the ascension of the lord seventh sunday of easter may…
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Fr. Dean Henderson
and the Community
Of St. Rose of Lima
Welcome You to
Our Celebration
THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
May, 15 & 16, 2021
Pastor Fr. Dean Henderson: Cell: 250-882-2151 E-mail: [email protected]
Office Phone: 250-642-3945
Sacrament of Confession: Prior to all Masses and by appointment
Sacrament of Baptism by appointm ent
Parish Pastoral Council Chair: Carol Chrismas Sweeney
Phone: 250-642-7172 E-mail: [email protected]
Please make sure your cell phone is turned off. Thank you.
Bulletin Deadline: Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
Welcome
If you are a visitor of St. Rose of Lima we want you to know how welcome you are, whether you have come from another part of the country, from across the world, from another parish in the Diocese, or you're a neighbour in Sooke.
Mass Times:
Drive-in Masses:
Fridays at 10:00 am
Saturdays at 4:00 pm
in the parking lot
Weddings: By Appointment
Funeral: Individual arrangements with ou r priest. Call th e parish office.
Please note: The Parish Office is still closed to the public. Please make an appointment if you
need to come in. Thank you.
Office Hours: Mailing Address: St. Rose of Lim a Parish
Thursday 10:00 am — 2:00 pm 2191 Townsend Rd
Friday 10:00 am — 2:00 pm Sooke, B.C. V9Z0H4
Office Phone: 250-642-3945 Office Fax: 778-425-3945
E-Mail: [email protected] Website: w w w .strosesooke.com
Emergency Hospital Chaplain for VGH & RJH— Fr. Sean Flynn
Cell phone: 250-889-3761
Contact toll-free number for all cases of sexual abuse: 1-800-968-3146
A trained counsellor will respond and provide assistance with the progress of reporting
claims.
Parking Lot Mass Schedule:
Saturday Mass 4:00 pm
Friday Mass 10:00 am
Please turn your radio station to FM 87.9
Ascension of the Lord
May 15/16 2021
Jesus said “ask and it shall be given to you”, and I do a lot of asking! I asked that fami-lies with children return to Mass at OLOR, set up lawn chairs, and they did, even en-during the rain for Jesus. The Covid risk is negligible. With well over a year of keeping protocols AND our Church open for; daily prayer, communion and confession, weekday and weekend Sunday Masses indoors and outdoors, we’re without a single incidence of a Covid transmission. Praise the Lord. What a Mother’s Day blessing to have 9 families totaling 45 extra people sitting in the parking lot in front of our ordinary 50 cars. In Sooke, in a pretty full parking lot I asked at announcement time if we could get some help with the out-of-control gardens and landscaping, and a Knight of Columbus in at-tendance put the word out to organize a couple of Saturdays of KC assistance. The par-ishes are alive and I’m happy to report that the Church matters to people.
On the community/societal level, I’m left wondering sometimes if the Church is the on-ly institution to believe in and speak of ‘objective moral order’, truth and the existence of reality. On the Federal Census, we’re asked questions about ‘gender’ like “What was your assigned gender at birth?” Huh? If not mistaken, I wasn’t assigned a gender, I was, and am biologically, physiologically, spiritually and personally male! At conception I was ‘given’ a sex. No matter the questions I might subjectively have later in life about my identity due to gender dysphoria, or ideological/political prejudice, that can’t change fact and faith. We are created in the image of God, male and female, and we’re loved. In the comments section the census organizers were offered a mini homily on the issue.
Confusion too reigns in the public and political response to both the Covid and Over-dose crises. While the public health authority implements sweeping economic, social and spiritual restrictions, everything from hugging extended family to forgoing ferry trips, it presumes massive behavioral cooperation and the alteration of ordinary indi-vidual social conduct. And if you don’t cooperate, watch out, there will be consequenc-es. But behavioral change presumed to reverse the overdose crisis is not only facile but a failure. I have often read and heard government pronouncements which consistently fail to communicate two simply behavioral concepts when it comes to lethal potential of illicit drug dealing and consumption. DON’T DO IT, and if doing it, STOP!!!! The recent news of the horrific tragedy of 11-year-old ‘Ally’ dying in Langford after purchas-ing fentanyl laced heroin downtown breaks one's heart. A sample of public health and educational response in the Times Colonist proves the point. “Anyone experimenting with drugs should never do it alone, and should have access to a Naloxone...” “We know children will experiment and we don’t want to create fear, because the fear itself will cause harm.” (Compare this to Covid restrictions which are designed to instill ap-propriate fear of the virus). “How do we delay - and that’s the intent around middle school- how do we delay them from experimenting?”
AGM:
St. Rose of Lima will be holding our Annual General Meeting on June 12th, immediately following mass. Due to the current restrictions we are anticipating a very brief outdoor AGM. Please send any nomina-tions for council members to Rita, Fr. Dean or Carol Chrismas
As a parent, if I discover my children are planning to play at the edge of a 300-foot cliff, where some 7000 children have died since 2016 and I simply exhort them to take a friend for safety, and a first aid kit in case they fall over, you’d rightly assume I was completely incompetent, didn’t really care, or needed my own psychiatric evaluation. Not to insist my children NEVER play at the edge of that cliff would be a destructive failure of love and logic. God help us!!
Sunday Mass Readings for 7th Sunday of Easter
Ascension of the Lord
First Reading: Acts 1. 1-11
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 47
Second Reading: Ephesians 1. 17-23
Gospel: Mark 16. 15—20
RCIA will commence in September!
Want to become a Catholic or know someone who might? The Rite of Christian Initiation (RCIA) course will be offered mostly virtually starting in Sep-tember through to next Easter. The process is one of friendly formation in the practice of the Christian faith, while being informed of the riches of the Catholic doctrinal, moral and spiritual life in Jesus Christ. This course could be for those yet to be baptized, those baptized but yet to be confirmed, and those who may have been away from the practice of the faith for a significant time and need a re-fresher!! Please be in touch with our pastor Fr. Dean who along with sponsors will facilitate, teach and guide the course.
Fr. Dean N. Henderson Cell 250.882.2151
Happy Birthday to: Cli f ford, Rita Le -Gal , May 15 , Jean Palmart , May 16, Mel issa Nei lson, Tom Sweeney, May 18, Den-nis Storey/Copper , May 19 , Luke Cl i f ford, Cara & Mia Senecal , May 20, Daniel Ranns, May 22, Gus Van Arendonk, May 23, Ken Proudlove, May 25, Sid Jorna, May 26, Bryan Daly, Hannah Dahmer, May 28, Kathy Legun, May 29.
Happy Anniversary to: Noeleen & Peter Owton, May 25, Pat & Jim
Hoggan, May 28, Heidi & Noel Stone, May 30, Jeanette & Joe Smith,
May 31.
Pastoral Care Visits while in Hospital
during the Covid-19 pandemic. If you
or someone you love is admitted to the hospi-
tal and would like a visit from a priest you
need to let the nurse on your ward know to
call the hospital chaplain Fr. Sean Flynn at
250-889-3761.
During the pandemic the pastor of your parish
is only allowed to visit if someone is in need of
the last rites.
Note: If you know
of someone from
our parish, your
family or friends
that would like to
be added you our
prayer list (with
their consent)
please forward
their names to the
parish office.
Volunteers needed: If you have som e spare
time and would consider coming in during office
hours (or your own time if you have a key) to wash
out the fridge in the kitchen.
The weeds are growing on our church ground and we
could use help with the weeding .
to Keven Stephens for tackling the
weeds on Friday’s after Mass
Please pray for all parishioners who are ill, at home or in hospital Betty Rumsby, Pauline Brooks, Eva & Klaus Rue-benthaler, Jaqueline & Willie Rieper, Dieter & Ulla Rie-per, Elisabeth Epp, Craig Young, Joe & Jeanette Smith, Hubert Leber, Steve Formosa, Bill Brown, Henrietta Ol-son, Fr. Michael Favero, Pat & Jim Hoggan, Gunter Rie-per, Rhonda MacDougal, Shirley Alphonse, Rita Fitzner, Marissa Thola, Judith Medau.
Our Pastor’s availability for appointments:
Monday—Day off
Tuesday—Flexible location day
Wednesday—OLOR—9:00 am –8:30 pm
Thursday—OLOR—9:30 am—4:00 pm
Friday—SRL—9:30 am—3:00 pm
Confession and Communion also:
SRL—3:30 pm, Saturday—Pastor’s Office
OLOR—9:00-10:30 am and noon to 2:00 pm Sunday
Church Sacristy
Collection Apr-21 YTD
Envelopes 2,254 7,106
PAD 3,024 11,629
Loose 598 1,776
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Total 5,876 20,511
Budget 5,700 24,225
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Difference 176 -3,714
The Year of St. Joseph
If you’ve been following our News posts, you’ll know that we’re in the middle of a special week for Life and the Family and a special month of prayer to our Mother Mary, for an end to the pandemic. Well, this year is special too: back in December, Pope Francis proclaimed the Year of St. Joseph, beginning on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (December 8th), and continuing to the same feast in 2021.
This year was chosen as it marks the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pope Pius IX’s declaration
of St Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. St. Joseph is the patron saint of many other
things as well, including the Americas and Canada. Many Canadian churches are named for
him: St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, Quebec is the largest church in Canada; closer to
home, we have three different churches dedicated to St. Joseph in our Diocese, in Tahsis,
Chemainus, and Victoria.
Pope Francis wrote an Apostolic Letter entitled Patris Corde (“With a Father’s Heart”) to mark
the start of the Year. In it, he describes St. Joseph as a beloved, tender and loving father; an
obedient, accepting and creatively courageous father; a working father, and a father in the
shadows. He also notes how St. Joseph, “the man who goes unnoticed, a daily, discreet and
hidden presence… reminds us that those who appear hidden or in the shadows can play an
incomparable role in the history of salvation” – an important reminder during this pandemic,
when we’ve seen how “our lives are woven together and sustained by ordinary people, peo-
ple often overlooked.”
Pope Francis ended his Letter with a prayer to St. Joseph. During this year, let us join with
Catholics around the world in praying to this special saint:
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer,
Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man. Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father
and guide us in the path of life.
Obtain for us grace, mercy, and courage,
and defend us from every evil. Amen.
Introductory: May the month of Promise
Why is May chosen as the month in which
we exercise a special devotion to the Blessed
Virgin?
The first reason is because it is the time
when the earth bursts forth into its fresh foliage
and its green grass after the stern frost and snow of
winter, and the raw atmosphere and the wild wind
and rain of the early spring. It is because the blos-
soms are upon the trees and the flowers are in the
gardens. It is because the days have got long, and
the sun rises early and sets late. For such gladness
and joyousness of external Nature is a fit attendant
on our devotion to her who is the Mystical Rose
and the House of Gold.
A man may say, “True; but in this climate we have sometimes a bleak, in-
clement May”. This cannot be denied; but still, so much is true that at least it is the
month of promise and of hope. Even though the weather happens to be bad, it is
the month that begins and heralds in the summer. We know, for all that may be
unpleasant in it, that fine weather is coming sooner or later. “Brightness and beau-
tifulness shall”, in the Prophet’s words, “appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it
makes delay, wait for it, for it shall surely come, and shall not be slack”.
May then is the month, if not of fulfilment, at least of promise; and is not
this the very aspect in which we most suitably regard the Blessed Virgin, Holy
Mary, to whom this month is dedicated?
The Prophet says, “There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and
a flower shall rise out of his root”. Who is the flower but our Blessed Lord? Who is
the rod, or beautiful stalk or stem or plant out of which the flower grows, but Mary,
Mother of our Lord, Mary, Mother of God?
It was a prophesied that God should come upon earth. When the time was now full, how was it announced? It was announced by the Angel coming to Mary. “Hail, full of grace,” said Gabriel, “the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women.” She then was the sure promise of the coming Savior, and therefore May is by a special title her month.
St. John Henry Newman