July bulletin
July 15, 2007
The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 15, 2007
Alone in the jungle, he could hear enemy soldiers coming in his direction. Scrambling for cover, he found his way up a high ridge to several small caves in the rock. Quickly he crawled inside one of the caves. Although safe for the moment, he realized that once the enemy soldiers looking for him swept up the ridge, they would quickly search all the caves and he would be killed.
As he waited, he prayed, "Lord, if it be your will, please protect me. Whatever your will though, I love you and trust you. Amen.". After praying, he lay quietly listening to the enemy begin to draw close. He thought, "Well, I guess the Lord isnt going to help me out of this one." Then he saw a spider begin to build a web over the front of his cave.
As he watched, listening to the enemy searching for him all the while, the spider layered strand after strand of web across the opening of the cave. "Hah, he thought. “ What I need is a brick wall and what the Lord has sent me is a spider web. God does have a sense of humor."
As the enemy drew closer he watched from the darkness of his hideout and could see them searching one cave after another. As they came to his, he got ready to make his last stand. To his amazement, however, after glancing in the direction of his cave, they moved on. Suddenly, he realized that with the spider web over the entrance, his cave looked as if no one had entered for quite a while.
"Lord, forgive me", prayed the young man. "I had forgotten that in you a spiders web is stronger than a brick wall."
We all face times of great trouble. When we do, it is so easy to forget what God can work in our lives, sometimes in the most surprising ways. And remember with God, a mere spiders web becomes a brick wall of protection.
Dear Lord, We thank you for all our Military, and their families.
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“The Paradox of Our Time”
The paradox of our time in history is that:
We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We have learned how to make a living, but not a life. We have added years to life not life to years!
We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbour.
We have done larger things, but not better things. We have cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We have learned to rush, but not to wait.
We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
Author Unknown.
This is the last bulletin published until August 11, 2007. The intentions for daily masses will be posted on the bulletin board.
Don’t forget our Food Bank! Please bring snack food for lunches and baby food for next week!
Announced Masses
Saturday, July 14
5:00 pm Intentions of Jeannette MacDonald, req by
Stase Danaitis
Sunday, July 15
9:00 am For our parishioners
11:15 am John MacPhee & Caroline MacPhee, req by
John & Lorraine MacPhee
Jean-Guy Goyer, req by Chantal Dumont
James Kelly, req by Anna Mae & Sean O’Carroll
Tuesday, July 17
9:00 am Private Intention
Wednesday, July 18
9:00 am Intentions of Rodney MacDonald, req by
Richard & Mary MacDonald
Thursday, July 19
9:00 am Intentions of George & Dorothy Gibbs on the
occasion of their 50th Wedding Anniversary
Friday, July 20
9:00 am Special Intention, req by Patricia Tonner
Saturday, July 21
5:00 pm Gerard Houle, req by Marcelle & Harold Byrne
Fred Smith, req by his wife Rita
Sunday, July 22
9:00 am For our Parishioners
11:15 am Victor Zapotoczny, req by his wife Bernadette
Stella McGee, req by Jamie O’Connor
Please check the bulletin board for daily mass intentions
Saturday, July 28
5:00 pm For Our Parishioners
Sunday, July 29
9:00 am Sir Manilal Nannavati, req by the Nannavati family
For the Josephs of the Valiulis family, req by
John Valiulis
11:15 am Lucelta Husbands, req by Carol Ann Alphonse-
Trudel & Claude Trudel
John MacPhee & Caroline MacPhee, req by
John & Lorraine MacPhee
Special intention, req by the Sacristans of the parish
Please check the bulletin board for daily mass intentions
Saturday, August 4
5:00 pm Luca Dumont, req by the Dumont family
Denis Cyr, req by Patricia Hirrel-Cyr
Sunday, August 5
9:00 am For our Parishioners
11:15 am Deceased members of the Knights of Columbus
Marguerite Dunn, req by the Pastoral Council
Please check the bulletin board for daily mass intentions
Saturday, August 11
5:00 pm For our Parishioners
Sunday, August 12
9:00 am Constance Cassin, req by Joe O’Connell
11:15 am John MacPhee & Caroline MacPhee, req by
John & Lorraine MacPhee
Rose Richer, req by Willy & Betty Ouellet