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    St.

    Helen Church
    4106 Mountain St.
    Beamsville, ON L3J 0K9
    Ph: 905-562-7427
    Fax: 905-563-0003
    Email: [email protected]
    Opened - October 2, 1938 Est. as a Parish - January 1, 1986
    Pastor: Rev. Krzysztof Szczepanik Sunday Masses:
    Office Administration: Aggie Agnino Saturday: 5:00pm
    Sunday: 9:00am, 11:00am
    Office hours:
    Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 10:00am - 1:00pm Weekday Masses:
    Closed on Mondays, Thursday and all Statutory holidays Tuesday - Friday: 9:00am
    (unless otherwise posted in the bulletin)
    Website: www.sthelenscatholic.ca Adoration:
    Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/sthelenscatholic Daily after morning Mass weekdays

    Sacraments Contacts
    Catholic Funeral Rites:
    Baptism: When a death occurs in your family, Music Ministry:
    1st & 3rd Sunday at 12:30 pm Anthony van Engelen
    please call the Parish Office and we
    Call parish office. [email protected]
    will assist you in making the
    necessary liturgical arrangements. Ministry Scheduling & RFM:
    1st Communion & Confirmation Rebecca Williams ~ ministryschedul-
    Contact the Parish Office. Chronic Care Facilities: [email protected]
    Pastoral visits are made monthly. Fundraising Events:
    Reconciliation: Reception of Holy Communion is
    Every Saturday 4:00pm - 4:30pm or by available to residents. [email protected]
    appointment with the priest. Facility & Grounds Maintenance:
    Homebound: Craig Luey
    Marriage: Notify the Parish Office when serious [email protected]
    Arrangements six months in advance. illness occurs. When the sick, aged or
    Catholic Women's League:
    Marriage preparation is required. incapacitated are confined to home for Anna Sabucco
    an extended time, pastoral visit can be [email protected]
    RCIA & RCIC: arranged.
    Contact the Parish Office. Knights of Columbus:
    Ray Francoeur
    Anointing of the Sick: Schools [email protected]
    Please let us know when someone has St. Mark School 289-700-6342
    a serious or prolonged illness or is to Principal: Jennifer DeCoff SVDP:
    have surgery. This sacrament Vice-Principal: Joe Tolomeo Lorraine Martin ~ contact parish office
    celebrates the healing of mind and
    body and the forgiveness of sins. St. Edward School Prayer Warriors/Requests:
    Principal: Maria Romano Sandra Mactaggart ~
    [email protected]
    Kindly complete the following and place in the collection box.
    Envelopes will be on the round table in the foyer the following weekend.
    ☐ New Parishioner* ☐ Change of address ☐ Moving
    Name________________________ Phone_________________ E-mail___________________
    Address______________________________________________ City_____________________
    ☐ I would like to use offertory envelopes* Postal Code______________
    Second Sunday of Easter - Year A - Divine Mercy Sunday
    April 16, 2023
    Mass Intentions This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns in
    April 18 - April 23, 2023 memory of:
    As we gather, let us remember and pray for . . .
    Tues. ~ .....................................................…….. April 18th KEN SINCLAIR
    9:00 am + Angelina & Alex Prokich
    (Hrvatin Family)
    The Sanctuary Lamp burns to remind us of Christ’s
    Wed. ~ ........................................................….. April 19th presence in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. If you
    9:00 am + Teofila Manayay wish to sponsor the sanctuary lamp for one week,
    (Jorge Valdivia) please contact the office. The stipend is $35.00
    12:30pm School Mass
    Stewardship of Treasure
    Thurs. ~ ….......................................................... April 20th
    9:00 am + John Haight Offertory - April 9, 2023 $6,485.00
    (Tony & Maria DiStefano)
    Building Fund $1,092.00
    Fri. ~ ................................................……….. April 21st
    9:00am, + Ursula & Pietro Elia Good Friday $1,030.00
    (Connie & Louie Elia)
    Development & Peace $50.00
    Sat. ~ …............................................……….. April 22nd Holy Thursday $890.00
    5:00 pm For the People
    “May God bless you for your faithful stewardship!”
    Sun. ~ + Bernadette Driscoll April 23rd
    9:00 am (Sharon Driscoll)
    POPE FRANCIS’ APRIL INTENTION
    For a culture of peace and non violence;
    11:00 am + Rena Marcovette We pray for the spread of peace and non violence, by
    (Steve & Kate D’Onofrio) decreasing the use of weapons by States and citizens.
    ALPHA THIS WEEK This Monday we
    reflect on the Big Question - How Can I THE DIOCESAN SEPARATED & DIVORCED
    Make the Most of the Rest of My Life? HEALING MINISTRY Support Group meets every
    We'll watch a short video and discuss second and fourth Monday of the month (except
    questions like - Do you feel pressure to holidays) from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Mount Carmel
    conform? And Jesus did not come to make things easy. Spiritual Centre, 7020 Stanley Avenue, Niagara Falls.
    He came to make people great. But there are challenges For our pamphlet, information, and registration call 905
    - what are some challenges you face? Please consider -356-4113 or 905-684-0154, or email
    joining us Monday at 7:30. Join Zoom Meeting: [email protected]
    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85007756217 Meetings will be held both in person at Mount
    Carmel and virtually via Zoom platform.
    Mother’s Day Plant and Craft Show - Save the date!!
    APRIL 24, 2023 “Forgiveness and Grieving”
    Dino Sicoli, Presenter

    THURSDAY MORNING BINGO


    In the St. Helen Church Hall
    4106 Mountain Rd., Beamsville
    Doors open at 10:00am, Bingo games start at 11:00am
    Delicious Lunch Available

    FRIDAY EVENING BINGO


    Pizza available at 6pm, games start at 7:00pm
    EASTER SUNDAY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for Children Liturgy. We
    SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER are looking for mothers/fathers/teachers who will be
    willing to lead our young parishioners at their own
    All who believed were together children liturgy of the word during 11:00am Mass on
    and had all things in common. Sundays (September - June). Police check required.
    (Acts 2) If you are interested, please call parish office.
    God has given us a new birth
    into a living hope through the FEAST OF DIVINE MERCY
    resurrection of Jesus Christ
    from the dead. (1 Peter) During the course of Jesus' revelations to Saint Faustina
    on the Divine Mercy He asked on numerous occasions
    After eight days Jesus came and stood among them. (John 20) that a feast day be dedicated to the Divine Mercy and
    We trace our roots as parish and faith communities to that this feast be celebrated on the Sunday after Easter.
    Easter night when Jesus “breathed” his spirit of peace and The liturgical texts of that day, the 2nd Sunday of
    reconciliation upon his frightened disciples, transforming Easter, concern the institution of the Sacrament of
    them into the new Church. Penance, the Tribunal of the Divine Mercy, and are thus
    The “peace” that Christ gives his new Church is not a already suited to the request of Our Lord. This Feast,
    passive sense of good feeling or the mere absence of which had already been granted to the nation of Poland
    conflict. Christ’s peace is hard work: the peace of the Easter and been celebrated within Vatican City, was granted to
    Christ is to honor one another as children of the same Father the Universal Church by Pope John Paul II on the
    in heaven; the peace of the Easter Christ seeks to build occasion of the canonization of Sr. Faustina on 30 April
    bridges and find solutions rather than assigning blame or 2000. In a decree dated 23 May 2000, the Congregation
    extracting punishment; the peace of Christ is centered in for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the
    relationships that are just, ethical and moral.
    Sacraments stated that "throughout
    The “peace” that the Risen Christ breathes into us at Easter the world the Second Sunday of
    shows us a way out of those tombs in which we bury Easter will receive the name Divine
    ourselves; the forgiveness he extends enables us to get Mercy Sunday, a perennial invitation
    beyond the facades we create and the rationalizations we to the Christian world to face, with
    devise to justify them. Jesus’ entrusting to the disciples the
    work of forgiveness is what it means to be the church: to
    confidence in divine benevolence, the
    accept one another, to affirm one another, to support one difficulties and trials that mankind
    another as God has done for us in the Risen Christ. What will experience in the years to come."
    brought the apostles and first Christians together as a These papal acts represent the highest
    community – unity of heart, missionary witness, prayer, endorsement that the Church can give
    reconciliation and healing – no less powerfully binds us to to a private revelation, an act of papal
    one another as the Church of today. infallibility proclaiming the certain sanctity of the
    While today’s Gospel has been ready by the Church as mystic, and the granting of a universal feast, as
    Jesus’ instituting the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the whole requested by Our Lord to St. Faustina.
    Christian community possesses the power to “forgive” and On this weekend we are celebrating the Feast of the
    “retain,” and the grace to “bind” and “loosen.” The Risen Divine Mercy. You are welcome to celebrate Divine
    Christ gives to every one of us the “power,” the “authority,” Mercy Sunday at St. Joseph Parish in Grimsby, on
    the grace to forgive and to bind one another in love. SUNDAY APRIL 16TH AT 2:30 P.M. There will be
    All of us, at one time or another, experience the doubt and a Holy Hour with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament,
    skepticism of Thomas: While we have heard the good news the prayerful recitation of the Divine Mercy chaplet and
    of Jesus’ empty tomb, all of our fears, problems and sorrows individual confessions as well.
    prevent us from realizing it in our own lives. In raising his
    beloved Son from the dead, God also raises our spirits to the Apr. 17 - Rev. Stephen Innamorati
    realization of the totality and limitlessness of his love for us. Apr. 18 - Rev. Jean-Bosco Iyamuremye
    We all have scars from our own Good Fridays that remain Apr. 19 - Rev. Edward Jankovwski
    long after our own experiences of resurrection. Our “nail Apr.20 - Rev. Arockia Sunil Josapath
    marks” remind us that all pain and grief, all ridicule and Apr. 21 - Rev. Mitchell Kasza
    suffering are transformed into healing and peace in the love Apr. 22 - Rev. Jose Karikompil
    of God we experience from others and that we extend them. Apr. 23 - Rev. Richard Kowalchuk
    PRAYER FOR OUR PRIESTS
    Lord Jesus Christ, You love Your church and those
    called to share your priesthood. With our love and pray-
    ers, we join you in asking our Heavenly Father to con-
    tinue to pour out his gifts of holiness, compassion and
    ardent zeal on your priests everywhere. Mary, Mother
    of all Priests, pray this prayer with us. Amen.
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