Fr. John MacPherson, Pastor Fr. Keith Billard, Associate Pastor Fr. Raymond Odumoku, Associate Pastor
Bulletin for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
WINDSOR Saturday 4 pm Sunday 11:45 am
KENTVILLE Saturday 4 pm Sunday 8:30 & 11:45 am
WOLFVILLE Sunday 10 am
BERWICK Sunday 8:30 am
November 14, 2021
MIDDLETON Sunday 10:00 am BRIDGETOWN
DIGBY
NOTE
TIME CHANGE
Saturday 4 pm
Sunday 8:30 am ANNAPOLIS ROYAL
WEYMOUTH Sunday 11:30 am
Vision Prayer 1st Reading
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.
Sun, Nov 14
DANIEL 12:1-3
Mon, Nov 15
1 MACCABEES 1:10-15, 4143, 54-57, 62-63 2 MACCABEES 6:18-31 SIRACH 26:1-3, 15-18, 24 ACTS 28:11-16, 30-31 1 MACCABEES 4:36-37, 5259 1 MACCABEES 6:1-13
Tue, Nov 16
Wed, Nov 17 Thu, Nov 18 Fri, Nov 19 Sat, Nov 20
Gospel
MARK 13:24-32 LUKE 18:35-43 LUKE 19:1-10 MATT 25:31-40 MATT 14:22-33 LUKE 19:45-48 LUKE 20:27-40
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Kentville 4:00 PM Windsor 4:00 PM Digby 4:00 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 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 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Online 8:30 AM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Online 8:30 AM Digby 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Online 8:30 AM Weymouth 6:30 PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Online 8:30 AM Weymouth 10:30 AM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Online 8:30 AM Digby 9:00 AM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Kentville 4:00 PM Windsor 4:00 PM Digby 4:00 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Bridgetown 8:30 AM Berwick 8:30 AM Kentville 8:30 AM Annapolis Royal 9:00 AM Middleton 10:00 AM
Gordon Gould by Jean & Family Souls in Purgatory Shirley Ritchie by Harold & Family Intentions of Tom & Lois Porter by St Alphonsus Ladies Aux Sue McDonald by Mary Stevenson
Liturgy of the Word with Communion Souls in Purgatory by Marilyn Harry Bertha Risten by Peggy Foley All Corpus Christi Parishioners Danny Boudreau by Doris Weir Delores Riggs by Josie & Family Phyllis Grant by Paul DuMesnil Souls in Purgatory Souls in Purgatory Lorraine Benedict by Mike & Blanche Gilhen Lourens & Maria Smolenaars by Peter & Agnes Nan Keith Fougere by Betty Rice
Bernie Fitzgerald by Wife & Son Edward Rice by Betty Rice Intentions of Rose Longley by Carolyn Gilbert Vince Kavanagh by Anna & Danny
Bernard Lewis by Jean & Family Linda Strickey by her Family Nelson, Regine & Daniel McCauley by Louise Gladus Newton by St Alphonsus Ladies Auxillary
Liturgy of the Word with Communion Holy Souls in Purgatory by Don Muise Priests in Purgatory by Marilyn Harry John Currie by Gordon & Helen MacDonald
Wolfville
10:00 AM
Faithful Departed by Truus Ueffing
Weymouth Kentville Windsor
11:30 AM 11:45 AM 11:45 AM
Mr. Doelle (Seigmar’s Father) by Wayne & Nora Comeau John McCabe by Mari & Family Phyllis Grant by Terry & Eleanor McKiel
Horizons of Hope: A Toolkit for Catholic Parishes on Palliative Care On November 15 and 16, 2021 the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops will launch Horizons of Hope: A Toolkit for Catholic Parishes on Palliative Care. The launch marks the culmination of a fouryear process whereby the CCCB partnered with experts from Pallium Canada, Dominican University College, the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, Catholic Health Alliance of Canada, and the Congregation of the Sisters Saint Joseph in Canada. This partnership ensured the development of a highlevel resource that will benefit Catholic parishioners eager to grow in their understanding of palliative care and Church teaching on end-of-life questions. More information is available online on YouTube: or via a Zoom presentation For more information, please contact Mrs. Michelle Dabrowski at m.dabrowski@cccb.ca or Mrs. Marg SheaLawrence at m.shea-lawrence@cccb.ca.
In November, as we pray for the faithful departed, we seek light and hope in our own journey of life and death, as well as the journey of those whom we cherish. In her book "Rediscovering the Art of Dying: How Jesus' Experience and Our Stories Reveal a New Vision of Compassionate Care," Sr. Nuala Kenny explores how our experiences of illness and dying - as individuals, family, friends, and caregivers - can be transformed as we walk with Jesus through the Passion and become witnesses of faith and trust to others. $18.95
Please contact Mary Crooks at 902-825-6495 for more information.
To celebrate prayerfully the Advent-Christmas-Epiphany season of Light, we are offering five weekly sessions on-line designed to help participants develop one’s relationship with Christ Jesus by praying with the Sunday scriptures of Advent.
Fr. Earl Smith SJ and Fr. Charlie Pottie, SJ., both seasoned Jesuits and Ignatian spiritual guides, will lead the sessions and help participants to encounter Jesus through prayer forms such as reading of scriptures (lectio divina), reflection, Ignatian imaginative contemplative prayer and sharing. Each session will include a short instruction on prayer, reading and pondering scripture or guided imaginative prayer, and spiritual conversations. It will begin with a focus on Christ the King on Thursday, Nov 18 at 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm - Atlantic Time, 7:30 pm to 8:45 NL time and will continue the following 4 Thursdays of Advent. There is no charge. For more information and to register contact experiencingprayer@gmail.com
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We are now in Phase 5. Our Archdiocese has provided Covid Guidelines and our Pastor has put in place certain guidelines for us to follow: MASKS MUST BE WORN
There will be no entrance procession at Mass.
You are encouraged to use the hand sanitizers
Collection baskets will remain at the entrances/exits
provided at the entrance to the church
for weekly offerings. Consider making your offering
Holy Water fonts will remain empty for now
via e-transfer or PAR.
Limit washroom use as much as possible
Communion may only be received in the hand
You must stay home and participate online
Daily Mass attendance fmust follow these protocols
if you have any Covid symptoms
Social distancing is not required, but generally
Proof of vaccination is not required to attend Mass,
speaking, maintaining a safe distance around people
however everyone is encouraged to get vaccinated
you do not know is recommended to help stop the
Advance registration is not required
spread of Covid
Answering a Covid questionnaire is no longer
You can read the full text of the Archbishop’s Phase 5 Letter and review all the
required You can arrange Confession by appointment. Call or email your nearest Parish Office. Call your nearest Parish Office to arrange a Baptism. If you are planning on getting married at a Corpus Christi church, contact the Parish Office nearest you. To register in the next First Communion or Confirmation class, or to get more information about Children’s Faith Formation, contact
Jennifer Moore familylifeandyouth@ corpuschristins.ca
902-799-1250
Exploring becoming Catholic? Contact the Kentville Parish Office.
recommendations at the Archdiocese website.
Jennifer Moore, our Director of Family Life and Youth, is excited to bring EMPOWER AND EMPOWERED BY THE SACRAMENTS to all the children of
Corpus Christi Parish!! Registration is open now for Empowered by the Sacraments for the 2021/22 year! 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 inperson sessions will take place throughout the year and children will receive their Sacraments in their own church communities. REGISTER ON THE WEBSITE
First Communion Date
The children who prepared for First Communion this past spring will receive the Sacrament on Sunday, November 28 at the following Corpus Christi churches: St. Joseph Kentville @ 8:30 AM Mass St. Francis Wolfville @ 10:00 AM Mass St. John, Windsor @ 11:45 AM Mass Please keep these Young Catholics in your prayers.
Confirmation Date
Our Confirmandi who have been journeying together since before Covid began will be confirmed by Archbishop Dunn on November 17, 2021 at 7 pm at Corpus Christi St. Joseph Kentville. Please keep these young people in your prayers as they prepare to be fully received into the Church as they are confirmed.
New Confirmation Class So far our new Confirmation Class has 24 young people registered from all across the Parish. Please add these young people to your prayers. We are also seeking leaders in Kentville, Berwick, Windsor and Digby to support these young people on their faith journey. Contact Jennifer Moore for information on how you can be part of this dedicated team. To join the Confirmation Class
REGISTER ON THE WEBSITE
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 • Little Church Leader SIGN UP ON THE WEBSITE
Leaders and helpers are required to be fully vaccinated. Please contact Jennifer Moore for information. All those who volunteer to work with our Child and Youth programs must participate in the Responsible Ministry protocols set out by the Archdiocese. More information is available from our Parish Responsible Ministry Co-ordinator who can be reached at the Kentville Parish Office. Visit https:// www.halifaxyarmouth.org/admin-services/responsible -ministry to read the information package and download forms.
A note from your Corpus Christi Vincentians (Wolfville/Canning Conference):
Pope Francis established the World Day of the Poor following the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy in November 2016. In our prayers as members of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, we ask the Lord to ‘make us responsive to the Christian calling to seek and find the forgotten, the suffering, or the deprived’. On November 14, we encourage all
parishioners to meditate on Pope Francis’ 2021 message, in which he concludes:
“It is my hope that the celebration of the World
Prayer for World Day of the Poor God of Abraham, Everywhere we go we see Lazarus. But we also see so many doors, doors that separate us from Lazarus. Lord, teach us to open those doors To Lazarus, to the poor, to help them find a just share of your bounty. This World Day of the Poor, help us all turn to those outside our door, to bless, heal and comfort them. Help us to build a world together, where the poor are strangers to none, and the very chains of poverty are broken. Amen. Harvest House operates an overnight shelter in the Windsor area. It has been running at full capacity and beyond. There is a real need for volunteers, particularly people available for overnight supervision. To volunteer, please contact Donna Eldridge at 902-790-4560.
Day of the Poor, now in its fifth year, will grow in our local Churches and inspire a movement of evangelization that meets the poor personally wherever they may be. We cannot wait for the poor to knock on our door; we need urgently to reach them in their homes, in hospitals and nursing homes, on the streets and in the dark corners where they sometimes hide, in shelters and reception centres. It is important to understand how they feel, what they are experiencing and what their hearts desire.”
Chalice, a Catholic Charity, invites you to share the blessings of Christmas with children in the developing world. Our Christmas Gift Catalogue allows you to purchase a gift for someone in need in honour of a friend or a loved one. To order gifts, please call 1-800-776-6855 or visit chalice.ca
Corpus Christi St. Monica CWL President is Bernadette Burns
Knights of Columbus - Greenwood and Middleton
bernadetteburns54@gmail.com
Ray Hull is the Grand Knight for Bishop Gallagher Council 6297 (902) 840-3093 hullraymond281177@outlook.com
(902) 765-8643 Corpus Christi St Louis Contact person is Eloise Mailman. eloise.mailman@gmail.com (902) 532-2205 Corpus Christi St. Joseph CWL Contact Pat Crossman: pcrossman@eastlink.ca 902-385-6760
The contact for St Anthony Berwick is Leon Zwicker. He is the representative for the Greenwood/ Middleton Knights of Columbus. e_zwicker@yahoo.ca (902) 847-5746 Knights of Columbus - Windsor/St. John Gary Brown garydbrown2003@yahoo.ca
The Knights of Columbus Council 6297 need volunteers to help make soup and sandwiches and provide cookies for the Take Out Soup Kitchen on 1st and 4th Wednesdays at St. Monica's Church. There’s a sign up sheet at the church or contact Roger Lirette at 902-824-3467 or 902-765-3086
Knights of Columbus Council 5030 meet at St. Joseph, Kentville 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 November 3. For more info contact John Boulter johnboulter7@gmail.com
Corpus Christi St. Joseph Weymouth
Decorating our Churches for Christmas
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.
It is time again to think about decorating our churches for Christmas. You can donate to the flower fund for your church by dropping an envelope in the collection basket marked “Flowers” and add the name of your church. Include your envelope number as well so that you receive your tax receipt. Or send your flowers donation to finance@corpuschristins.ca via e-transfer and include Flowers, the name of your church and your envelope number in the comment box. Questions? Email or call the Kentville Parish Office.
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.
First Sunday of Advent November 28 Corpus Christi St. John Windsor The Gifting Tree will appear on the first Sunday of Advent, November 28. The ornaments represent gifts for families in need. If you pick an ornament, please return the present, gift wrapped, by Sunday, December 12 with the ornament taped to the gift.
Sunday, November 21, 3 PM to 6 PM
Corpus Christi St. Patrick Digby Take Out Supper On the menu: Seafood Chowder served with a roll, Pie (apple, pecan, blueberry or rhubarb strawberry) Cost $ 15.00. Purchase coupons for this supper in advance. Pick up at the Digby Parish Office any Wednesday or Thursday or purchase from Monika Treleaven, Chuck Mills, Louise McCauley or Lorraine Bell. Pick up for the supper will be at the Rectory Hall (First Ave entrance) on Sunday, November 21, 2021 from 3 – 6 pm.
Thank you in advance for helping!! Corpus Christi St. Anthony Berwick It's time to think about our Social Action helping ten needy families in our community. Due to Covid-19, things will be a little different this year. We need a few shoppers to watch the weekly flyers for specials. Contact Elaine Mailman at 902-847-0480 and she will give a short list of things to shop for. Keep receipts for reimbursement. If you prefer you could make a donation in a separate envelope marked Berwick Christmas Food Hamper and with your envelope number noted on the outside.
The Angel Tree will appear very soon, stay tuned.
Saturday, November 27 10 AM to 3 PM Corpus Christi St. Anthony Berwick 120 Mill St., Berwick is hosting
“Trees and Nativity Scenes From Near and Far” All Corpus Christi Parishioners and friends are invited. If you have a nativity scene you would like to display please contact: Eileen @902-538-9135 anytime or Elisabeth @902-847-3503 evenings only.
Please respond by the deadline: November 20. There will be a Free Will offering to go toward the Christmas hampers.
Employment Opportunities The pandemic has left many looking for work. Maybe you or someone you know has some great skills and gifts that could help renew our local Church. There are several job posting on the Archdiocese’s Human Resources page. You may just find the exact job you – or someone you know – is looking for! Check out www.halifaxyarmouth.org and click on Employment Opportunities under Administrative Services.
Sunday November 21 Year of St. Jo seph Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man. Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life. Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen. Prayer: © Libreria Editrice Vaticana
Daily Mass is streamed at 8:30 AM Monday through Friday. Sunday Mass is streamed at 11:45 AM. Watch on our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/corpuschristins
Congratulations to Maureen Maclean
Cooperative.
In case you missed it, our very own Maureen Maclean (Corpus Christi St. Alphonsus, Bridgetown) was the recipient of the 18th Annual Valley Arts Award, which has been given since 2004 by the Deep Roots Music
Maureen hails from Middleton and has been Bridgetown’s long time Church Organist and Manager of all things music. She was raised in Liverpool, where she received her early music training. Following high school, she continued her musical studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B. The award recognizes someone who has worked for the development and/or promotion of Valley artists, arts events, or culture; and has made a significant long-term contribution to the Arts in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. “Maureen’s quiet grace and dedication always paved the way for others to take the spotlight and shine,” said Erin Hennessy, a Wolfville resident and former Middleton Choral Society (MCS) member. “Her passion for the arts has had a far-reaching ripple effect that spans multiple generations of performers, choristers, and music lovers.”
After two years teaching in Shelburne, Maureen became the Grade Primary to 6 music teacher at Middleton Elementary School in 1969. She spent 25 years there. As a member of Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers Association, Maureen has taught harmony, history, organ, piano, choir, analysis, music rudiments and accompaniment. She continues to teach two students privately. Article originally published by Saltwire Network in September 2021.
The Kentville Parish Office is open Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 9 am to Noon
The Digby Parish Office is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 am to 5 pm
Box 486 48 Belcher St Kentville, NS B4N 3X3 902-678-3303
Box 190 110 Queen St. Digby, NS B0V 1A0 902-245-2115
Jennifer Hilborn ParishOffice_Kentville@CorpusChristiNS.ca
Pam Cosman ParishOffice_Digby@CorpusChristiNS.ca
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: finance@corpuschristins.ca • PAR - pre-authorized remittances from your bank account to Corpus Christi's bank account • Mailing a cheque to the Kentville Parish Office.
Thank you for all your generous donations to Corpus Christi.
We’ve launched a new website!!! Check it out. Same address: www.corpuschristins.ca
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