Your Corpus Christi Parish news for the week of September 19, the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The in person Mass schedule remains unchanged.
Our online Mass for those not attending in person is at 11:45 am on our YouTube Channel.
St. Januarius pray for us
St. Januarius' Feast Day is September 19.
In the image above, Pope Francis kisses a reliquary containing the blood of St. Januarius. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) St. Januarius' blood traditionally liquefies three times per year: September 19, St. Januarius’ feast day; the first Saturday of May; and December 16, the anniversary of the 1631 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. The last of these is the least common. His blood last liquefied in May 2021: https://aleteia.org/2021/05/04/watch-the-blood-of-st-januarius-liquefy-in-may-2021/
Heavenly Father, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, we the faithful of Corpus Christi Parish, ask that You bless and sanctify us as we work together to implement our Vision. We ask that You guide us as we strive to love bravely, to serve radically and to meet all whom we encounter with humility and compassion. Help us to unite joyfully and lovingly as followers of your Son, Jesus, to take His message with us wherever we go. We know that by Your grace, we can make this Vision a reality. We ask this in the name of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Please pray for our Confirmandi. Archbishop Dunn will be with us on September 27, 2021 to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation with our youth. These young people have been waiting for this day since the start of the pandemic. Let us pray that on September 27, they will come together to complete the sacraments of initiation.
Daily Mass is livestreamed on our YouTube Channel at
8:30 am following the schedule in this bulletin. Please note that the daily Mass schedule has been modified while Fr. John remains unavailable.
ONLINE SUNDAY MASS IS AT 11:45 AM
To request a Mass card/intention email your nearest Parish Office.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Kentville 4:00 PM
Tom Walsh by Theresa Coffey
Windsor 4:00 PM
Speedy Recovery of Fr John by Souls in Purgatory Prayer Group
Digby 6:00 PM
Wallace, Annie, Albert, George & Lucy Coakley by Gordon & Nancy
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Bridgetown 8:30 AM
Gladys Newton by Carol & Roger Walker
Berwick 8:30 AM
Liturgy of the Word with Communion
Kentville 8:30 AM
Sherman Joseph by Jim & Roberta & Family
Annapolis Royal 9:00 AM
Richard Mailman by Carol & Frank Pugh
Middleton 10:00 AM
Souls in Purgatory
Wolfville 10:00 AM
Anthony Ueffing by Truus Ueffings
Weymouth 11:30 AM
Lena & Gail by Helen Melanson
Kentville 11:45 AM
Souls in Purgatory by Anne Pereira
Windsor 11:45 AM
Liturgy of the Word with Communion
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
Online 8:30 AM
Bob Gothreau by Yolande & family
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Online 8:30 AM
No Mass today
Digby 6:30 PM
Intentions of Paulette Blais by Andre Turcot
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
Online 8:30 AM
No Mass
Weymouth 6:30 PM
Patricia Fougere by Betty & Family
Wolfville 6:00 PM
Cemetery Mass at St. Francis Cemetery, Wolfville
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
Online 8:30 AM
Michael Walsh by Helen
Weymouth 6:30 PM
Agnes Boudreau by Jennie Stewart & Family
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
Online 8:30 AM
Bernard MacDougall by family
Digby 9:00 AM
All Corpus Christi Parishioners
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Kentville 4:00 PM
Jean Stevenson by Dennis & Barb Nash
Digby 6:00 PM
Jason Bell by Gordon & Nancy
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Bridgetown 8:30 AM
Liturgy of the Word with Communion
Berwick 8:30 AM
Rodena Moore by Anita & Leo Currie
Kentville 8:30 AM
Roy Landry by his wife Joyce & family
Annapolis Royal 9:00 AM
Albert Amegah by Eric & Leah Brown
Middleton 10:00 AM
Healing of Fr John by Theresa & Roger Lirette
Wolfville 10:00 AM
All Corpus Christi Parishioners
Weymouth 11:30 AM
Millie Blinn by Helen Melanson
Kentville 11:45 AM
Liturgy of the Word with Communion
Windsor 11:45 AM
Dennis Herx by Eleanor & Terry McKiel
Wed, Sept 22 6:00 pm at
St Francis’ Cemetery, Wolfville
Wed, Sept 29 6:00 pm at
St John’s Cemetery, Windsor
Mass Times:
SATURDAY, SEP 18
Kentville 4:00 PM
Kentville 4:00 PM
Windsor 4:00 PM
Digby 6:00 PM
SUNDAY, SEP 19
Bridgetown 8:30 AM Berwick 8:30 AM
Kentville 8:30 AM Annapolis Royal 9:00 AM Middleton 10:00 AM Wolfville 10:00 AM
Weymouth 11:30 AM
Kentville 11:45 AM Windsor 11:45 AM
Phase 4 Covid rules still apply. The start of Phase 5 has been postponed until at least October 4.
Masks
Social Distancing
Gathering Limits
Provide contact info
Sanitize
Sit where the usher indicates
Remain seated once you're seated
and
Stay home and participate online if :
you have any Covid symptoms
you've been at an exposure site
You can arrange Confession by appointment.
Call or email your nearest Parish Office.
Call or email your nearest Parish Office.
If you are planning on getting married at a Corpus Christi Parish church, contact the Parish Office nearest you.
Call your nearest Parish Office to arrange a Baptism.
To register your child in the next First Communion or Confirmation class, or to get more information about Children’s Faith Formation
Contact Jennifer Moore
902-799-1250
Thanks for keeping your contact info up to date. If you change your email address or want to add your cell phone number - you can look after it yourself by clicking on the button below. No need to phone or email or go into the office.
Having trouble receiving your emails? Send an email to communications@corpuschristins.ca and we'll get you sorted out.
Unbound teaches how to listen and respond in five key areas as you seek greater freedom and learn how to help others do the same. Each key incorporates practical direction on how to respond to the grace that unlocks the door and sets us free.
Interested? Curious? Have a Question?
Want to know more?
Are you carrying burdens that weigh you down?
Do you wish to be free of these burdens?
Join Deacon Dave and the team for Unbound
And be free to be with the Lord
Here are the details for Unbound:
Day: Wednesday
Dates: September 29 to November 17
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Where: Corpus Christi St. Joseph Kentville and ONLINE via Zoom
To Register or for more info
Email Phil Zamora
Alpha
Yes, I'm in. Register Me.
Interested? Want to know more?
We’re looking for
people to start
Discipleship Quads
Not just another small group program or Bible study ...
A Discipleship Quad is a group of four people who journey together as disciples through weekly gatherings of fellowship, ongoing conversion, and learning. This 44 week path of accompaniment fosters growth through prayer, accountability, and authentic relationships in a proven format. Out of a passion to combat these obstacles and help people to have the relationship with Christ they desire, Franciscan University of Steubenville has created the Discipleship Quad.
We are seeking people to start up a Discipleship Quad. All the materials will be provided. Open to all members of Corpus Christi. Materials will be sent to your community church.
Jennifer Moore, our Director of Family Life and Youth, is excited to bring Empowered with the Sacraments to all the children of Corpus Christi Parish!!
Registration is open now!
Empowered by the Sacraments is for children in Grade 3. Children will prepare together to receive the Sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Communion. Children from across the parish will meet in a series of interactive Zoom sessions as they grow in faith together. Special in-person sessions will take place throughout the year and children will receive their Sacraments in their own church communities.
The Empower Program for all children will return later this year as Covid restrictions ease. New dates for the Sacraments will be announced.
Watch for details in future bulletins.
Family Mass
will return
Little Church
will return
As soon as we are able to offer these faith filled experiences for our families with children again, we will let you know.
New dates for the Sacraments postponed last year will be announced as soon as we are able. Watch your bulletin for updates.
Confirmation
2021 - 2022
The Confirmation program offers teens (born in 2006+), an opportunity to explore their faith in real and relevant ways as they encounter the working of the Holy Spirit in their lives. Teens from across the parish will be introduced to a variety of theme topics in a monthly Zoom meeting. Each week teens will meet in small groups, in their own faith communities, to explore and discuss these topics. Special events throughout the year will bring all teens together as they journey together.
Did you know that ‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’ is considered ‘king of the dinosaurs’? God created all things and made Jesus the King of kings!
Families and Youth are invited to participate in building a pumpkin display as our Parish’s contribution to the Kentville Pumpkin People Festival! Each family or group will create one figure: Jesus, T-Rex, or another dinosaur and these will be displayed on the lawn at Corpus Christi Saint Joseph Kentville. Materials will be supplied.
Date: Sunday, October 3, 2021
Time: 1 PM (following Mass).
Where: Corpus Christi St. Joseph Kentville
Theme: Dino Discovery
Congratulations to Emilie Townsend
Emilie is this year’s recipient of the Knights of Columbus Bursary.
Knights of Columbus
Council 5030 Kentville
invites you to join them in congratulating this year's bursary winners:
Grace Hennebery-McNeil was the successful candidate for the State Council, Simon J. Khattar Scholarship
Kaitlyn Wohlmuth was the successful candidation for the K of C Council 5030 Kentville Scholarship.
Knights of Columbus Council 5030 Kentville
extend a sincere Thank You to the following merchants who supported us in the upgrades to Holy Cross Cemetery:
Devries General Maintenance and Cemetery Services
Does your Church Community have a project they'd like to see highlighted in the bulletin? Submit it to your Community Liaison and it could appear here!
Be an Empowered Leader
or lend your support !
We need people like you! There are many ways to share your time, gifts and talents with the families, children and youth in your faith community.
·program leader or helper
·Greeter
·hospitality
·resource and supply (busy bag) coordinator
·community liaison
·bible story reader
·special guest
·Prayer partner for Sacramental candidates
Corpus Christi St. Joseph CWL
Please contact the Kentville parish office to be directed to the correct person.
Several of our church communities have CWL councils. Here's how to reach them....
Corpus Christi St. Monica
CWL President is Bernadette Burns
(902) 765-8643
Corpus Christi St Louis
Contact person is Eloise Mailman.
(902) 532-2205
Knights of Columbus - Greenwood and Middleton
Bill Webber - Grand Knight for Bishop Gallagher Council 6297
Home: (902) 538-5980 Cell: (902) 804-1085
The contact for St Anthony Berwick is Leon Zwicker. He is the representative for the Greenwood/Middleton Knights of Columbus.
(902) 847-5746
Knights of Columbus - Windsor/St. John
Gary Brown
Knights of Columbus Council 5030
Kentville/St. Joseph
Meetings are on the first Wednesday of each month in the Multi-Purpose Room at Corpus Christi St. Joseph Kentville at 7 pm. The next meeting is October 6.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul has a Conference at Corpus Christi St. Francis (Wolfville). SSVP offers emergency aid to those in our area in need of: food, medical, rent, utilities, etc.
SSVP offers hands on contact and support – meeting those in need in their homes. The group generally meets monthly through the fall, winter and spring (some adjustments have been necessary due to COVID) and meetings are open to anyone interested in learning more. The SSVP can always use active support from volunteers, but financial and prayer support is also critical to its success. “Thank you”, for your consideration and for those who have offered continued support!
Contact information for our conference is:
(902) 542-9499
Corpus Christi
St. John Windsor
and
Corpus Christi
St. Joseph Kentville
Are seeking
Hospitality Ministers (Greeters)
Ushers (collection also)
Lectors
To Volunteer
Contact your Community Liaison
St. John
St. Joseph
Corpus Christi St. Joseph Weymouth
is looking for someone to take over the cemetery. The new volunteer will be guided and assisted as he or she takes over the role.
If you are interested please call Pete at 902 841- 0459 or Jerry at 902 837-4934. The current volunteer is now 80 years old and it is time for someone new to take on this job. It is not a hard job, but we do need someone to look after it.
· Bars of hand soap
· Shampoo
· Toothpaste
· Store bought Jam
· Table salt
Donations can be dropped off at Corpus Christi St. Monica or delivered to a church office and they will make their way to Middleton.
Chalice is a Catholic international aid charity focused on child, family, and community development. They work closely with lay people, religious missionaries, and local communities to provide care for the many children and families caught in the dehumanizing grip of poverty. This month they are highlighting the radiance of their Asia region.
For more info visit their website.
Join us on Facebook in our Prayer Group. You can request prayers for your intentions from our Facebook prayer team or you can join in and pray with us, or both! It is a way for us to share community even when we cannot gather for prayer.
Hail Mary Project
We have surpassed 2,000,000 Hail Mary's as part of our Hail Mary Project.
Fr. Keith left it up to us, the Parishioners, to choose our next intention. The results of our survey are in:
Our next 1,000,000 Hail Mary's will be for Peace and Reconciliation.
Did you know that the library accepts donations of gently used Catholic books, CD's, Bibles, rosaries, statues and sacramentals?
Parishioners can donate books and sacramentals to the Library so they can be passed on to others. Here is how your gifts and donations help others: "A parishioner brought a bag of lovely items from a friend who was sorting through the possessions of her deceased mother. I could see how well the mother had cared for them, and I will be able to find homes where they will bring comfort, inspiration, hope, and expression of faith.”
If you have extra Bibles, Catholic books, rosaries, crucifixes, holy cards, statues, greeting cards, or religious items, please contact Mary Crooks at 902-825-6495 who will add them to our library or make them available to others.
These are your Community Emails.
We used the names of the towns to make them easy to remember. No need to remember if it's "Saint" or "St" or "St." or if it's "St.Patrick" or "St.Patrick's". And no confusion as to which St. Joseph church you're emailing!!
Just the name of the town followed by @ followed by CorpusChristiNS.ca
Easy Peasy!
Why not try it out - send a hello email to your Community Liaison and thank him or her for helping out!
If you have questions about what is going on in your church community, you can email your Community Liaison. Each church has its own email address. Make sure to add your Community's email to your address book.
We used the names of the towns to make them easy to remember. No need to remember if it's "Saint" or "St" or "St." or if it's "St.Patrick" or "St.Patrick's". And no confusion as to which St. Joseph church you're emailing!!
Just the name of the town followed by @ followed by CorpusChristiNS.ca
Easy Peasy!
Why not try it out - send a hello email to your Community Liaison and thank him or her for helping out!
If you have questions about what is going on in your church community, you can email your Community Liaison. Each church has its own email address. Make sure to add your Community's email to your address book.
Our new parish is governed in new ways. We are highlighting our Parish Organization for you as we all learn to work together in new ways, leading to a model of our Parish Organization that you'll find on our new and revised website.
Please pray for our Parish Leadership Team, the Parish Pastoral Council, the Parish Finance and Administrative Council, the Community Life Teams and our Community Liaisons.
We introduced the members of our Parish Pastoral Council during Lent. Each of the members of the PPC answered three questions to help you get to know them a little better. We followed up by introducing our Parish Community Liaisons. We hope these series helped you to feel more connected to those who have volunteered to help take our Parish forward into the future.
In the next series, coming up later this Fall, we will introduce the Parish Leadership Team.
Please pray for our Parish Leadership Team, the Parish Pastoral Council, the Parish Finance and Administrative Council, the Community Life Teams and our Community Liaisons.
We introduced the members of our Parish Pastoral Council during Lent. Each of the members of the PPC answered three questions to help you get to know them a little better. We followed up by introducing our Parish Community Liaisons. We hope these series helped you to feel more connected to those who have volunteered to help take our Parish forward into the future.
In the next series, coming up later this Fall, we will introduce the Parish Leadership Team.
One way for us to stay connected is through our Facebook page.
Visit us on Facebook and join in the conversation. Join one of our Social Groups. Stay connected even when you can't get to Mass or get out and socialize in person. We're meeting every day on Facebook and sharing our faith. Please join us.
Voting as a Catholic
As Election Day (September 20) gets closer and closer, Catholics are being encouraged to vote. If you are looking for resources to help you determine how will vote you may want to check out an organization called Catholic Conscience. This organization is Canada’s non-partisan Catholic civic and political leadership and engagement organization.
They offered party platform comparisons and other election information.
Their mission is civic evangelization through Catholic social teaching: forming citizens in the full breadth of our faith’s social vision, and thereby forming our Catholic community into a diverse, influential, and gently persuasive family of voices within Canadian civil society and politics. To learn more go to catholicconscience.org
Year of St. Joseph
Click on the image of St. Joseph to visit the CCCB webpage dedicated to the Year of St. Joseph.
Archbishop Dunn has invited the faithful to renew their devotion to Saint Joseph. The Holy Father designated this year a Year of Saint Joseph to encourage the faithful to learn more about the spouse of the Blessed Mother and foster father of Jesus. We offer a resource list of devotions at www.halifaxyarmouth.org/Lent in the prayer box.
Pope Francis’ Prayer for Protection during the Coronavirus Pandemic:
O Mary, you shine continuously on our journey as a sign of salvation and hope. We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick. At the foot of the Cross you participated in Jesus’ pain, with steadfast faith. You, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we need. We are certain that you will provide, so that, as you did at Cana of Galilee, joy and feasting might return after this moment of trial. Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform ourselves to the Father’s will and to do what Jesus tells us: He who took our sufferings upon Himself, and bore our sorrows to bring us, through the Cross, to the joy of the Resurrection.
Amen.
We seek refuge under your protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our pleas – we who are put to the test – and deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.
Stay up to date. You can check out the latest info by clicking on the links below. At this time, there are no in-person Masses.
Church Attendance Update
We are now in Phase 4 of the provincial government's reopening plan. In Phase 4 the maximum number of participants for faith gatherings increased but all other Covid protocols remain. Please continue to register, sanitize, wear masks and sit where assigned by the ushers and to remain seated until directed by an usher to leave. Do not come to Mass if you have any symptoms of Covid or if you are feeling unwell.
The next phase - Phase V - is expected to deploy on September 15 provided we, as a Province, have reached 75% of the population fully vaccinated.
On August 26, Archbishop Dunn issued a statement encouraging all to get vaccinated.
In-person Masses resumed the weekend of July 3 / 4. All the same Covid protocols still apply. Pre-registering for Mass makes it easier for everyone, so please follow your church community's procedure for registering for Mass. If you have questions you can email or you can call the Kentville Parish Office during office hours:
Knowing who you are is important. As followers of Christ, we know we are sons and daughters of Christ, individually. Yet we live our faith communally as part of a parish. What is the identity of your parish. In the last 18 months, the parishes of the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth have not only lived a new reality in light of a global pandemic but ALSO as new parishes.
“Evangelization – proclaiming the good news of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ – is the primary activity of the Church. Each new Parish must have a plan for evangelization with a commitment to a particular program of evangelization. Significant time, energy, and resources should be invested in reaching the various audiences of the new evangelization: those who have never heard the Word of God, those who have heard the Word of God but fallen away, and those who have heard the Word of God yet require ever deepening conversion”
Which one of our parish churches once included lanes for bowling in the hall?
St. Patrick, Digby
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St. Joseph, Kentville
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Churches don't have bowling lanes!
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Parishioners can donate books and sacramentals to the Library so they can be passed on to others. Mary Crooks, who leads this Ministry, tells the Bulletin, "Often, someone will come to me looking for a certain item, such as a Bible, and I will have it for them due to the generosity of others. Sometimes people bring religious items that belonged to their parents and they want me to find a good home for them. The Holy Spirit has a great way of matching a gift with the right person."If you have extra Bibles, Catholic books, rosaries, crucifixes, holy cards, statues, greeting cards, or religious items, please contact Mary Crooks at 902-825-6495 who will add them to our library or make them available to others.
Thank you for your donations to Corpus Christi.
Your Parish Administrative Team, that includes many volunteers, manages the counting of collections each week, making bank deposits, doing the bookkeeping, issuing annual tax receipts, and many other aspects of Parish Giving.
You can donate through:
- Weekly offering envelopes
- Cash donations in the collection basket at Mass
- E-transfers directly to Corpus Christi's bank account
- PAR - pre-authorized remittances from your bank account to Corpus Christi's bank account
- Mailing a cheque to the Kentville Parish Office.
Thank you so much for all your generous donations to Corpus Christi. Please continue to make your donations online as you are able.
Kings Kikima Granny
Yard Sale
Drop off Friday Sept 24..1-6
15 Chestnut Ave, Wolfville
Sale Sat. Sept 25….8-1
15 Chestnut Ave
Rain or shine.
No books or clothing
All proceeds go to Supporting Grannies and their grandchildren in Kikima, Kenya
The Kings-Kikima Grannies began about 12 years ago to help grandmothers in Africa who are raising their grandchildren because their children have died from HIV/AIDS. They are grandmothers and grand-others from Kings County Nova Scotia who are connected with a group of 30 grandmothers in Kikima, Kenya who are raising their grandchildren and who need support.
Please remember to support our advertisers. They help make the bulletin possible and our local businesses need our support during these times. You'll find a list of all our advertisers on the parish website.