705-256-2773

Mini Excavator-Bobcat-Backhoe-Driveways-Concrete Demolition-Parking Lot Sweeping– Landscaping-Snow Removal-Basement

THIS SPACE FOR RENT

Complete Automotive Repairs 534 Wallace Terrace

Tel: 254-6851

Air conditioning special-ist—wholesale & retail air conditioning Tune-ups—

Front end—Brakes—Computer work—Tires etc (ACROSS FROM THE CHURCH)

Professional Dry Cleaning & Alterations

Algoma Office Equipment John Street –945-6061

Authorized Canon Copier Dealer; Kyocera Printer dealer

Photographic Restoration Services BULLETIN ADVERTISING

If you are interested in advertising in this bulletin please call Mike, the office secretary, at 705-253-9411 or via email at

veronicassm@shaw.ca As you know the weekly bulletin goes out to all parishioners and other west end churches. This form of advertising is continuous and inexpensive.

Farewell to St. There-sa Catholic School

Come join us in

remembering

over 50 years of

excellence!

Come and Go

Farewell to St. There-sa Catholic School

Come join us in

remembering

over 50 years

Gospel Jam!

Would you enjoy listening to old-time hymns or modern

worship music being played live?

Do you enjoy singing with others in prayerful song?

Would you share your talents if you play an instrument?

Would you like to learn to play an instru-ment?

If the answer is yes to any of these ques-tions, come and join us for a good old fash-

ioned Gospel Jam Session in the St. Jerome’s Church hall on the last sunday of each

month from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. (the price of admission is your smiling face!)

Bring your song requests, voices, ears, in-struments, friends....most importantly, bring

your passion to give praise in song! Beginning July 23RD!

**Adoration Chapel located at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 114 MacDonald…open 6:00 a.m. to Midnight. Anyone can drop in for a visit. However, some Adorers do commit to a weekly hour visit. Adorers are need for Mon-day 9pm-10pm; Tuesday 2pm-3pm; Wednes-day 8pm-9pm; Friday 2pm-3pm; 9 pm-10 pm; Saturday 1pm-2pm and Sunday 6pm-7pm; 7pm-8pm; 8pm-9pm; 9pm-10pm. Contact Raf-faella at 705-206-3968.

July 16, 2017 FIFTEENTH SUNDAY OF

ORDINARY TIME

Ph: (705) 253-9411 Hall: (705) 253-4352 veronicassm@shaw.ca

Parish Priest:

Rev. Ron Ambeault

Parish Deacon:

Rev. Mr. Len Monico

Parish Council Chair:

Santa De Marco

Children Sacramental Prep. Coordinator

Fran Boyle

CWL President:

Rose Linklater

Knights of Columbus

John Sullivan

Parish Secretary:

Mike Ivany

559 Douglas Street, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6C 1V3

REGULAR CHURCH OFFICE HOURS

Tues - Friday 9:30-12:30

Reconciliation Saturdays:

3:00 - 3:30 pm

Baptism :

Expectant parents welcome to register, and speak with Fr. Ron after

Mass

Matrimony :

Must register at least eight months in advance. Book

the Church before the hall.

Communion at Home : Lay ministers are available

to bring Communion to shut-ins. Phone the parish

office.

Prayer-Line :

Rose Marie Spina 254-4064

Angela Filice 253-8607 (Italian)

Visiting & Card

Ministry:

If you wish to send cards or have someone visit people who are confined to their homes. Contact the parish office. REGULAR CHURCH

OFFICE HOURS Tues - Friday 9:30-12:30

Reconciliation Saturdays: 3:00 - 3:30 pm

welcome to register,

Baptism : Expectant parents

welcome to register, and speak with Fr. Ron after

Mass

You can now donate to us by credit card etc. at our web page:

www.veronica.church

CHURCH FURNACE FUNDRAISER We have raised $ 20,625.95 as of July 9, 2017. Our next collection for the furnace will be taken up August 13, 2017 after Communion. We thank everyone who has been able to donate to this cause. You can also go to our website and donate there. There will be a collections taken up once a month after communion.

FINANCE REPORT July 9,, 2017

Thank-you To All Who Give!!

WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE

Monday, July 17, 2017 OFFICE CLOSED 1:00 p.m. Italian Prayer Group Wednesday July 19, 2017 NO MASS Thursday July 20, 2017 NO MASS Friday, July 21, 2017 9:00AM MASS Doris and Lionel Ambeault by family Saturday, July 22, 2017 4:00 PM MASS Pasqua DaPrat by Louisa Beroli Domenico & Agostino Scopacasa by daughter Maria Giuliano Sunday, July 23, 2017 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 11:00 AM MASS Curly & Albert Vanderburg by Carol Vanderburg Elizabeth & Giuseppe Valente by the Valente Family James and Shirley Ambeault by family

Roman Catholic Priest Murdered in Mexico (CNA/EWTN News).- Authorities are investigating the murder of another Cath-olic priest in Mexico who was bound and stabbed to death in his room. Father Luis López Villa, parish priest of San Isidro Labrador in Mexico State, was found dead in his room shortly after 8 p.m. on Wednesday. The suspects, who entered the rectory after breaking into the church, made enough noise to raise the suspicions of neighbors, who alerted church staff to the incident. When the staff arrived, they found the 71-year-old priest dead in his room with his hands and feet tied and a stab wound in his neck and chest. Fr. Villa is the 18th priest to be murdered in Mexico in the last six years, with many more having been assaulted or kidnapped. In May, a priest was stabbed at the conclusion of Mass in Mexico City’s Cathedral, though he survived the at-tack. Cardinal Norberto Rivera, Archbishop of Mexico, sent his condolences "of the Diocese of Nezahualcóyotl and of the whole Church in the country for the murder of the priest." He said he offered his prayers in solidarity with the other bishops of the coun-try, and prayed "to God our Lord for the eternal rest of the priest and the con-version of those who perpetrated this damnable deed." The Mexican Cardinal also urged the authorities to ensure that “this heinous crime does not go unpunished."

WHY WE EVANGELIZE

We evangelize because we have found a living hope of the satisfaction of our deepest de-

sires, and we long to invite everyone to the wedding feast!

Those who have tasted the living hope of this wedding feast feel compelled to invite oth-

ers, like St. Paul: “woe to me if I do not preach the gospel” (1 COR 9:16) If we do not

feel compelled in this way, perhaps we are in need of being more deeply evangelized our-

selves. That’s okay, for at every stage of our journey we’re in need of deeper conversion.

If we continue to open our hearts ever more deeply to God’s love, it will flow out of us

with greater ease & naturalness.

But if this is to happen, as Pope Francis, says below, we must have a contemplative spir-

it—-a heart thirsting for divine love and eager to drink at its fountain, the open heart of

Christ. In other words, we must learn to pray. True evangelization is always and only the

fruit of a deep life of prayer. For the “authencity of the Christian life is measured by the

depth of one’s prayer,” wrote St. John Paul II. Prayer is “an art that must humbly learnt

from the lips of the Divine Master, almost imploring like the first disciples: “Lord, teach

us to pray” (Lk 11:1) (April 17, 2005)!

This “wanting to learn how to pray” is especially important for the evangelist. As St. John

of the Cross wrote:

Let those, then, who are singularly active, who think they can win the world

with their preaching and exterior works, observe here that they would profit

the Church and please God much more...were they to spend at least half of

this time with God in prayer...They would then certainly accomplish more,

and with less labor by one work than they otherwise would by a thou-

sand...Without prayer they would do a great deal of hammering but accom-

plish little, and sometimes nothing, and even at times cause harm...However

much they may appear to achieve externally, they will in substance be ac-

complishing nothing (without a life of deep prayer)

(Spiritual Canticle, 29:3)