Pentecost Sunday May 19, 2024

 
        
       Our Lady of Peace Parish
Also Serving Our Lady of the Smile Parish, Waterhen Lake and
St. Jude’s Parish, Green Lake

Office Hours: Closed Monday
Tuesday - Friday 1-4:00 pm
Office Phone:  306-236-5122 
Cell Phone: 306-304-7271

Parish Email: [email protected] Pastor Email: [email protected]
Facebook: Catholic Church Meadow Lake
Website: https://www.meadowlakecatholicchurch.com/
Address: 504-3rd Ave. East, Meadow Lake, SK S9X 1H5  
 
 Lord, send forth your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
Psalm 104 Refrain
  
Our Vision:
A Community of Disciples
Our Mission
We commit to form disciples
who joyfully and faithfully
live out the mission of
Jesus Christ
by enriching our relationship
with God and neighbour
through the intercession of
Our Lady of Peace.
Pastor: 
Fr. Uche Umechikelu, MSP
Parish Secretary:
Pat Bencharski
 
Masses
Intentions

When there is a funeral, the daily mass will normally be cancelled.  Check Facebook for the most up-to-date information.  On Tuesday to Friday and on Sunday, Our Lady of Peace masses will be livestreamed on Facebook.

Mon., May 20 – No mass
 
Tues., May 21 – Liturgy with Communion at the Lodge
 
Tues., May 21 – 6:30 pm (Our Lady of Peace Church & Facebook) - +Josh DeLaRonde by Roy Shkopich

Wed., May 22 – 6:30 pm (Our Lady of Peace Church & Facebook) - +Louis Chatelaine by Roy Shkopich

Thurs., May 23 – Adoration before mass
 
Thurs., May 23 – 9:30 am (Our Lady of Peace Church & Facebook) - +Norman Poitras Family by Roy Shkopich

Fri., May 24 – 9:30 am (Our Lady of Peace Church & Facebook) - For healing for Robert Opikokew; +Marius Durocher by Peter Durocher

Sat. May 25 – 5:00 pm (St. Jude’s Green Lake) - People of God

Sun., May 26 – 10:00 am (Our Lady of Peace Church & Facebook) - People of God

Sun., May 26 – 3:00 pm (Our Lady of the Smile Waterhen) - People of God

THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH

1. Daily rosary during the month of May – Monday to Friday at 6:00 pm and Sundays before mass.
2. Pastoral Council Meeting Tuesday, May 21 after evening mass.
3. Meeting for the ladies of the parish after mass Wednesday, May 22.
4. We have started Children’s Liturgy during mass for children 6 and under.

Sunday Collection – May 12:  Meadow Lake $1235.80   Green Lake $310.00  Children’s Collection $13.50
 
Sunday Church Attendance – May 12 - Adults 153  Children  29   Total  182
                                               
The Pope’s Prayer Intention for May – for the formation of religious and seminarians – We pray that religious women and men, and seminarians, grow in their own vocations through their human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation, leading them to be credible witnesses to the Gospel.

​World Day of Prayer for the Church in China – May 24 – In May 2007, Pope Benedict XVI asked that May 24 be observed as a Day of Prayer of the Church in China. He chose this day since it is the traditional Feast of Our Lady of Help of Christians, venerated at the Shrine of Sheshan in Shanghai.         Taken from Ordo page 134
 
New Parish Secretary – The parish is beginning to look for a replacement for the parish secretary who is looking to retire. It is a part-time position, approximately 12 hours per week. For more details please contact the office.
 
Registration for RCIA Classes – Anyone who wishes to register for RCIA in preparation for joining the Church Easter 2025 is asked to contact the office during the month of May. Classes will begin in the first week of June and will be held twice a month – dates and times to be announced before classes commence.
 
Our Lady of Peace Graduation Scholarship – We are planning to present scholarships to graduates who want to pursue educational opportunities. We are asking for donations from parishioners to help fund the Scholarship.  Thank you in advance for your support.
 
Scripture Insights – Pentecost Sunday
Taken from Source Book for Sundays, Seasons and Weekdays 2024:  The Almanac for Pastoral Liturgy, LTP Liturgy Training Publications Copyright 2023, 3949 South Racine Avenue, Chicago, IL 60609, pg. 208.
 
 In these readings, the Holy Spirit is the actor, the subject, the doer of all the verbs. The hymn ”Veni, Sancte Spiritus” asks the Spirit to shine, fill, heal, renew, wash, bend, melt, warm, guide, and give joy. In Acts 2, the disciples are first passive recipients of the Spirit’s power; the tongues of fire were perceived by them, and they were filled. Only after the Spirit empowers them do they begin to speak. Paul declares that the Galatians are led by either the Spirit or the law. In John 15 and 16, the Spirit is the active subject of all the verbs: testify, guide, speak, glorify, take, declare. The disciples’ role? To listen and to be led.
Letting ourselves be led isn’t easy. We’re taught to forge our own paths. These readings call us to learn to be led, to become sensitive to the guiding nudges of the Spirit. This does not mean that Christians remain passive. In Acts, as in John, the disciples of Jesus are commissioned to bear witness to the Good News in their preaching, healing, and teaching. But the Spirit’s power is the source of ours.
The Spirit’s work is primary, and ours is secondary. The Christian’s job is to bear fruit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These virtues may not come naturally to us; some of them might take hard work. As Paul graphically says, we must crucify our sinful desires first. Pentecost teaches that the fruit of the Spirit is finally the result of the Spirit’s cultivation of the soil of our hearts rather than our striving. We prepare the soil; the Spirit grows the seed.
                    

• We have arrived at the final day of Easter Time! “Alleluia” has filled our hearts for fifty days now. Why fifty? In Scripture, seven often symbolizes the number of perfection. Seven days in a week, times seven weeks, gets us to forty-nine; add one to reach fifty, because God is always more than even our most perfect praise!

·         while there are options for the second reading and the Gospel today, the first reading is always proclaimed. It is a message of diversity of peoples and languages. Who is in your community? What languages and ethnicities are represented? How do we honor this representation and celebrate our unity in the midst of so much diversity?
·         Those who have received the sacrament of confirmation recently may remember well their discourse about the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. How are those gifts made manifest in our communities today? What are the gifts we still need to ask God to send us, so that together with our Advocate we might learn to love as Christ loved us?