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St. Mary’s Parish
The Ascension of the Lord May 24, 2020
Year A
Acts 1.1-11
Ephesians 1.17-23
Matthew 28.16-20
“...I am with you always….”
Our Mission: “Together Building Up the Body of Christ”
PARISH TEAM: Fr. Miroslaw (’Mirek’) Kostarzewski, Pastor; Claude Baril, Deacon; Roger Reilander, Deacon; Theresa Hopper, Office Administrator; Charmaine Marcinek, Pastoral Assistant; Susan Johnson and Donna Annett, Administrative Assistants.
6 McMillan Avenue,
Red Deer, AB, T4N 5X8
Ph.: 403-347-3114
Fax: 403-346-5115
Visit us at our website:
stmarysparishreddeer.ca
email:
“...as they were watching, he
was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight”.
SACRAMENTS
1st Communion and Confirmation
Take home sessions on website under Sacraments:
stmarysparishreddeer.ca
Online Baptism registrations are available.
Donation Options for weekly/monthly contributions
to St. Mary’s Parish: -Drop off your envelope at the office
-Mail it to St. Mary’s Parish
-Pre-authorized debit
-E-transfer ([email protected])
-Donate button on our website
Thank you for your support.
St. Mary’s Parish
ALL PUBLIC MASSES ARE CANCELLED
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
The Parish is still open for personal prayer and face to
face Confessions. Please contact the office at
403-347-3114 to make an appointment.
Please adhere to Social Distancing.
St. Mary’s Weekend Masses will be recorded and
posted for Saturday evening and weekend viewing.
OFFICE HOURS
Monday: Closed
Tuesday-Thursday: 10:00am-4:00pm
(closed at noon for lunch)
Friday: 10:00am-Noon
Living in the Word ̶ ̶ The only sure foundation of our lives is
Jesus Christ. He alone brings to light the meaning of our exist-
ence and makes known its definitive direction. Sadly, however,
world events manifest a turning away from God and thus from
hope. They demonstrate that too many people are building their
lives on foundations other than the person and message of Jesus
Christ, which is to say they are constructing the edifice of their
existence upon nothing more than shifting sand (cf. Matthew
7:24-27). (Archbishop Smith, Pastoral Letter, Sept. 14, 2017)
Grace this Week Leader: Lord Jesus, we thank you for your Word. You do not
abandon us, but you have sent the Spirit of Truth to be among us.
(John 14:16-18)
All: We embrace the guidance of your Spirit, Lord.
News from the Archdiocese The Archdiocese will live stream 10:30am Mass from
St. Joseph's Basilica every Sunday.
https://grandinmedia.ca/livestream/
https://www.facebook.com/archedmonton
Please google caedm.ca/quid- for messages from
Archbishop Richard Smith:
Please watch Red Deer Catholic Education Liturgy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5nuwd1UFo
What to do without the Mass
Supporting our Parish
Message to the Elderly & Isolated
Catholic Deaf Community
Message to Catechumens and Candidates
Healthcare Workers
Catholic Educators
Can we Celebrate the Sacraments Virtually?
Online Resources
Please visit The Archdiocese their website at
http://caedm.ca/covid
where they are posting information and resources of use during
the pandemic. They will be updating regularly.
Watch out for Viral Scams Cybercriminals are sending emails, texting and designing
websites to trick people into clicking on malicious links.
Clicking on these seemingly helpful resources might actually
install malware on your computer, which is designed to help
steal personal data and information from users' systems.
Do not click on any links in these type of email messages!
A Message from Archbishop Richard Smith:
Resumption of Public Mass The Catholic Bishops of Alberta remain committed to the
gradual reinstatement of public celebrations of the Mass and
welcome the recent release of the Guidance for Places of
Public Worship document as part of the provincial
government’s relaunch strategy. These guidelines are being
carefully considered by the task force that the Bishops have
established under the direction of Archbishop Richard Smith
of Edmonton and Bishop William McGrattan of Calgary. The task force is drafting for the Bishops a set of directives
for the gradual reintroduction of Masses in public. The
Bishops will present these to Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer
of Health. The proposed directives will take into consideration
the information that will be received from the Telephone
Town Hall with the Premier and the Chief Medical Officer
scheduled for Thursday, May 21. No date will be set for the
resumption of public liturgies in our Catholic churches and
institutions until the Bishops are satisfied that their own
directives can be fully and properly implemented. Any announcement of the date for the gradual reintroduction
will be made at least five days before the first scheduled Mass.
Parishes by then will have received diocesan guidelines which
help ensure the safety of everyone. “It is critical that we understand the risks and take steps in
minimizing the spread of COVID-19 through prudent
planning,” said Bishop McGrattan. “The health and safety
of our parishioners, priests, and church staff are of utmost
importance. Each and every life is a precious gift from God,
and we are called to do everything in our power to protect
them. This has been a tremendous sacrifice on the part of
the faithful who strongly desire to celebrate the Eucharist in
their parish communities. We are grateful for their
cooperation, their patient endurance, and especially
for their prayers.”
The Pope’s Monthly Intention You are invited to answer the Holy Father’s request and join with
people worldwide in praying for the Pope’s intention each month.
May: For Deacons We pray that deacons, faithful in their service to the Word and the
poor, may be an invigorating symbol for the entire Church.
Pope Francis Twitter:
When we can see God reflected in all that exists, our hearts
are moved to praise the Lord for all his creatures and to
worship him in union with them.
Please go to
http://grandinmedia.ca/
for some good
Catholic news stories and
messages from
Archbishop Smith.
St. Mary’s Parish is still collecting food for
the Food Bank. You can drop off food items
at the back entrance bins. Thank you for
remembering the less fortunate in our
community especially at this extremely
challenging and critical time. Thank you.
2020 Baby Bottle Campaign
“Bring Change Now...and into generations to come”
Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre holds its annual Baby
Bottle Campaign from Mother’s Day weekend to Father’s Day
weekend at St. Mary’s Parish. Baby bottles are not available this
year, but if you are interested in donating to this important cause,
please go to their website: www.pregnancycare.ca or call
Janella on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 403-343-1611.
A message from St. Vincent de Paul Society Donate online through CanadaHelps.org, by typing
Saint Vincent Red Deer. Please consider making a donation during this
difficult time if you are able to support us in our work. You can also
mail a cheque to PO BOX 25013 RPO Deer Park, Red Deer, AB,
T4R 2M2. Due to the physical distancing requirements, there are
no furniture donation pick up/drop offs at this time.
If you have questions about SSVP, in how we can help those in need or
how you can help our mission, please contact us
at [email protected] or (403)597-3030.
Star of the North Retreat Centre At the Star of the North, the pandemic has – for the time being –
shut down the in-house retreats and other programs, but it has also
opened the door to a new way of offering retreats.
Starting June 1, retreats will go online. When the pandemic is over,
Star of the North will continue to make most retreats available
online. In the post-pandemic era, retreatants will be able to choose
whether to attend a retreat online or in-house.
Using Zoom software, the programs will continue to employ a high
degree of interaction between retreatants and the retreat facilitator.
Also, check out the new
Star of the North Retreat Centre Youtube channel.
The first online retreat will be held June 5-7 led by three Oblates,
Archbishop Sylvain Lavoie and Fathers Susai Jesu and Mark Blom.
The topic: Living a Balanced Life In Challenging Times.
To see more new online offerings and for registration, visit
starofthenorth.ca
Providence Renewal Centre Curious about The Spiritual Exercises of
St. Ignatius of Loyola?
Providence Renewal Centre is hosting a virtual Come & See on
Tuesday, May 26 at 7:30pm to promote the
Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola program,
scheduled to begin in September 2020.
Meet the facilitator, Faith Nostbakken, and past participants.
To join, RSVP to [email protected] by May 25.
(Include name and email for each person).
Access to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to
all RSVPs on May 26.
Pray with Pope Francis during May, the month of Mary His Holiness Pope Francis has issued a Letter to the Faithful for the
Month of May 2020, in which he encourages us to pray the
Rosary at home, and he includes two prayers that can be
recited after the Rosary.
"It is traditional in this month to pray the Rosary at home within the
family," Pope Francis writes. "The restrictions of the pandemic have
made us come to appreciate all the more this 'family' aspect, also
from a spiritual point of view.
"For this reason, I want to encourage everyone to rediscover the
beauty of praying the Rosary at home in the month of May. This can
be done either as a group or individually; you can decide according
to your own situations, making the most of both opportunities. The
key to doing this is always simplicity, and it is easy also on the
internet to find good models of prayers to follow.
"Dear brothers and sisters, contemplating the face of Christ with the
heart of Mary our Mother will make us even more united as a
spiritual family and will help us overcome this time of trial. I keep all
of you in my prayers, especially those suffering most greatly, and I
ask you, please, to pray for me. I thank you, and with great affection
I send you my blessing."
We fly to your protection,
O Holy Mother of God;
Do not despise our petitions
in our necessities,
but deliver us always
from every danger,
O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.
Can we Celebrate the Sacraments Virtually? Archbishop Smith responds to a question that has
been raised recently:
Is it possible to go to confession online by videoconference or
over the phone?
"The sacramental encounter of Christ is distinct from all other
ways in which we can meet the Lord," he says. "We reach out
to him in prayer, we encounter him in his Word, we are with
him in the presence of the Christian community. That is all real
and wonderful. But in addition to all this, Jesus himself took
the distinct and deliberate measure of instituting the sacraments
as those unique celebrations of faith in which his tangibility
and his visibility now are made available to people of all
generations so that they may themselves have a fully human
personal encounter with the Lord."
“I shall pass this way but
once; any good that I can
do or any kindness I can
show to any human being:
let me do it now.’
Etienne de Grellet
The advertisements on this page will expire June 28, 2020. To advertise on the next series beginning August 30, 2020 please contact the parish office, 347-3114.
BRIAN A. ADAIR
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY
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4921B - 47 ST. Red Deer, AB T4N 1R4
Ph. (403) 342-1777 Fax (403) 341-4775
From the youngest to the oldest,
there is a ministry for you!
Adult Server
Altar Server
Hospitality
Proclaimer
Eucharistic Minister
Hospital Ministry…..
Call the office for details.
PRAYING THE ROSARY Have you been thinking about how
to enrich your prayer life? Come, pray the rosary with us!
No experience necessary! Group recitation of the rosary:
Before daily Masses – in the church Thursday after daily Mass –
in the prayer room Saturday at 4:00pm –
in the prayer room
Support our Pastor through Prayer
“The Seven Petal Apostolate
of Prayer”
Contact Carol at
St. Mary’s Bereavement
Support Ministry
Support for those who are
grieving the loss of a loved one.
For more information about this
ministry, call Cheryl at
403-340-2861
RELIEVE PAIN HEALTH EVALUATION
A-Associated Health & Wellness
Decompression/Acupuncture/Chiropractic
Call 403-342-care(2273)
Mount St. Francis
Retreat Centre
Cochrane, Alberta
403-932-2012
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