WEEKDAY MASSES -

Thursday, July 8 - 6:00 p.m. St. Anthony’s Chapel, Canso - ♥For the Faithful

COMMUNION CALLS - If you know of anyone who is unable to get out to Mass and would like to receive Holy Communion, please call the parish office to have their name added to the list.

REFLECTION ON TODAY’S READINGS Rejecting the Messenger
In the gospel of today, Jesus Christ is rejected by his own people because they could not understand why someone from such a familiar, poor, and illiterate background would display the kind of wisdom he did. They claim to know everything about Jesus especially his family background hence their outright rejection of Jesus and his message. As a result, Jesus didn’t work any miracle among his own people as he did in the other places he visited. In fact, he was surprised by their lack of faith. This kind of obstinacy and rejection of God’s message is also what prophet Ezekiel in the First Reading encountered. However, God insisted that His message must be delivered irrespective of whether the people listen or not. In our time today, how many people disregard or reject the message of the gospel because of their feeling concerning the person who brought the word of God to them. We look down on God’s messengers to our own detriment because rejection of His message is a rejection of His blessing. God tests our humility in order to pour upon us His blessings through the grace of Jesus Christ.

July 11: Sea Sunday
Churches around the world celebrate Sea Sunday: a day each year for people to pray and give thanks for those who earn their living from and on the sea. An estimated 90 per cent of goods on our store shelves are there through the efforts of crews aboard ships who often spend months at sea weathering storms and working long, physical hours for relatively low pay and little vacation. “I was a stranger and you welcomed me,” is this year’s theme. From StellaMaris.org.uk, an international charity for the welfare of seafarers: “When seafarers are in foreign ports, they often rely on the strangers who visit them to support them – Often they don’t even speak the local language, making things even harder.” Services to seafarers have become more crucial, and more difficult, during the COVID pandemic. With isolation protocols, crews can be stranded on board ship unable to replenish supplies or communicate with their families back home. This Sea Sunday, as COVID protocols encourage us to celebrate privately or in small groups, we can: Remember fishers and seafarers in our prayers. In this Year of St. Joseph, we think of St. Joseph as ‘a working father, a father on the shadows’ and pray for all those who labour unseen to transport the world’s goods and feed us as well as their own families. Support aid to seafarers through local or international mission organizations.

STAR OF THE SEA NEWS

Property and Finance Committee - Meeting will be held Tuesday, July 6 at 6:15 p.m. Required immediately - FOUR NEW MEMBERS,

Ministries Schedule, July 11

Lector - Edmund LeBlanc

Usher - Carla Armsworthy

Sacristan - Carla Armsworthy

Cleaners - July 18 - 24 - Theresa Casey/Eileen Cohoon

A new schedule is available for the summer months.

Urgently needed - 2 sacristans - training provided.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL NEWS

Thank you - a very special thank you to Dave Hanhams, District 4 Councillor for his assistance in obtaining a grant of $1,000.00 to aid the parish.

Ticket Draw - Tickets are available on a Summertime Basket, to be drawn July 31. To buy or sell tickets please contact Donna or Alice. Thank you for your anticipated support.

OUR FOUR CEMETERIES

Cemetery Maintenance - Maintenance fee, ($50.00) for 2021 is now due. This fee is payable to the parish cemetery where your loved one is buried. It can be placed in the Cemetery Envelope from your box of collection envelopes or placed in an envelope marked “Cemetery” at any time during the year and can be paid in installments. This fee is used for the upkeep of the parish cemetery.

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS

STAR OF THE SEA (24) $595. Loose $5. Cemetery (5) $200.

ST. AGNES (12) $315. Cemetery (2) $100.

ST. VINCENT de PAUL (7) $135.

ST. JOSEPH (May & June) (100) $2350. Cemetery $725. Building Fund $2275. Picnic Donations $1755.

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