T h e G o o d S h e p h e r d P a r i s h
The Good Shepherd Parish is a Catholic community rooted in the Gospel where all are invited to encounter Christ, grow in holiness, and proclaim His Good News to the world.
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Email: [email protected] Website: www.thegoodshepherdparish.com
Mass Intentions
Saturday 17 October – Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:00 pm † Deceased members of the Periera family
† Conor J. Daly requested by Dr. G.M. Lusignan
† Theodora Morgan requested by Willy Algan
Sunday 18 October – Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:00 am † Abla Hokayem requested by Fadia Abdelnour
† Antoine and Marie Abdelnour requested by Fadia Abdelnour Intentions of Fady Abdelnour requested by Fadia Abdelnour
Intentions of the Meuse and Capo families requested by the Magmanlac and Sy Families 11:15 am † Fawzi and Najla El Khoury
Intentions of the Seangio family
Tuesday 20 October
† Lucille and Alvarez Pilon requested by the Louis-Seize family
Intentions of Sr. Maria of the Merciful Jesus requested by Donna and Joe Verner Wednesday 21 October | No intention
Thursday 22 October | No intention Friday 23 October
† Jacques Robichon requested by the family
Saturday 24 October – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:00 pm All living and deceased members and Spiritual Advisors of the
Catholic Women’s League
Sunday 25 October – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:00 am † Guenter Andrews requested by Myrna Andrews
11:15 am For Our Parishioners
Tuesday 27 October
† Margaret and Norman Louis-Seize requested by the family
Wednesday 28 October | No intention
Thursday 29 October | No intention
Friday 30 October
† Edgar Storie requested by the Storie family
Healing of Charito Ong requested by the Magmanlac family
Saturday 31 October – Solemnity of All Saints
5:00 pm Mass of Special Intentions requested by Dr. G.M. Lusignan
Sunday 01 November – Solemnity of All Saints 9:00 am For Our Parishioners
11:15 am Intention of Dennis Algan requested by Willy Algan
† Deceased members of the McNeely and Hall families
† Deceased members of the Knights of Columbus
Update from the Finance Council:
The Finance Council met last week to review the parish’s financial position and discuss issues related to the operation of the church, rectory and property. As of the end of September, the parish is running a very small surplus – $38 – for its operations this year. Our revenues are down by $36,000 compared to the same point last year, while expenditures are down by $32,000. While the situation looks fairly good right now, there are a number of reasons why we do not think that this situation will improve.
1. Parish expenditures are expected to increase over the remainder of the year, especially compared to levels seen in the Spring and Summer:
• Payments to Landtech, which performs both summer and winter maintenance on the property, have restarted after the parish received a summer break from payments.
• Youth ministry and custodial expenses are resuming after these services were reduced during the pandemic.
• Depending on how quickly the cold weather arrives, heating costs for the parish will certainly increase.
2. While parish revenues have stabilized, they may not be sufficient to match our higher expenses.
• In positive news, Enbridge will be extending its use of the parking lot as a staging area for work that is being done across Innes Road and has paid the parish another $6,700 to stay until December. In total, the parish has received almost $20,000 for the use of the parking lot.
• We are still waiting on roughly $11,000 in payments from the federal government in respect of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy. These claims are being handled by the Diocese.
• Most concerning is the impact of COVID-19 on Christmas masses, which are an important source of revenue every year, especially from people who are not regular parishioners.
Given this situation, we will need your continued generous support. Please remember that you can make donations at the parish or online from the parish website.
We will continue to provide updates on a monthly basis for your awareness. Faithfully yours,
Sean Keenan
Chair, Good Shepherd Finance Council
Before registering for Sunday Mass, or considering attending a weekday Mass, everyone is to please read the Updated Vs 4.1 “Welcome Back to The Good Shepherd Church!” document, found on our homepage. This document details all information you need to follow when attending any Mass at our church during these days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please share all information in this bulletin with your fellow parishioners, particularly those who do not have access to the internet.
WEEKDAY MASSES
Current schedule**: Tuesday and Friday at 9:00 am ** NEW INFORMATION ** For those wishing to attend either weekday Mass, please note, while there is no requirement to register in advance for the Mass, everyone must register on arrival. The front door will be opened at 8:30 am and you will be asked to provide your name and telephone number to Bonnie who will enter this information on our registration form. This form will be held for 30 days should it be needed for contact tracing; forms will be shredded after 30 days.
** Please read the “Welcome Back to The Good Shepherd Church” document, on our home page, prior to coming to Church.
You are all requested to please follow our parish COVID-19 protocols:
1. take your temperature at home to confirm you are well enough to attend Mass
2. **wear a mask thatsecurely covers the nose, mouth and chin; no gloves when receiving Holy Communion;
3. **REMINDER: NO SINGING PERMITTED
4. enter Church by the Main/Front door
5. on arrival, use the touchless hand sanitizer on the wall
6. **REMINDER: Washrooms are to be used only in urgent cases; if you have used the washroom, please ensure all washroom spaces are wiped down**
7. provide your name and telephone number to Bonnie at the registration table
8. take a seat in the Main Worship Space, ensuring social distancing between you and others who are not in your group (at least three (3) seat separation between groups)
9. **REMINDER: please depart the Church immediately following conclusion of Mass,
ensuring social distancing is maintained at all times
10. depart Church by the side door (down cloakroom hallway)
**Due to COVID-19 requirements to clean between Masses we are unable to hold more weekday Masses.
ALL WEEKEND
SUNDAY MASSES
*** Please read the “Welcome Back to The Good Shepherd Church” document located on our home page
prior to registering for Sunday Mass.
ONLINE REGISTRATION for all weekend Sunday Masses opens on Sunday evening and closes at noon on Saturday.
COVID-19 protocols to follow when attending Mass in our church:
1. everyone who enters our church must wear a mask that securely covers the nose, mouth and chin;
2. after confirming temperature and registration, ushers will seat all attendees, according to social distancing policy. 3. the cantor is the only person singing at Mass; the assembly
is to please remain in silent spiritual union with the hymns. 4. all may respond to the spoken prayers throughout the Mass. 5. there is no passing of the collection basket; please place
your envelope or your offering in the box (at the Baptismal Font) as you exit the worship space after Mass ends; 6. please wait for the ushers to guide the assembly, row by
row, for the distribution of Holy Communion; no gloves are to be worn when receiving Holy Communion.
7. Please wait for the ushers to guide the row by row exit, immediately after Mass ends, out the side door (adjacent to the cloakroom), ensuring social distancing is maintained. When attending Mass in church, if you have hearing challenges, please tune into
100.7 FM on your radio to pray along.
M ASS O N YO U TU BE
Our parish Sunday Mass will continue to be on The Good Shepherd Parish YouTube channel each Sunday. Select the link on our parish homepage:
https://www.thegoodshep herdparish.com/
Please share this information with your fellow parishioners, family and friends who are unable, for health reasons or church space limitations, to join us in the church.
Act of Spiritual Communion
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there, and I unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
Missionary Month Prayer
God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit overflowing source of the mission,
help us to understand that life is mission, gift and commitment. May Mary, our intercessor,
help each one of us to be prophetic witnesses to the Gospel, by constantly answering:
Here I am, Lord, send me! Amen.
World Mission Sunday 2020
“Faith, in fact, by its very nature, is missionary and the celebration of World Mission Sunday serves to keep this essential dimension of the Christian faith alive in all the faithful.”
Collection to support mission lands
The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which oversees the missionary work and related activities of the Catholic Church worldwide, said it also “relies on the sense of communion and co-responsibility of the bishops for the collection of that Day in favour of the Pontifical Mission Societies, which work in a universal context for an equitable support of the Churches in mission territories”.
Pope’s message **
On Pentecost Sunday, May 31, Pope Francis released his message for this year’s celebration (**complete text of the Pope’s message on page five and six of this bulletin). Based on the theme taken from the Book of Isaiah, “Here am I, send me”, the Pope’s message says that the Covid-19 pandemic is an opportunity for mission and service to others.
World Mission Day, or Mission Sunday, was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1926, to remind Catholics about their commitment and support to the missionary work of the Church through prayer and sacrifice.
Collection of 10/11 October 2020 Envelopes and loose ... $1648.00 PAC ... $2835.00
Total ... $4483.00
Remaining Church Collections for Autumn 2020
Several collections that would normally take place in the Lenten Season and before the end of the Pastoral Year, were deferred due to COVID-19 restrictions. This means there’s a larger number in the fall of this year. In order to assist you in your giving plan, here is the list of remaining regular and re-scheduled collections:
Ø Sunday, 18 October 2020: World Mission Sunday
Ø Sunday, 15 November 2020: World Day of the Poor to benefit the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace-Caritas Canada (rescheduled by the Archdiocese from the Fifth Sunday of Lent)
Thank you for your consideration of these important extra collections – your generosity is deeply appreciated and welcomed by the respective charities.
Please pray for those who have requested our prayers:
Deacon Dan Careau Doreen Dumont Bruce Hodgins Jean-Ella Lemire Joe MacDonell Michael Nortey Rosi Saunders Jean Scharf Jim Stroeder
➢ A number of parishes in the east-end have gotten together to take a day of prayer at the vigil site at Bank and Queen Streets on Sunday the 18th October from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. Please contact Lyse Charron
613-830-7721 or [email protected].
➢ This year due to COVID-19 it has been decided that The Good Shepherd Parish will participate through prayer by praying at home on Sunday the 25th October. Parishioners are asked to choose a half hour
between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm. The aim is to have someone in prayer continuously. Please contact Seán O’Carroll by email at: [email protected] or by phone at: 613-824-0284; he will maintain a roster so that continuous prayer can be assured.
What is 40 DAYS FOR LIFE™
The worldwide 40 DAYS FOR LIFE campaign seeks to unite God's people in prayer to end abortion, through prayer, fasting and peaceful vigil. We seek to change hearts and encourage a culture of life. A prayer vigil will be held daily from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm at Bank and Queen Streets downtown. The campaign began on Wednesday 23 September and runs for 40 days.
NATIONAL PASTORAL INITIATIVE FOR LIFE AND THE FAMILY
God, one God, holy and almighty, humble and merciful, break down the idols we have set before you. Remind us of their irrelevance and draw us into the truth that you are the only God there is, the only God to offer us the fullness of life. Amen.
(18 October 2020)
How to donate…
You are asked to consider making a separate allotment in support of any of the extra collections. Donations may be made via one of the following ways:
➢ a separate cheque in any weekly envelope (specify the collection on the memo line of your cheque);
➢ a separate donation placed in the designated basket at the Baptismal Font; or
➢ contact Bonnie at the Parish office (613-824-4394) to arrange an added one-time amount, for these worthy charities, to your Pre-Authorized Contribution.
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On
Friday 23 October at 7:30 p.m.
the
Third Annual FallFest
will be
live-streamed from Annunciation of the Lord
Parish.
It’s an event where youth come together
to have fun, meet friends, and discover
how much they are loved by Christ in a
non-threatening environment. It will
include contemporary Praise and Worship
music led by Kristen Klein-Meuse and one
of Ottawa’s most amazing live bands.
Our guest speaker is Francesca
Mastroeni, a Chaplain in the Canadian
Army who will talk about “being saved in
the time of COVID”.
To learn more about FallFest and to
register:
http://fallfestottawa.ca/
Please register in advance.
News from the Knights of ColumbusCouncil 9005 Good Shepherd Parish
John 14:16 says "I am the way, the truth and the life". This is my favourite scripture quote and today I would like to focus on the word "life". Last week the 40 DAYS FOR LIFE Campaign kicked into action. For many, life is cheap and measured in economic terms; you are as good as the function you perform. But this is not the mind of God. Man was made in the image and likeness of God. Remember the famous "Imago Dei" principal from the Book of Genesis. At the moment of conception there is divine intervention. This human soul has the capacities to think, to reason and to choose. These are immaterial powers that show that God is the author of life. He gives life and withdraws it in His time.
But these days many people take matters into their own hands. Abortion is rampant and according to our Supreme Knight, right now there are more people killed by abortion than by COVID-19. The Knights cooperate with many Pro-Life groups in the fight against abortion. Last week our Council participated in the Pro-Life Chain held at Orléans and St. Joseph. They are also running a programme of continuous prayer in the battle against this grave and serious sin. Abortion is murder with a small "m". It is hardly noticed.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world knows. The Pro-Life movements, while they have not won the war against abortion, yet they certainly have won battles. This movement has made gains on social media such as FaceBook. Recently we witness efforts to appoint a woman, who is a devout Catholic, to serve as a Supreme Court Justice in the United States. Such an appointment would be a huge victory for life and would threaten to displace the Roe versus Wade abortion law.
Finally remember the words of the Book of Daniel: "CHOOSE LIFE'. James P. Tierney, Faith Director KofC
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POPE’S PRAYER INTENTION FOR OCTOBER 2020:
The Laity’s Mission in the Church –
We pray that by the virtue of baptism, the laity, especially women,
may participate more in areas of responsibility in the Church.
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR WORLD MISSION DAY 2020
Here am I, send me (Is 6:8)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I wish to express my gratitude to God for the commitment with which the Church throughout the world carried out the Extraordinary Missionary Month last October. I am convinced that it stimulated missionary conversion in many communities on the path indicated by the theme: “Baptized and Sent: the Church of Christ on Mission in the World”.
In this year marked by the suffering and challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic, the missionary journey of the whole Church continues in light of the words found in the account of the calling of the prophet Isaiah: “Here am I, send me” (6:8). This is the ever new response to the Lord’s question: “Whom shall I send?” (ibid.). This invitation from God’s merciful heart challenges both the Church and humanity as a whole in the current world crisis. “Like the disciples in the Gospel we were caught off guard by an unexpected, turbulent storm. We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together, each of us in need of comforting the other. On this boat… are all of us. Just like those disciples, who spoke anxiously with one voice, saying ‘We are perishing’ (v. 38), so we too have realized that we cannot go on thinking of ourselves, but only together can we do this” (Meditation in Saint Peter’s Square, 27 March 2020). We are indeed frightened, disoriented and afraid. Pain and death make us experience our human frailty, but at the same time remind us of our deep desire for life and liberation from evil. In this context, the call to mission, the invitation to step out of ourselves for love of God and neighbour presents itself as an opportunity for sharing, service and intercessory prayer. The mission that God entrusts to each one of us leads us from fear and introspection to a renewed realization that we find ourselves precisely when we give ourselves to others.
In the sacrifice of the cross, where the mission of Jesus is fully accomplished (cf. Jn 19:28-30), God shows us that his love is for each and every one of us (cf. Jn 19:26-27). He asks us to be personally willing to be sent, because he himself is Love, love that is always “on mission”, always reaching out in order to give life. Out of his love for us, God the Father sent his Son Jesus (cf. Jn 3:16). Jesus is the Father’s Missionary: his life and ministry reveal his total obedience to the Father’s will (cf. Jn 4:34; 6:38; 8:12-30; Heb 10:5-10). Jesus, crucified and risen for us, draws us in turn into his mission of love, and with his Spirit which enlivens the Church, he makes us his disciples and sends us on a mission to the world and to its peoples.
“The mission, the ‘Church on the move’, is not a programme, an enterprise to be carried out by sheer force of will. It is Christ who makes the Church go out of herself. In the mission of evangelization, you move because the Holy Spirit pushes you, and carries you” (Senza di Lui non possiamo fare nulla: Essere missionari oggi nel mondo. Una conversazione con Gianni Valente, Libreria Editrice Vaticana: San Paolo, 2019, 16-17). God always loves us first and with this love comes to us and calls us. Our personal vocation comes from the fact that we are sons and
daughters of God in the Church, his family, brothers and sisters in that love that Jesus has shown us. All, however, have a human dignity founded on the divine invitation to be children of God and to become, in the sacrament of Baptism and in the freedom of faith, what they have always been in the heart of God.
Life itself, as a gift freely received, is implicitly an invitation to this gift of self: it is a seed which, in the baptized, will blossom as a response of love in marriage or in virginity for the kingdom of God. Human life is born of the love of God, grows in love and tends towards love. No one is excluded from the love of God, and in the holy sacrifice of Jesus his Son on the cross, God conquered sin and death (cf. Rom 8:31-39). For God, evil – even sin – becomes a challenge to respond with even greater love (cf. Mt 5:38-48; Lk 22:33-34). In the Paschal Mystery, divine mercy heals our wounded humanity and is poured out upon the whole universe. The Church, the universal
sacrament of God’s love for the world, continues the mission of Jesus in history and sends us everywhere so that, through our witness of faith and the proclamation of the Gospel, God may continue to manifest his love and in this way touch and transform hearts, minds, bodies, societies and cultures in every place and time.
Mission is a free and conscious response to God’s call. Yet we discern this call only when we have a personal relationship of love with Jesus present in his Church. Let us ask ourselves: are we prepared to welcome the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives, to listen to the call to mission, whether in our life as married couples or as
consecrated persons or those called to the ordained ministry, and in all the everyday events of life? Are we willing to be sent forth at any time or place to witness to our faith in God the merciful Father, to proclaim the Gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ, to share the divine life of the Holy Spirit by building up the Church? Are we, like Mary, the Mother of Jesus, ready to be completely at the service of God’s will (cf. Lk 1:38)? This interior openness is essential if we are to say to God: “Here am I, Lord, send me” (cf. Is 6:8). And this, not in the abstract, but in this chapter of the life of the Church and of history.
Understanding what God is saying to us at this time of pandemic also represents a challenge for the Church’s mission. Illness, suffering, fear and isolation challenge us. The poverty of those who die alone, the abandoned, those who have lost their jobs and income, the homeless and those who lack food challenge us. Being forced to observe social distancing and to stay at home invites us to rediscover that we need social relationships as well as our communal relationship with God. Far from increasing mistrust and indifference, this situation should make us even more attentive to our way of relating to others. And prayer, in which God touches and moves our hearts, should make us ever more open to the need of our brothers and sisters for dignity and freedom, as well as our responsibility to care for all creation. The impossibility of gathering as a Church to celebrate the Eucharist has led us to share the experience of the many Christian communities that cannot celebrate Mass every Sunday. In all of this, God’s question: “Whom shall I send?” is addressed once more to us and awaits a generous and convincing response: “Here am I, send me!” (Is 6:8). God continues to look for those whom he can send forth into the world and to the nations to bear witness to his love, his deliverance from sin and death, his liberation from evil
(cf. Mt 9:35-38; Lk 10:1-12).
The celebration of World Mission Day is also an occasion for reaffirming how prayer, reflection and the material help of your offerings are so many opportunities to participate actively in the mission of Jesus in his Church. The charity expressed in the collections that take place during the liturgical celebrations of the third Sunday of October is aimed at supporting the missionary work carried out in my name by the Pontifical Mission Societies, in order to meet the spiritual and material needs of peoples and Churches throughout the world, for the salvation of all. May the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of Evangelization and Comforter of the Afflicted, missionary disciple of her Son Jesus, continue to intercede for us and sustain us.
Rome, Saint John Lateran, 31 May 2020, Solemnity of Pentecost
We Can and Must do Much Better – Religious Leaders in Canada denounce Bill
C-7, “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)”
Wednesday, October 14 2020
Ottawa – Today, more than 50
religious leaders from across
Canada released an open letter to
all Canadians in opposition to Bill
C-7 An Act to amend the Criminal
Code (medical assistance in
dying). This ecumenical and interfaith message is a response by religious leaders to
the legislation introduced by the federal government on 5 October 2020 which seeks
to expand the eligibility criteria for euthanasia and assisted suicide (euphemistically
called “medical assistance in dying”) by removing the “reasonable foreseeability of
natural death” criterion currently in the Criminal Code, and by loosening some of the
existing “safeguards” allowing patients whose death is “reasonably foreseeable” to
waive final consent to receiving euthanasia by making an advance directive.
The religious leaders said in part: “We are obliged to express our strong concern and
opposition to Bill C:7 which, among other things, expands access to euthanasia and
assisted suicide to those who are not dying. It perplexes our collective minds that we
have come so far as a society yet, at the same time, have so seriously regressed in
the manner that we treat the weak, the ill, and the marginalized.”
The message reflects a unity of thought and concern among Canada’s diverse
religious communities in the face of human suffering, dying and death, and the
inadequacy of euthanasia and assisted suicide as a response. The religious leaders
further expressed: “We are convinced that a robust palliative care system available to
all Canadians is a much more effective response to suffering and to protecting the
sacred dignity of the human person. Palliative care addresses pain in a loving and
caring environment, wherein people go out of their way to offer comfort and solace. It
makes everyone into a better person.”
The development of the message was initiated by the Canadian Conference of
Catholic Bishops (CCCB), Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka, CM, Ph.D., the Canadian
Council of Imams (CCI), the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and Ahmadiyya
Muslim Jama’at Canada.
Media is encouraged to direct inquiries to any of the endorsing signatories to the
message.
https://www.cccb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/MAID_Religious-Leaders-in-Canada-oppose-Bill-C-7_EN_FINAL.pdf
