WEEKDAY MASSES -

Thursday, July 15 - 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 The Prophet’s Mission of Evangelizing

Jesus Christ came into the world on a mission. This mission dominated his entire life and was the inspiration behind everything he did including his decision to choose his disciples. In the Old Testament God also chose and sent prophets to the people of Israel often to bring back the people to the right path. But there were false prophets as well who told the people especially the leaders what they wanted to hear and not what God wanted them to do, this is what happened in the case of Amos and Amaziah. The former was a prophet who chosen by God, warned the people of Israel to change their ways and repent while Amaziah, the false prophet was more interested in material benefits. He saw the task of a prophet as a profession instead of a vocation. Hence, he tells Amos to go back to Judah and earn his bread there. Jesus understands this temptation and instructs his disciples on what is expected of a true preacher of the word of God – detachment. God has a purpose for humanity; and to discover it and be dedicated to it, a true disciple needs to cultivate the virtue of detachment from material things and remain open to the Holy Spirit.

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, September 7 at 6:15 p.m. Required immediately - FIVE NEW MEMBERS

Ministries Schedule, July 18

Lector - Buzz Lumsden

Usher - Paul Horne

Sacristan - Flo Flemming

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

A new schedule is available for the summer months. Urgently needed - 2 sacristans - training provided.

Ways & Means - Game of Chance - will be held in August, we are requesting donations of household items or whatever you think would be a nice prize. Donations can be dropped of to the vestry or a committee member. Thank you for your past support.

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 (52) $665. Cemetery (4) $180.

ST. AGNES (8) $135. Cemetery (1) $50.

ST. VINCENT de PAUL (6) $125. Loose $20 Cemetery (1) $50.

ST. JOSEPH (15) $270. Cemetery $100. Picnic Donations $615.

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