Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 27, 2019

Saturday, October 26, 2019 Vigil Mass of The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

5:15 p.m. Sadie B. Tager - Birthday Remembrance Requested by her Son, Carim Tager and Family

Sunday, October 27, 2019 The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

8:30 a.m. CSM David Smith Requested by St. Ambrose Parish

11:15 a.m. Frank and Amelia Alves - Anniversary Remembrance Requested by Family

Monday, October 28, 2019 Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles

7:30 a.m. Pro Populo

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 Weekday

7:00 p.m. Mass at St. James Church

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Weekday

7:30 a.m. Pro Populo

Thursday, October 31, 2019 Weekday

7:00 p.m. Mass at St. James Church

Friday, November 1, 2019 All Saints Day

7:30 a.m. Pauline Laroche Requested by the St. Andre Extended Family

Saturday, November 2, 2019 All Souls’ Day The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed

9:00 a.m. All Souls’ Mass at St. Ambrose

5:15 p.m. For All the Faithful Departed

Sunday, November 3, 2019 The Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

8:30 a.m. For All the Faithful Departed

11:15 a.m. For All the Faithful Departed

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Commitment Weekend

Last week we asked all parishioners to open

their hearts, minds and spirits to the Grateful for God’s Providence Campaign. Our life long parishioner Jackie Robert in her remarks to

the parish community asked all of us to prayerfully decide on how each of us would participate in this important campaign for

the Diocese of Providence and our parish of St. Ambrose. It is may desire to have all

parishioners to express their Gratitude for God’s Providence and pledge/contribute as generously as possible. This weekend I will be speaking to the community concerning

this important campaign and what it means for the future of St. Ambrose Parish. This is a

graced opportunity to ensure the future of St. Ambrose and continuing the beautiful

tradition of living, celebrating and handing on our faith in Christ the Lord.

Prayer for

Grateful for God’s Providence Campaign

Almighty God, your Son Jesus called us to form a Church that is one, holy, catholic and apostolic, and your Holy Spirit guides us on our way. Ever grateful for your providence in our lives, we ask

your blessing upon our campaign and upon all the work we do for your Church. Give us a joyful spirit, a confident outlook, and a renewed zeal as we live

and share the joy of the Gospel.Help us to remember that without you, we can do

nothing, but that with you,all things are

possible.This we ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 27, 2019

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Week of October 20, 2019

Weekly Budget $ 3,129.00 EFT $ 665.00 Maintenance $ 79.00 Poor Box $ 75.00 Mass Intentions/Votive Candles $ 41.00 World Mission Sunday $ 651.00

As always, Thank you for your generosity!

We depend solely upon your weekly support to meet our weekly parish expenses.

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2019-2020 Faith Formation Grades K-4

Please check the schedule for grade level class meeting dates. Also, a reminder...bring your folder to class with your completed

home-study lesson. Questions...please contact Robin Carney at rcarney@stambrosechurchri.org

Parking Reminder For the Safety of our Young parishioners and courtesy to our Parishioners using the handi-

capped parking area.

We ask that you please adhere to the following procedures for class drop-off and pick-up. Please remember to courteous to

our senior members of the community.

The lot next to the Parish Hall is reserved for handicap parking only.

In addition, the cemetery is not a throughway. Please refrain from driving into this lot during

class drop-off and pick-up unless you need to utilize handicap parking.

We ask that you park in the parish’s main parking lot which is to the left of the Church and parish office and walk your children to the parish hall for classes. For the safety of all children, a parent

or guardian must pick-up at the parish hall.

Fall is here. Crisp air, leaves falling...

Don’t let our parishioners fall out of touch. Keep them connected...

If you know of someone who is confined to their home or a nursing facility, please contact the

Rectory to arrange for a weekly bulletin to be mailed to them and/or arrange for a pastoral visit.

Fall Clean Up October 16– 31

St. Ambrose Cemetery and St. James Cemetery

The Fall Cemetery Clean-Up is undertaken to ensure the dignity of the final resting place for our faithful departed. Thus those arrangements or decorations that have deteriorated or are not appropriate to the

season will be removed. St. Ambrose and St. James Cemeteries will not be responsible for decorative

items lost or removed during the fall clean up.

Cheer on the St. Ambrose–St. James

Basketball Team

at the 2019 Turkey Tourney

November 8-11th at

St. Joseph School , West Warwick

Stop by for a treat at St. Ambrose on Halloween

Thursday, October 31st

Candy will be distributed at the side door from

5:30pm to 8:00pm

Happy Halloween

St. James Parish Bazaar

and Giant Flea Market

November 16, 2019

9am to 3pm

The cold weather is coming and there is a need for coats for men and women who have no shelter in the Woonsocket area. Please consider donating gently used

winter coats for our brothers and sisters in need. Donations can be

placed in the box inside the Church

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Join the St. Ambrose Parish Youth Choir

for Christmas — Rehearsals begin November 2nd

All children and teens who have not yet received the Sacrament of Confirmation

are welcome!!

Beginning November 2nd, rehearsals will be held every Saturday at 4:15PM leading up until Christmas.

We would love to expand our group this year!

Please see Christiana Caprarelli in the choir loft after mass.

She can also be contacted at CRodi2189@Yahoo.com if you’d like to join us or if you have any questions!

Our Lady’s Hanging Lamp

In Thanksgiving for 65 Years of Marriage

Requested by a Parishioner

Please keep this intention in your prayers

All Soul’s Day Mass In Remembrance of All Faithful Departed

Saturday, November 2, 2019 9:00am Mass at St. Ambrose

Sunday, November 3, 2019 , 11:15am Mass Special Remembrance Mass

to commemorate All Faithful Departed, and, in a special way, those parishioners

who passed during the period of November 2018 to October 2019

Congratulations to our newly confirmed parishioners of St. Ambrose and St. James

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle them in the fire of your love.

Grady Joseph Boyle Alexandra Catherine Cioffi Matthew Joseph Colando Joaquim (Jack) Anthony Correia Zavion Alberto Andrew Cosme Scott Michael Coughlin Mia Barbara Daly Preston Sebastian DeSousa Emily Cecilia Duclos Sarah Sebastian Kennedy

Isabella Teresa Lamoureux Jonathan George L’Esperance Isabel Vitus Lopes Hailey Rose Menard Chloe Clare Murphy Olivia Jane Nault Patrick Noel Riordan Caden Joseph Specht Nathaniel Joseph Turcotte Caden Michael Watters

Tyler Brendan Dickinson Savannah Brendan Dumas Myles Cecilia Dupre Ian Sebastian Lanctot Jacob Christopher Lima Caidan Rocco Morin

Blessings to the newly wedded

Jessica Gianetti & Kristopher McCabe

The St. Ambrose Parish community extends its congratulations to Jessica & Kristopher and their families.

“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. This is my commandment: love one

another as I love you.” John 15:11-12

Catholic education has been part of the Church’s ministry since Jesus ascended into

heaven forty days after his resurrection. “Go, therefore, and teach all nations,” Jesus instructs his disciples as he takes leave of them. The Catholic Church has taken this command quite

seriously over the centuries. In hard times, parents and grandparents handed on their simple faith by the example of their own prayers and their own dedicated lives. In historic times,

abbeys and universities made the Catholic faith the stuff of grand discussions and international debates. For many centuries all education was in the hands of the Church. The well-to-do could go off to scholarly academies maintained by the Catholic Church’s many religious orders. The not-so-well-to-do had to rely on heroes of the faith like St. John Baptist de la Salle who was moved

by the plight of the poor who seemed so "far from salvation" both in this world or the next. LaSalle determined to put his own talents and his own fine education and family finances to work at the service of children who were "often left to themselves and badly brought up.”

LaSalle faced two challenges. He had to educate children but he also had to educate

teachers. It is little known that LaSalle first had a hand in instituting a congregation of religious women, the Sister of the Child Jesus. It is of course much better known that LaSalle instituted the Brothers of the Christian Schools (FSC), the first religious congregation not composed of

ordained clergy. The FSCs staff LaSalle Academy in Providence today. The education of these brothers themselves resulted in the formation of what history understands to be the first normal school. LaSalle’s insights and energy were happily duplicated throughout Catholic Europe and

the plethora of religious congregations of men and women that characterized Catholic education until quite recently flourished throughout Europe and the New World. Probably most readers of the Quiet Corner today owe their faith formation to a local congregation of sisters or brothers.

The face of the Catholic Church in America altered drastically after the Second Vatican

Council in the 1960s. Parish liturgies, Biblical studies, Ecumenical efforts, diocesan and parish administration and social services encountered new and often successful opportunities. The

same cannot be said for local Catholic schools. At one time sixty-five percent of the parishes in the Providence diocese maintained a Catholic school. This percentage ranked third highest on a nationwide scale. The wholesale withdrawal of religious men and women from the classroom on

the local level drastically transformed the face of Catholic education in the diocese of Providence. Currently there are thirty-nine Catholic elementary school throughout the

diocese. The decision of religious men and women to serve God and Church elsewhere than the classroom may easily be viewed as a disaster of immense consequences. Or it can be

understood as a charge stemming directly from the Second Vatican Council challenging the diocesan laity to exercise their baptismal share in Christ’s priesthood by assuming a vital interest

and accepting a personal involvement in the education of Catholic youth.

Many children today are no different than the urchins of LaSalle’s era. They are “often left to themselves and badly brought up.” They are “far from salvation.” Happily other children receive a fine introduction to Catholicism from their parents and grandparents. Still, formal

Catholic education is perhaps more important now than it ever was as young people grow up in an entirely secular environment. Sunday is no different than any other day in Godless America and the same can be said of many other religious customs and traditions that used to support

religious faith. Many local educators, both religious and lay, have dedicated themselves nobly to preserving the Catholic classroom locally. Larry Poitras at Good Shepherd in Woonsocket, Sr.

Martha Serbst at Woodlawn Regional in Pawtucket, and Kathy Mowry at St. Augustine in Providence deserve much credit for their lengthy service to local Catholic schools. Fr. James Ruggieri and his staff at St. Patrick parish in Providence nobly and courageously initiated a

Catholic high school especially for youngsters for whom current tuition rates were daunting. Alan Tenreiro, freshly appointed president at Mt. St. Charles Academy in Woonsocket, recently gave an eloquent summary to the local deanery on his efforts to preserve the Catholic nature of that

nearly 100 year old high school.

The Grateful for God’s Providence Capital Campaign being conducted throughout the diocese over the next two years is seeking an endowment of $5,000.000.00 to insure the continuation of formal Catholic education in Rhode Island. A tradition that dates back the Ascension deserves

much practical and much generous support.

Grateful for God’s Providence Capital Campaign 2019 - Fr. John Kiley