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SINCE 1911 OUR FAI TH. OUR FOUND ATI ON.
This Week
Monday, February 22 7:00pm Mass Int Erlinda Andal Tuesday, February 23 6:00am Meeting Men’s Prayer Group (Virtual Meeting) 8:00am Mass Int Ted Fronc 6:00pm Meeting Parish Religious Education (PREP) 7:00pm Mass +Tony Anastasi
Wednesday, February 24
8:00am Mass +Laura Roder 10:00am Funeral + Joanelle Krosby (Private event)
7:00pm Meeting Rite of Catholic Initiation of Adults (Virtual meeting)
7:00pm Mass Int Erlinda Andal
Thursday, February 25 8:00am Mass +All Souls in Purgatory 7:00pm Mass +Ninfa Agbas Isidro
Friday, February 26 8:00am Mass +Lee Ho 7:00pm Mass
Saturday, February 27 8:00am Mass +Sylvia O’Brien
5:00pm Mass +Guieseppe Nardi 7:00pm Mass
Sunday, February 28 9:00am Mass 11:00am Mass +Michel St. Germaine 5:00pm Mass
Pope’s Prayer Intention for February
Universal: Violence against women—We pray for women who are victims of violence, that they may be protected by society and have their sufferings considered and heeded.
NOTE: Saturday 5:00pm and Sunday 9am & 11am Masses are livestreamed
February 21st 2021 First Sunday of Lent
Lent The first reading introduces the theme of covenant. In it we are told of the first in a series of patriarchal covenants which served as a preparation for the covenant on Sinai. That in turn prepared the way for the new covenant God formed with humanity in Christ.
In the Gospel we hear of Jesus’ victorious struggle against evil. Mark makes no reference to the fast of Jesus. In this first struggle Jesus is not God-forsaken as he will be at his last.
Like Noah, the Christian is saved by passage through water – the waters of baptism (second reading). It is through our baptism that we enter into the new covenant relationship with God, and that Christ’s victory over sin and death is communicated to us.
Liturgical Celebrations:
Sunday February 21st— St. Peter Damian
St. Peter Damian is a Doctor of the Church, so honoured for his writings as well as his work for reform and renewal of the Church. Throughout his life he fought for clerical reform and against the laxness and immorality of the clergy of his day. He died in 1072.
Monday February 22nd—Chair of St. Peter
Early Roman Christians celebrated on this day a feast in honour of their departed loved ones, including their predecessors in the faith, Peter and Paul. In the fourth century, when the feast of these two saints was moved to June 29th, the emphasis of this day shifted to celebrating Peter and his successors as bishops of Rome, and expressing gratitude for their service. To celebrate the “Chair” of St. Peter means, then, giving it a strong spiritual significance, and recognizing therein a privileged sign of the love of God.
Tuesday February 23rd—St. Polycarp
Polycarp is one of the Fathers of the early Church, and his letter to the Philippians is one of the early pieces of Christian writing in existence today. Polycarp was martyred for his faith about the year 155, at the age of 86. He is a patron of those suffering from earaches.
W ELCO ME TO S T. A U GUS TI NE ’S PA R I S H St. Augustine's Oblate Parish is a Catholic community centered in Christ and the Eucharist that has a shared mission to ̶ welcome and invite all to participate ̶̶ celebrate in Word and Sacrament ̶ ̶ foster evangelization and spiritual formation ̶ ̶ advocate for social justice ̶ ̶ care for our common home.
SINCE 1911 OUR FAITH. OUR FOUNDATION. OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE
Holy Communion at St. Augustine’s Church on Sunday
Receiving Holy Communion at St. Augustine’s
Beginning Sunday, January 24, those who wish to receive Holy Communion after watching St. Au-gustine’s Mass on line may do so by visiting the Church between 12 Noon and 2:00 pm each Sunday.
Procedure:
• Enter the Parish Centre through the glass door, sanitize your hands and proceed to the front of the Church to receive Holy Communion.
• After receiving Holy Communion, you may say a short prayer of thanks-giving.
• You will then exit the Church through the east side door on Maple Street.
Please note:
Visiting the Church and receiving Holy Communion on Sunday is not meant for prolonged personal prayer. You are welcome to do that on weekdays during office hours.
I hope all will understand the importance of complying to the provincial health restrictions and will co-operate.
Did You Know… Lent
Lent is the 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter observed by the Roman Catholic, Eastern, and some Protestant Churches as a period of penitence and fasting. Sundays aren’t included in the 40-day count.
Since Sundays aren’t included, Lent technically lasts 46 days.
When Lent started, it was only 36 days. Later, it was changed to 40 days.
Why is Lent 40 days? The number 40 is a significant number for Christians. Jesus spent 40 days in a desert. Noah waited 40 days for his ark to float. And Moses, along with his followers, traveled through the wilderness for 40 years before reaching the Promised Land.
REST IN PEACE
+Joanelle Krosby
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WELCOME TO OUR FAITH COMMUNITY
Finnegan Gabriel John Gat
Year 2020 Income Tax Receipts
Year 2020 Income Tax Receipts will be available for pick at the Parish Office during regular office hours until Friday February 26th.
APOSTOLIC LETTER
PATRIS CORDE
OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS
ON THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROCLAMATION OF SAINT JOSEPH AS PATRON OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH
Cont’d from last week…
As he had done with Mary, God revealed his saving plan to Joseph. He did so by using dreams, which in the Bible and among all ancient peoples, were considered a way for him to make his will known.
Joseph was deeply troubled by Mary’s mys-terious pregnancy. He did not want to “expose her to public disgrace”, so he decid-ed to “dismiss her quietly” (Mt 1:19).
In the first dream, an angel helps him resolve his grave dilemma: “Do not be afraid to take
Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” (Mt 1:20-21). Joseph’s response was immediate: “When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord com-manded him” (Mt 1:24). Obedience made it possible for him to surmount his difficulties and spare Mary.
In the second dream, the angel tells Joseph: “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him” (Mt 2:13). Joseph did not hesitate to obey, regardless of the hardship involved: “He got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod” (Mt 2:14-15).
SINCE 1911 OUR FAITH. OUR FOUNDATION. OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE
St. Augustine's Vocation Ministry
Vocation Reflection: “Into the Wilderness” By Jarek Pachocki OMI - Vocation Director
"We might not be able to literally travel to the desert as Jesus did, but we can all create a desert space in our overcrowded lives. We can set aside a place and time to be alone daily with God, a time to distance ourselves from the many noises and voices that bombard our lives every day, a time to hear God’s word, a time to rediscover who we are before God, a time to say, “yes” to God and, “no” to Satan as Jesus did. Welcome to Lent! Welcome to the desert!” Read the reflection here: https://omilacombe.ca/become-an-oblate/
NEXT Vocations Café will take place on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 – 7:00pm Eastern Time I will have a conversation with Fr. Denz Evardone Ba-sada, OMI and Fr. Rockmore Saniel, OMI, vocation directors for Philippines Province. They will be connecting from Manila, Philippines. The conversation will be LIVE streamed on the OMI Lacombe Canada Facebook Page fb.me/missionaryoblates and it will provide an opportunity to ask questions and fully engage in the conversation. Please invite your parishioners to tune in! Thank you for praying for and encouraging vocations to the Oblate religious life! Jarek Pachocki OMI OMI Lacombe Canada - Vocation Director
The St. Augustine's Vocation Ministry Invites you to join us on Wednesday mornings at 8:30AM to pray the Rosary for Vocations. We will do this over a ZOOM video call. If you would like to join us please send an email to Ben Hume at [email protected] and he will put you on the invite list which will contain the Zoom link to join the prayer session. If you are unsure about how to access a ZOOM call please don't hesitate to reach out to Ben and he will help you through the process. The next prayer session
will happen on February 24th at 8:30AM.
Community News…
Census Jobs/Emplois au recensement Schools, housing, health and emergency services are
all planned using census data.
The Government of Canada is hiring approximately 32,000 census employ-ees to count every person in Canada. Pay rates vary by position from $17.83
to $21.77 per hour, plus authorized expenses. Start and end dates vary by position but are between March and July 2021. You must be available to
work flexible hours, mainly during evenings and weekends.
More Info at: www.census.gc.ca
Share Lent Year 2021 This year's Share Lent theme is "Share Love, Share Lent". While we are unable to gather in person, Development & Peace, Caritas Canada, will be hosting a series of webinars to educate us about the work of the partners Development & Peace around the world and to inspire us to make Lent a time of prayerful sacrifice for those who need our support in the global south, especially as the Covid 19 pandemic continues.
Each week our bulletin will feature a preview of the webinar to come. Solidarity Sunday will be, as it is each year, on the 5th Sunday of Lent, March 21st. We encourage you to make a donation to the Share Lent campaign on that Sunday or any time during Lent by going to the online donation page at
https://www.devp.org/en/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=30
https://www.devp.org/en/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=30
Our Lenten journey has begun! Please check out the Share Love, Share Lent page on the Archdiocesan website for the Archbishop's Letter to kick off the campaign, a Solidarity calendar, and other prayer resources for Lent: https://rcav.org/lent/share-lent
Share Lent, week 2: Humanitarian intervention - realities from the field
Join Rebecca Rathbone, animator for South-West Ontario, Dominique Godbout, International programs officer and Abdullah Fuad, representa-
tive of Development and Peace's partner Caritas Bangladesh as they discuss the Rohingya refugee crisis and the way Caritas has been work-
ing to alleviate consequences on affected communities, as well as Devel-opment and Peace's unique philosophy when it comes to humanitarian
responses. Abdullah Fuad is the head of program for the emergency response for the Rohingya refugees based in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Sign up here: http://bit.ly/3aIsokJ to get your Zoom link.
When: Saturday, February 27 at 8:00am (PST).
The webinar will last one hour and will be recorded.
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A Moccasin Story Among the outstanding Oblates whose names must be remembered as missionaries to the Amerindians of British Columbia, we must mention Fathers Paul Durieu, Jean-Marie Le Jacq, Georges Blanchet, Léon Fouquet and Casimir Chirouse. Father Claude Bellot OMI who spent thirty-six years of his life in these missions is less known but remains just as praiseworthy. He was born in France (Haute Loire) in 1847, and arrived on Victoria Island in 1901. He enriched most of the missions of that region, only too happy to bring knowledge of God to these “enfants des bois” (children of the woodlands). His lively pen has left us charming stories of his encounters with the Amerindians. For instance, we are told of an old man’s quandary when the fellow was seeking to marry.
Nessait visits Babine Lake When Nessait, a man of fifty-five years, heard that Bishop Augustin Dotenwill OMI, Bishop of New Westminster, was visiting Babine Lake, he traveled 250 kilometers through the forest, to see the “grand priant” (the great man of prayer). It was this unbeliever’s first visit to a Catholic mission. His astonishment was at its peak when he entered the Church for community prayer. Everything was so clean,
compared to his own home, and the songs were so beautiful! But when he heard speaking about a loving God, about “la terre d’en haut” (The land up above) and about his Mother in heaven, this was a revelation for a man who up to now had been used to converse only about beaver skins, guns, and hunting. So, that very night his name was entered in the register of catechumens. In less than a week he had mastered the catechism, or at least enough to receive Baptism.
Nessait wants to marry Two days before our departure, wrote Father Bellot, Nessait came to see me. His appearance was baffling. After a moment of silence, he pointed to his somewhat worn moccasins. At last he said: “Father, see how pitiful I look. I am old… I want to marry, because I need a woman to make me a pair of moccasins.” I encouraged him as well as I could, and I advised him to make a choice from among the “pearls” of this place. He pointed out one, unattractive to the point of fright, shriveled like an old apple. He may be making the right choice, I thought to myself, if she can provide him with moccasins. Following my advice, Nessait went on to find out more about the intentions of his possible better half. That same night, alas, he returned with a downcast look. Following a long silence, he shared that his heart’s choice was willing to marry him so she could have tea, ground meal, and deer meat, but she could not make moccasins because of her failing eyesight, having become almost blind! Naturally, I encouraged the man to seek elsewhere. He found at last
The next day, he returned beaming. “He will have his moccasins” thought I. In fact, he had found a lady to make those longed-for moccasins. Who was it? The same elderly lady who had claimed to be more or less blind the day before. Today she could see a little better, a tiny bit better, just enough to make one pair of moccasins. The only condition she placed on the marriage was that Nessait make these moccasins last the longest time possible, because she didn’t want to work for too long… She was willing to die, but only of old age, not of overwork. Nessait promised everything, without holding back, and obtained his ageing partner.
Moral of this story Father Bellot concludes: “Formerly, I had read somewhere that four things should be asked of a woman before marriage: that virtue remain in her heart; that modesty shine on her forehead; that softness flow from her lips; and that her hands remain occupied in work. Nessait, however, taught me that one thing only is necessary for the woman: to know how to make moccasins.”