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J u l y 1 9 , 2 0 2 0 - 1 6 t h S u n d a y i n O r d i n a r y

“The kingdom of heaven may be com-

pared to someone who

sowed good seed in his field; but while

everybody was asleep,

an enemy came and

sowed weeds among the wheat,

and then went away.”

-Matthew 13:24-25

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LocationPastoral Centre440 King St. East, Hamilton, ON L8N 1C6Administrative Centre20 Emerald St. South, Hamilton, ON L8N 2V2

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Parish Leadership TeamFr. Tony O’Dell, OMItodell@hamiltondiocese.comSherri Ramirez | De Mazenod Door Outreach CoordinatorIan Ford | Youth Ministry / IT CoordinatorChristina Crawford | Music DirectorKaren Ford | Communications Coordinator

Pastoral TeamSr. Andrea Kowalczyk| Liturgy WorkshopsArthur Kara| Facilities OperatorBr. Dan Dionne, OMI | Music MinistryDiana Quildon | Volunteer CoordinatorDiane Downey| DeMazenod Door Outreach - Administrative AssistantEvelyn VanFleet| Assistant Facilities OperatorJC Asuncion| Youth Ministry CoordinatorKatharine Bennett| DeMazenod Dooor Outreach Louella Lacerna| Office AssistantRita Kara| Office AdministratorLynne Pollard| Sacristan

Oblate Vocation OfficeFr. Jarek Pachocki, OMIVocation Directorvocations@omilacombe.ca

BEYOND THE WALLSW h a t H a p p e n s H e r e D o e s n ’ t S t a y H e r e

We have been ‘preaching’ about ‘Beyond the Walls’ at St. Patrick’s for a couple of years now, but in all reality it be-gan back in 2012 when those wrought iron fences that surrounded the entire church property, were taken down. As a church, it cannot be your intention to only reach the people who already enter and come inside the doors. There were many long standing parishioners who had been faithfully attending for many years as the church is 144 years old. However, a great majority had simply moved away – or moved on. It was quite obvious that something needed to change, and change it did. Anyone notice?

As with anything, change is never easy, but yet is so nec-essary to continue to evolve and move forward. We have all heard the words (and we’ve all uttered them too) ‘that’s not how we’ve always done it here’ or ‘that’s not how it used to be’. However, by never moving forward and away from these particular phrases, you risk never knowing any difference or seeing any growth. You would never know what could quite possibly be so much better or so much more.

In our case, it was the beginning of a multitude of move-ments. The fences that were meant to keep the homeless and addicted, and those who were hungry and begging for money for something to eat - out, were literally keep-ing everyone out. And so with that being said, down they came. This eventually led to the opening of De Mazenod Door Outreach. And we kept growing and kept progress-ing. Our parishioner base started to flourish again and the many who believed in our mission, not only came back, but also came forward to help the poor, the broken and the marginalized in our neighbourhoods. We brought about much change with our ‘come as you are’ mindset, which is exactly what was intended. We then began our window repair and restoration and once we had a good grip on that, we decided that we could no longer wait to do the much needed renovating that was so necessary, which in itself brought about a whole bunch of change. We continued to change on the fly and sometimes by the

seat of our pants. It just continued to evolve. One change became another and then became another.

We look at the church now with different eyes and see not just difference, but a completely different outlook and for that we are grateful to the Holy Spirit who lit that fire be-neath us all!

There is a whole different change happening beyond our walls these past few months. Certainly change we not only planned on or never seen coming, but change that stopped us dead in our tracks and to which we contin-ue to make daily or weekly in following Municipal, Pro-vincial and Federal guidelines. None of this was thought out or our doing, but with every change we find a way to make it work. Online masses had been a thought… but far into the future and just look what a great difference that change has made. We now look ahead, like all of you, to see what’s coming next, praying regularly to God our Heavenly Father to guide us and lead us through all things new. We are blessed, as a parish community to have all of you on this journey with us.

DONATIONS TO ST. PATRICK CHURCH AND DE MAZENOD DOOR OUTREACH

It seems like everyone is asking for your money these days, and for good reason. This Covid-19 pandemic has flipped the lives of everyone and everything up-side down and inside out. The fact remains for all of us however, that bills still need to be paid, and that in-cludes our bills at St. Patrick.

If you are able to still support St. Patrick, (and we completely understand many will not be able to at this time), here are the ways you can do it:

CanadaHelps - on our website, stpatrickshamilton.ca, at the “donate” button. Below is the drop down menu you will find when you go to CanadaHelps on the website:

• General• St. Patrick Heritage Fund• St. Patrick Window Campaign• Beyond the Walls” Renovation• De Mazenod Door Outreach - General• De Mazenod Door Outreach - Mission with Youth• De Mazenod Door Outreach - Friday Barbeque

Other ways to donate are:• Pre-Authorized Giving• Etransfer - parishoffice@stpatrickshamilton.ca• Mail - 20 Emerald Street South, Hamilton, L8N 2V2• Mail Box - 440 King Street East (mail slot to the right of the De Mazenod Door Outreach door or 20 Emer-

ald Street South (secure mailbox). If you have an issue with stairs please use the option at 440 King Street East.

We are grateful to everyone that has been able to donate to St. Patrick. THANK YOU!

Rest and Hygiene Station Update:It has been a whirlwind few months for the Rest and Hygiene Station here at St. Patrick’s. No two days were alike, with each one seeing different safety regulations, rules, people and even snacks! When we first opened, I remember needing to bundle up with multiple layers because temperatures were frigid. Now, we see the complete opposite in temperatures, which I definitely prefer! Volunteering at the station has been an amazing experience - one that I will not soon forget. The people that I have met have taught me so much about kindness, humility, patience, persistence, courage and faith. I feel that through cultivating relationships with our guests and getting to know more about them, I have learned a lot about myself as well. In speaking with many of the volunteers, I know that they have had a life-changing experience at the station as well. Life has been put into perspective.

I am so grateful to our volunteers who have shown great dedication and commitment. Each one wholeheartedly loved and served the guests through preparing their refreshments, cleaning the space and having genuine conversations with them, I am also so thankful for the generous support of parishioners and community members who donated supplies for the station. There were even those who volunteered their time off-site to sew cloth masks for our volunteers and guests. The pandemic has brought about a lot of uncertainty and fear but it has also revealed goodness and generosity.

As the city begins to slowly progress to a new normal, the operation of the Rest and Hygiene station will respond accordingly. We now only run on weekdays from 1-5 PM. The weekend hours have been removed (after having been first reduced) in order to celebrate the sacraments of Holy Matrimony and Baptism which are eagerly being anticipated. Our guests have been so grateful and continue to be grateful for the help that we can offer. There is plenty of life in our parish!

Friday BBQ

Ways to Help

Most Wanted item this week

Volunteer: Call the office or email Diana (our Volunteer Coordinator) at dquildon@stpatrickshamilton.ca

Donate: To support this program, go to our website: www.stpatrickshamilton.ca and click GIVE

Thank You To Our Sponsors!

This week’s BBQ is sponsored by:

• Sabrina Fiorucci• Patricia Ryan, in memory of Fr. Chris Rushton• Ralph Bertram, In memory of deceased Oblates of the Diocese of Mackenzie – Fort Worth

BANANAS

We thank everyone for their prayers, time, talents

and treasures!

We wanted to take time this week to high-light one of our long time supporters of De Mazenod Door Out-reach, out of sheer gratitude. The Soci-ety of St. Vincent de Paul, St Francis Xavier Stoney Creek Parish Conference is a conference of 20 members which has supported us for the past three years through their regular monthly SSVP mass col-lection. Every month one of their members drops off $500.00 in PC Gift Cards to be used for our ministry. We have been able to use these in an array of different ways. For example, assisting ‘guests’ who have spent hours doing laborious work around the property, picking up garbage, helping with unloading truckloads of food do-nations and other odd jobs necessary for the running of the program, as well as for purchasing food or other items sold at any Loblaws affiliated grocery store.

Recently, this Conference applied for and received some Covid-19 related funding, with a stipulation that the funding obtained would be used for Coronavirus relief. Having said that, their members voted to include De Mazenod Door Outreach as benefactors and have just donated $1,500.00 of that funding in gift cards to cover July and August, raising their monthly funding to $750.00! They are hopeful to have enough to again extend their regular donations again in September and possibly further.

Thank you to each and every member for going beyond your walls for the better good of your surrounding neighbours! We are so grateful for your constant sup-port and loyalty of those we serve. God bless you all!

VOCATIONS

During the last few months the world has been brought to its knees by the COVID19 pandemic. We have experi-enced confusion like we’ve never had before. In the midst of it all, some might have felt afraid, alone or disoriented by the shadows hanging over our world. The COVID19 pandemic took away some of our loved ones, jobs and income, social relationships. Our plans that we were so looking forward to were altered or changed completely.

Having said that, some of the challenges brought out the best out of people. Many have dedicated their time and talents working on the front line of the pandemic, in hos-pitals, grocery stores, outreach ministries and sanitary stations, all serving the most abandoned and vulnerable in society. Many faith communities have prayed, wor-shiped, and experiences spiritual communion through the LIVE streaming of the Masses. We’ve connected with people close and far who are starving for a spiritual nour-ishment these days.

For many, these difficult times have been opportunity to reflect on meaning of life, while asking fundamental questions about purpose, vocation and calling.

God has an amazing plan for us, because he created us, not accidently, but with purpose. From the begin-ning God planted the good seed in the field of our lives. The seed of our vocation, the way of life we are meant to live. So why do we struggle so much to clearly see it;

and even more hesitantly to answer it with the courage of bringing it into action? It feels like someone “sowed weeds among the wheat”. For some it might be a weed of fear and uncertainty. For others it might be a cycle of addiction, unresolved issues of the past or broken rela-tionships. Whatever it is, it’s real!

Pope Francis once said, “We need to pray that the hearts of these young people might be emptied: emptied of other interests, emptied of other loves, that their hearts might become free”. In order to discover our vocation, our calling, our purpose in life; we have to emptied the field of our hearts from the weed. We have to weed the wheat! This is the time of the harvest. This is the time to “Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.” Matthew 13:30

WEEDING THE WHEAT

“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went

away.”

Fr. Jarek Pachocki OMIVocation Director - OMI Lacombe Canada

Phone: (905) 522-9828 Ext 305Email: vocations@omilacombe.ca

Instagram: @jarekpachTwitter: @jarekpachocki

Facebook: /jarek.pachocki#OblateVocations

T he pizza oven has arrived at St. Mary’s in Kitchener! The downtown parish raised

funds, including through the One Heart, One Soul Campaign, to renovate its hall to install a commercial kitchen that specializes in pizza.

The parish took some students from St. Mary's High School on a field trip to "Pizza Camp" to test some equipment and learn about how to make dough from scratch. As you can imagine, there was also quite a bit of sampling! The students got to choose which pizza oven the parish would purchase, and it arrived in the midst of the pandemic.

Also during the pandemic, Kitchener's winter overflow shelter extended its services to allow for those who are experiencing homelessness to have a safe place to find shelter and practice physical distancing.

St. Mary's has been donating sandwiches and baked goods every Friday and Sunday to the shelter since November. Since the pandemic, individuals and families – even those from neighbouring parishes – have signed up to take on a night.

BlessingsIN THE MIDST

OF TRIAL

PIZZA OVEN, HELP FOR HOMELESSGAIN SPOTLIGHT AT ST. MARY’S IN KITCHENER

The pandemic hasn’t halted the

good work of the Church. The Stewardship and Development

Office asked for examples, and parishes provided a wealth of them. A few are here,

and more are to come! See the previous fliers at hamiltondiocese.com/news.

ST. ANN, ANCASTERThanks to the One Heart, One Soul Campaign,

St. Ann’s has been able to move its Music Ministry into the church loft, paint the church

interior, install a tile floor to replaced the 37-year-old carpet, install a new sound system in the church and pay down the

parish’s Diocesan loan by 30%. On top of that, volunteers came together and completely redid

the gardens outside the front of the church.Every day during the shutdown, the mail slot on the office door opened and an envelope dropped through, said Fr. Wayne Lobsinger,

pastor. St. Ann’s has been able to maintain its collections at about 65% of normal and with

the reduction in expenses, the parish is actually growing its bank account.

“I am very pleased with my parish,” Fr. Lobsinger said. “We have used this time

to do some amazing things.”

CATHEDRAL BASILICA, HAMILTON “For me, one of the most difficult aspects of the COVID ‘pause’ was celebrating Mass in an empty Cathedral Basilica. Thankfully, we were able to arrange – through the kindness of Cable 14 (Hamilton) – the televising of Sunday Mass

with Bishop Crosby each week in the Cathedral Basilica. CHCH TV repeated the broadcast each week. Mass with Bishop Crosby reached several thousand homes in Hamilton, and with the repeat on CHCH, viewers from across Canada were able to tune in. Our thanks to Cable 14 and CHCH for this broadcast,

which was a comfort to many Catholics. Now that we are slowly reopening, it is a great joy to welcome back the faithful and to celebrate with the sacred assembly.”

– Fr. David Wynen

WEEKEND READINGS

COLLECTION REPORT

First Reading:Wisdom 12.13, 16-19

Second Reading:Romans 8.26-27

Gospel:Matthew 13.24-43

“Let both of them grow together until the harvest”

July 12, 2020

With some of our staff on Vacation last week, July 12th weekend collections wasn’t processed. Our Next weeks bulletin will have two weeks worth of updates for you.

Tuesday | July 14 12:15 PM• Letitia Howell• Jose Faria and Family

Wednesday | July 15 12:15 PM • Gracinda De Jesus Caetano• Domenico Versace & DiLeonardo Families

Thursday | July 16 12:15 PM• Chan Sing Yatcua• Deceased Members of Quildon Family

Friday | July 17 12:15 PM• Theresa Morneau

Saturday | July 186:00 PM• Special Int: Celsa Yecla• Pietro Giacomazza

Sunday | July 199 AM• St. Patrick Parishioners11:30 AM• Maria Do Rosario Roque• Freitas & Pereira Family and Moniz Family

7:15 PM• Romolo Spinozzi• Anna Balenovic

UPDATES

MASS INTENTIONS

Karen Ford (Communications Coordinator and my assistant) had a mild stroke on Tuesday morn-ing, as she was preparing to come to work. She is recovering at the General Hospital. This past Friday she underwent surgery to unblock an ar-tery, while there were complications, the surgeon

was success-ful, thanks be to God. Now we pray for her rehabi l i tat ion and complete recovery. Thank you to all who have sent in your thoughts and prayers. It is much appreciat-ed!

Please Note: Next Saturday we will move our mass time to 5 p.m. Our Hygiene Station will be closed on the weekends going forward, which will allow us to resume sacramental ministry of wed-dings and baptisms. Also, confessions are avail-able by appointment.