11 years of age (by November 2019) and older

Registrations for Confirmation 2019 Program start in May.

Contact youth@stmparish.com for more information.

RCIA and RCIA - Adapted for Children (8-15 yrs.)

For those who wish to learn more about the Catholic faith or

who wish to become Catholic.

Classes start each fall.

PARISH STAFF:

Pastoral Assistants: Monica Bober & Shannon Van Soest

Youth & Family Evangelization Coordinator: Sara Dmitri

Administrative Assistant: Diane Middleton

Music Coordinator: Johanna Dietrich

Business & Volunteer Administrator: Olivia Dias

Interim Bookkeeper: Joey Kolinsky

Custodian: Marian Ragac

Evening Receptionist: Gideon Boyle

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time November 3, 2019

Our Offerings: October 27

Regular Sunday Collection: $17,469.00

Together We Serve: $495.00

PAD Regular Sunday: $23,955.00

Next Sunday Readings:

2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 7, 9-14, Psalm 17,

2 Thessalonians 2:16 - 3:2, Luke 20:27-38

Next Sunday Hymns:

BB 302 Gather the People, BB 479 Ubi Caritas,

BB 435 Seek Ye First,

CiS 98 The Hand of the Lord Feeds Us,

BB 355 Seed Scattered and Sown, BB 385 City of God

Mass Intentions

Mon.

Nov. 4

St. Charles Borromeo

6pm Carlos Palacios †

Stu Brown †

Tues.

Nov. 5 6pm

Tony Briones (Birthday)

Doreen Houle †

Wed.

Nov. 6 9am

Ann Gau

Marty Chuchmuch †

Thurs.

Nov. 7 9am

Connie Deluna

Bernice M. Kolody †

Fri.

Nov. 8 9am

Halbauer Family †

Mary Dechant †

Sat.

Nov. 9

9am Romeo Brisebois †

Thanksgiving †

5pm Jimmy Wong †

Irina Pogrebnoi

Sun.

Nov. 10

8am Manuel Agustin & Teresita Puyaoan †

10am Wilfredo Ycay †

12pm Jozef Gajewski †

5pm Charles Sequeira †

Jesus comes to a sinner’s house and offers him - and us - the opportunity Zacchaeus had, to be saved or to stay lost us.

Celebrating Our Schools

St. Thomas More Parish serves 11 schools. On Sunday, No-

vember 3 we celebrate Catholic Education Sunday with

families from all schools at the 10 am Sunday mass. We

want to include our schools in parish life on an ongoing ba-

sis. This year we will be asking each of our 11 schools to be

featured once or twice at our regular Sunday 12 noon Mass.

The families in each school will be notified and invited to

take part. The first school to participate will be St. Mary on

Sunday, November 17 at the 12 noon mass when teach-

ers, parents and students will be responsible for some liturgi-

cal ministries – including readers and greeters.

By welcoming these students and families to actively partici-

pate in our Sunday liturgies, we hope to encourage them to

attend our parish on a regular basis. Our regular ministry

volunteers will need to adapt as this program continues in

the coming months, but we believe that families and youth

are the future of our Church and that this is a wonderful op-

portunity for us to reach out to them.

As a parish we will benefit from the schools’ enthusiasm and

zest for life. Let us welcome these families and teachers with

Christian openness and love.

It is in this way that we, the parish

community, show grace and are

GrACE as we strive to spread the

message of the Gospel of Christ to

all those in our Catholic school district and beyond.

Please note: November 11th is Remembrance Day

and the office will be closed.

Formed.org

This week our suggestion is for the children of the par-

ish: The Jesus Stories, created to help children apply the les-

sons found in the parables of Jesus. Each 10 minute episode

includes a story situation that children can relate to, a parable

and a thought provoking way to apply it. Our parish access

code is TBQYW9.

“The Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”

Most people on the journey of life stumble or get lost along the way. This Sunday’s Gospel shows us

that even great sinners like the wealthy tax collector, Zacchaeus, can have the heart of a child want-

ing to see who Jesus is. Zacchaeus risks making a fool of himself by climbing a tree. And when Jesus

looked up and spoke to him, he really saw what Jesus was like: this teacher invited himself to stay at

his house! And Jesus called him by name, so he must have known exactly in whose house he would

be a guest. Everyone on the street that day knew too. The murmur was audible: “Gone to a sinner’s

house.”Zacchaeus was transformed by the realization that a man like Jesus would choose to reside

with him. It would change the way he did business. That is the way it always is.

Usher Volunteers Needed

If you attend the Sunday 5pm Mass, please consider helping

out as a youth or adult usher.

For details, see the Head Adult Usher after any 5pm Mass,

or contact Tim Roth at 780-463-5917 or tjroth@shaw.ca

The Living with Christ Sunday Missals for the 2019-2020

year have arrived. They can be purchased after the weekend

Masses at the entrance of the church and from the Parish

office: Sunday Missals ($5), Children's Sunday Missal ($10).

Annual Carmelite Craft Sale

After the Masses on the weekend of November 16/17, we will

be holding a sale of cards and crafts handmade by the Carmelite

sisters. We are so blessed to have them living, praying and

working in our Archdiocese. Come and see their beautiful work

and support them with a purchase or donation.

The St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary

is still seeking donations of gently used Christmas

decorations and jewelry for our annual Christmas Fair.

Please leave your clearly marked donations

in the cloakroom of the church.

We will continue to accept donations until November 17.

St. Thomas More Parish

Quarterly Financial Statement as of Sept. 30, 2019

Collections 298,156

Donations 24,898

Other Income 21,697

Total Income 344,751

Cathedraticum 66,647

Saleries 134,146

Other Expenses 62,275

Total Expenses 263,068

Net Income 81,683

Sunday ♥ Catholic Education ♥ Sunday

Did you know?

There are 5 Precepts of the Catholic Church. These Precepts are

responsibilities we accept and support as faithful Catholics, one of

which is to support the various needs of the Church. Catholic Edu-

cation and its support would come under this particular Precept.

Consequently, parents of school aged children should understand

that if possible they ought to send their children to a Catholic

School. Why? To send your child to a Catholic School is one way

to assist in his or her moral and spiritual formation as well as aca-

demic instruction. A Catholic Education complements the excellent

beginning parents provide in the home as well as through the les-

sons children receive in the Mass on Sunday.

Catholic Schools in Alberta are publicly funded (meaning no extra

tuition nor personal monies are required): this is a gift and an op-

portunity on many levels. As a citizen it is your civic right; as a

Catholic it becomes our faith responsibility. If we as Catholics

choose not to send our children to our Catholic Schools, we should

consider: what message does it send, how does it affect the future

of Catholic Education, and what will it mean for the Church?

Please share this information with family, fellow Parishioners, new

immigrants, and friends. They are welcome to speak to any Parish

or Catholic School for further information. Publicly funded Catho-

lic Education is of inestimable value to our children and great bene-

fit to our society’s future.

Prayers for the Sick

We care about the sick and suffering in our

parish and pray for them daily. These prayers

are included in the intentions of the rosary that

we pray before the Eucharist.

May they receive the peace & healing of the Lord

November 9 – 10th, 2019

Following all Masses

Beautiful artwork will be sold from a local Edmonton artist

Tianna Williams! www.ti-spark.ca

This artwork can fill any office, bedroom

or home with the beauty of our Catholic

faith! This is a great place to buy Confir-

mation gifts, Christmas presents or just a

beautiful Catholic gift!

This is a fundraiser for Young Adults at

St. Thomas More Parish – and will be our

kick off to World Youth Day 2022!

Both cash and credit will be accepted. ALIES and the Back Porch seek compassionate communicators to apply for the position of

Volunteer Coordinator. Located across from the abortion

clinic in Edmonton, the Back Porch exists to present the truth

about abortion with love and to connect women and men with

community supports. Find out more at alies.ca/career-

opportunities.To apply, send your resume and cover letter to:

executivedirector@alies.ca.

for those from St Thomas More who have recently passed away

Betty Wenger

Theresa Louise Walton

Matthew Patrick Monaghan

John Kuspira

Doreen Ann Houle

Garnet Kingsley McKee

May God grant them eternal rest.

Let us Pray

The next Marriage Preparation program at STM will

take place March 13, 14, and 15, 2020. For information and

to register, email stm.marriagepreparation@gmail.com.

Please indicate your names, and

anticipated wedding date and location

when emailing for information.

Couples may also complete Marriage Preparation through

Catholic Engaged Encounter:

http://ceewest.com/communities/edmonton/

Parish Directories

For anyone who had their picture taken for our Parish

Directory, please stop by the office to pick up your copy.

Calling all Men of St. Thomas More Parish…

Would you like to deepen your spirituality to combat

the crisis of faith in our world?

Fostering Fellowship, Conversion, Faith, Leadership,

and Accompaniment, so that all parish men are more ful-

ly Christ-led, Christ-fed, and hope filled. The goal is to be-

come better husbands, fathers, leaders and friends.

If you are interested or would like more information

on the possibility of forming a parish group contact

Wayne Limming via email at limming.wayne@shaw.ca.

Become Catholic! Be a Sponsor!

R.C.I.A. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

For Adults wishing to be initiated into the

Catholic Church, RCIA will run from

September 2019 to May 2020

For those wishing to become Catholic and for practicing

Catholics who wish to be a Sponsor for those entering the

Church, this is a r ichly rewarding faith journey as we all

get to know the God Who is Love Itself.

A handout depicting the four-phase RCIA

Process is located at the entrance to the Church.

For more information call the Parish Office at 780-434-6313

or email stm.rcia.coord@stmparish.com

Registration forms are available at the Parish Office

UNPLANNED the Prolife movie will be shown at Holy

Family Parish, St. Albert on Nov. 7 at 7pm. All are welcome.

Refreshments provided by CWL.

Mature subject matter—parental discretion advised.

Lost Item?

We have quite a collection of small, semi valuable items that

have been turned into the parish office. If you are wondering

whatever happened to your keys, eye glasses, earring, prayer

book, rosary etc. then perhaps we have them! Please stop by

the office to identify and we will return it to you. We will be

donating the remaining items by the end of 2019.

Sacrament of Baptism

Congratulations to the Newly Baptized: In October,

the following children entered into the community

of the Trinity through the Sacrament of Baptism:

Zak Benjamin, Sean Dwayne, Luke Chidiebube,

Piper Grace, Harrison Sidonie, Olivia Jean,

Maisie Chrisarah, Rosalyn Mae Halley, Riley Elysse

Please remember our new little brothers and sisters in your prayers

Women of Dignity Conference: Be His, Be Brave, Be You

The 2019 Catholic Family Ministries Women’s Conference is a weekend with Mary Bielski, national speaker and evangelist. She has spoken to more than 100,000 Catholics around the nation at retreats and conferences, and has appeared on Cath-olic radio and television interviews including EWTN and Catho-lic Crossroads Radio. Mary draws her audience to the beauty of our Catholic faith, a deeper love for Christ, the Eucharist, and the call to holiness. Join us November 29-30 at Holy Trinity Parish, Spruce Grove. For more information, and to register, please visit catholicfamilyministries.com SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL –

Roger Plouffe, a parishioner from St. Thomas More who is our contact in Fort Good Hope, for the North of 60 Program would like to thank everyone who made it possible to send a Sea-can to the community last spring. It was filled with food, clothing, and other supplies. The sea-can will stay there and be used for storage.

Thank you to the Knights of Columbus, the CWL and all of our parishioners who donated or volunteered in any way. Of note, members from our Youth Group painted a beautiful mural on one side, which will be blessed by the community on Dec 9th, the Feast of the Immaculate Concep-tion. This mural has received many comments and people are especially impressed when they find out who the paint-ers are. They are recruiting local artists to paint the other side this spring. Many thanks to Lou Normand who is the coordinator for North of 60 for St. Thomas More Parish.

If you wish to make a donation to help one of our needy families, or if you have furniture or household items that you no longer need, please call 780-471-5577. If you know of someone who needs help or want to learn more about SSVP please visit our website at www.ssvpedmonton.ca