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Pastor: Rev. Francis dela Cruz 1346 Gordon Drive, Kelowna, BC (Corner
of Gordon Drive and Fuller Avenue)
ST PIUS X DIRECTORY PARISH STAFF Pastor......................................................
Rev Francis dela Cruz Office
Manager........................................
Douglas Greenwood Religious
Education...........................................
Carol Pounder Custodian.........................................................
Nuno Henriques ...........................................................................
Maria Henriques Financial
Chairperson.......................................
Dennis Barnes Parish
Council Chairperson..............................
Peter Cimbaro Maintenance
Chairperson...............................
Martin Landry Liturgy
Committee Chairperson............................
Mike Sehn PARISH
COUNCIL MEMBERS Peter
Cimbaro Victoria
Oppertshauser Michael
Davidson Carol
Pounder Dennis
Barnes Martin
Landry Bev
Smith Rosemary
Lalonde Mike
Sehn CONTACT
NUMBERS Parish
Office
Phone:..................................
250-762-2587
Fax:.......................................
250-762-2584
Email:....................... spx@shawcable.com
Web:....................................
www.spxbc.org Religious
Education Office (Carol).................
250-762-6841 Parish
Hall...........................................................
250-762-0260 St.
Vincent de Paul.............................................
250-762-2577 Rachel’s
Vineyard..............................................
250-762-2273
Toll-free............................
1-877-683-2273 Canadian
Food for Children (Rosemary)...... 778-478-2156 Knights
of Columbus (Murray).......................
250-712-0701
(Peter)...........................
250-763-5830 Knights
of Columbus Insurance (Chris)......... 778-754-0591 CWL
(Victoria)...................................................
250-712-0701 Altar
Servers (Mike)...........................................
250-763-3143 CATHOLIC
SCHOOLS Immaculata
High School.................................
250-762-2730 St.
Joseph’s Elementary School.......................
250-763-3371 www.kelownacatholic.org Our
Lady of Lourdes School............................
250-768-9008
DEADLINE
FOR SUBMITTING ITEMS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE BULLETIN IS THURSDAY NOON ALL
ANNOUNCEMENTS MUST BE CLEARED BY THE OFFICE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY MORNING. ST PIUS X NEWS A
BIBLICAL WALK THROUGH THE MASS
Come,
understand and appreciate the beauty, meaning and scriptural foundation of the
new Mass. You are invited to
participate in a six week DVD and study group presentation of “A Biblical
Walk Through the Mass” by Edward Sri of Ascension Press Sun Jan 15 – Feb
19 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm at St Pius X Parish Hall.
Cost is $22 for course materials. This course will be facilitated by
Robert Pounder. Pre-register by
calling the office at 250-762-2587. DRAWING
GOD A
children’s Sunday school teacher encouraged her five year olds to create an
art masterpiece that related to the Bible. As she wandered around the room
looking at the pictures, she came to little Alice. “Alice, what are you
drawing?” “I’m
drawing God.” “But
no one knows what God looks like, Alice.” Without
missing a beat, Alice replied, “They will when I’m finished.” LOVE
IS THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY The
Ark of the Covenant Intercessors Group will be presenting a series of talks by
scripture scholar Frances Hogan entitled “Love is the More Excellent Way”
The series will begin Tuesday January 10 after the 9:00 am Mass at St Pius.
For more info and to register call Linda at 250-868-9688 or Joanna at
250-862-9288. All are welcome. CHILI
CHARITY Join
us for Lunch on Sun, Jan 29th at 12:00 noon at St. Pius X Church. A
delicious, home-cooked Chili lunch will be served. The death toll from one of
the country's worst natural disasters in two decades has risen to 1,249 with
about 1,100 missing. Typhoon Sendong sent torrents of water, mud, and logs
cascading through riverside and coastal villages on Mindanao Island in
mid-December, destroying more than 10,000 houses and displacing more than
300,000 people. All
donations will go to the Okanagan Filipino Club's Typhoon Sendong Relief Fund.
Fr. Rex, who is from the affected area, will send all funds to survivors
through Saint Augustine Cathedral, Seat of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de
Oro. SOCIAL JUSTICE CURRENT
NEEDS AT FREEDOM'S DOOR We
find ourselves in need of a few Washing Machines in good working condition as
well as bedding. We have primarily single beds but there are a few
double beds in our House 4 as well as one King size bed in our Manager’s
Suite in House 4 so bedding for any size bed is welcomed. We can be contacted
at 250-717-0435 for pick up or if anyone would like to drop them off our
address is 1279 Centennial Crescent. EXTRA
FOODS TAPES Please, continue to save your food tapes from Extra
Foods and deposit them in the box at the back of the church. They are picked
up regularly. If the tapes are cut
off and do not have a date, they must be discarded. The food vouchers
have been invaluable to the services of Reach Out Youth and Family Services
for the past 16 years. They are urgently needed. They may expire if
they are not turned in as soon as possible. If you have any saved, please
remember to bring them to church with you. Thank you!
“Our lives wouldn’t have been the same without
this healing retreat. We feel that
the retreat has put us down the path of healing and our relationship with God
has been renewed, revived and rejuvenated!” -
Couple’s testimony after a Rachel’s
Vineyard Retreat™ Come on a retreat and experience a renewed
relationship with Our Lord and receive His healing mercy and love. Abortion
AfterCare-Healing 250-762-2273
rv.kelowna@hotmail.com PROJECT
GROW AND BICYCLES FOR HUMANITY Feb 4th at 6:30 pm at St. Charles
Garnier (after 5:00 Mass ) staff from UBCO will show slides of goats, donkeys,
mosquito nets etc. which were distributed in Vida's village in Ghana to which
you so generously have donated over $1,000. Feb 18th at 6:30 pm at St. Charles
Garnier will be a slide presentation by Jim Couper showing how the bikes from
Kelowna are being distributed and Vida will talk about receiving 80 bikes for
her village this November. These events are free and there will be pizza
and juice by donation at 6:00 pm. NEWS FROM AROUND THE DIOCESE CALLING
ALL ARTISTS!
Holy Spirit Parish will be hosting a Art Show
and Sale of original paintings on Sat, Feb 25th entitled "Warm
Hearts & Open Arms". This will be a juried art show open to artists
who are currently parishioners from Roman Catholic parishes in the Kelowna,
Westbank and Winfield areas. If you are an artist and would like to
participate in our Art Show, or for information on the criteria required,
please contact Maryanne at the parish office (250-765-1327), or email: holyspirit@shawbiz.ca by Fri, Jan 27th.
PLEASE NOTE: participating artists
must be current parishioners within our Deanery. SETON
HOUSE OF PRAYER FUNDRAISING DINNER
CURSILLO
MASS We are holding a Mass on Feb 2nd at
07:00 pm at Immaculate Conception Parish to celebrate and pray for our
movement following mass we will meet for coffee in the hall. MASS
AT BIG WHITE Mass at Big White will be at 3:30 pm
Sundays in the Schumann House, a large stone house across from the gondolas
and the main ticket office until March 25th, 2012. K
OF C BROTHERHOOD BANQUET The Fr. DeLestre Knights of Columbus are
hosting their 38th annual Brotherhood Banquet on Wed Feb 1st
at the Rutland Centennial Hall. Social hour starts at 6:00 pm followed by
dinner at 7:00 pm. There will be a Guest Speaker. Admission is $15.00. It is a great opportunity to meet members of
the many different service & fraternal groups in Kelowna. This year we are
asking our wives to join us. THE
MILITIA IMMACULATA We will celebrate our monthly masses on the first
Saturday of each month at ICC at 9:00 am with Celebrants
Fr. Sebastian and Fr. Cerlouie. Confessions will be available from 8:00
to 8:45 am; the Rosary will be prayed at 8:30 am. Coffee social will
follow in Charity Hall. Our
next mass will be Sat Feb 4. Everyone welcome to join us. Consecration to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, following
the Spirituality of St. Maximillian Kolbe will be celebrated at the mass of
the Militia Immaculata at our mass in March. For those wishing to
prepare for this, booklets offering either the 9 or 30
day preparation format are available from Loaves & Fishes
Catholic Book Store. The books will be available following our next mass
on Sat Feb 4th, at the coffee social in Charity Hall. OTHER NEWS CATHOLIC
HEALTH ASSOCIATION BURSARIES The Catholic Health Association of BC will be
awarding two bursaries valued at $250 each to two 2012 graduating students
enrolled in a Catholic secondary school, or who are a member of a BC or Yukon
parish and enrolled in a public secondary school, or who are home-schooled.
Students are asked to submit a 500 word essay that demonstrates an
awareness and understanding of the significance of Spirituality in Health
Care. Submissions must be received
on or before March 9th, 2012. For
further details, please refer to the poster on display in the vestibule of the
church, or check the CHABC website at www.chabc.bc.ca under upcoming events. FATHER
PANDOSY MISSION AND MUSEUM
If you are interested in finding out more
please contact Alice Lundy at 250-763-3458. CURSILLO There are four options for dismissal at Mass
in the new translation. Two of which are: ·
“Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord.” ·
“Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.” These are challenging statements. These are
counter culture statements. How can we as Christians announce the Gospel of
the Lord? The easiest way is to live the Gospel where we live, work and play;
to be like Jesus in our environment, our culture. This is possible! The
Cursillos in Christianity can show how. The Diocese of Nelson Cursillo
Movement is holding Cursillo weekends in March 2012. The dates are: ·
Women’s: Mar
8 - 11 ·
Men's:
Mar 15 - 18 For info contact Pete 250-764-7615 or Gail
250-764-7007. FRIENDS
IN FAITH CATHOLIC SINGLES GROUP We invite you to our Open House on Feb 12th
at the new Catholic Pastoral Centre in the meeting room on the grounds of St.
Charles Garnier Church from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm. Refreshments will be
provided. Bring a friend and come spend a pleasant afternoon meeting other
Catholic singles. VOCATION
LIVE-IN On the weekend of Feb 3rd — 5th
there will be a Vocation Live-In for boys or young men interested in the
priesthood or the consecrated life, at the Seminary of Christ the King,
Mission, BC. For more information call 604-826-8715. PARISH
DANCE Immaculate
Conception is having a Parish Dance and everyone is Invited! Mark Friday February 10th
on your calendar and join us from 6:30 - 9:30 pm (after dinner) at the
Immaculate Conception Parish Center for a fun night of dancing and trivia
games. This is a great opportunity for young and old, singles and families to
come together. Simple refreshments will be provided and a free will offering
will be taken.
Where does the Liturgy of the Mass as we
celebrate it today come from? As
we have learned already, the Mass as celebrated by the early Christians was a
private event in the home of a family, and was very simple; but, once the Mass
became public, the ceremonies around it were enhanced, and a framework or
structure began to develop. The structure of the Mass is based on at least
five official “books” of the Roman Catholic Church. Two of these books are
contained in one – the Roman Missal. The book of prayers that the priest
uses is called the Sacramentary—one part of the Roman Missal.
This is a very important book when trying to understand the Liturgy of
the Eucharist or the Mass. The
second part of the Roman Missal is also very important.
It is called the Lectionary. This
is the collection of scriptural or Bible readings that cover the entire cycle
of the liturgical year—both for Sundays and weekdays. The third book is called the General
Instruction on the Roman Missal—sometimes referred to as the GIRM.
The GIRM has gone through four revisions (editions) since Vatican II,
the latest being published in 2002. This
General Instruction is a collection of official instructions on the how and
why of how we celebrate the liturgy. The General Introduction to the Lectionary is
the fourth document and it gives the rationale of why the church chooses
certain readings to be used at particular times of the year, and for certain
feasts and for Sundays. The fifth of our documents that determines how
we celebrate liturgy is the Calendar of the Catholic Church.
The calendar sets in place the series of Sundays and feast days, based
upon when Easter is celebrated. The
Calendar is divided primarily into Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter; the
remainder of the year we call Ordinary—or “ordinal”—as we simply count
off the remaining weeks of the year.
The calendar also includes the great saints’ days that we celebrate,
the feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as special feasts of our Lord,
such as the Body and Blood of the Lord, the Transfiguration of the Lord and
the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Since the second century the Mass, or
Eucharistic Liturgy, has had a structure that is common to all Catholics
throughout the world. There are
two major parts that make up our act of worship:
the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
Within each part there are various actions, readings and prayers.
Some of these are the same from Mass to Mass while others change each
day. In the Liturgy of the Word, the community
gathers and prepares to celebrate. The
ministers—the presider, deacon, lectors, altar servers, musicians, those who
present the offertory gifts, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion and
other ministers—along with the worshiping community begin with the
Introductory Rites. These include
the Penitential Rite, the Gloria when it is sung, and the Opening Prayer. Immediately after the Opening Prayer the
congregation sits to listen to the Scriptures proclaimed.
The readings that are heard have been chosen to help us reflect on the
particular liturgical season being celebrated.
If the Mass is during Ordinary Time, the Gospel readings tell us about
the public life of Christ. The
other two readings support the gospel or perhaps offer a related idea.
The readings are followed by a homily that helps the community to
reflect on the meaning of the readings and apply them to our own lives.
This part of the Mass concludes with the Profession of Faith in the
recitation of the Creed, followed by the intercessory prayers. The second part of the Mass is the Liturgy of
the Eucharist. The gifts of bread
and wine, along with the people’s monetary gifts (some of which are used for
the poor and needy) are brought forward. Then
the priest prays the Eucharistic Prayer on behalf of the whole assembly.
At the conclusion of this lengthy prayer, the people’s “Amen”
confirms all that has been prayed. After
the Lord’s Prayer, the Lamb of God is sung or said while the priest is
breaking the Body of Christ. Then,
the Body and Blood of Christ is received by the faithful, in Holy Communion. Following the closing prayer, the priest
blesses the people and dismisses the assembly.
The community is now sent to live the sacrament that has just been
celebrated. Sr.
Cathy Vetter, CCVI Sr.
Mary Henry, CCVI Sacred
Heart Parish, Valley Park, Missouri
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