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Catholic Parishes of Penticton
St. Ann
/ St. John Vianney / Sacred Heart
1296 Main St., V2A 5G2
361 Wade Avenue West, V2A 1V2
Native Reserve
Phone: (250) 492-3169
Fax: (250) 492-9884
Email: stanns@shaw.ca
Website: http://catholicparishespenticton.org/home.htm
Pastor: FR. REX M. VELMONTE 492-3162
PARISH OFFICE
HOLY CROSS SCHOOL
Office Hours: Mon – Fri (9AM - 2:30PM)
Telephone.....................................................492-4480
Fax................................................................490-4602
Shawn Campbell............................................Principal
Gail d’Aoust......................................School Secretary
Website……………………………. www.holyc.com
Office Manager: Melinda Edis................492-3169
Religious Education: Pat Styles….…........488-5803
Email: penreligioused@gmail.com
Maintenance:
Chairperson (St. Ann) – Steve Bank........493-8947
St. Ann– Elmer Villar….........................486-2834
St. John Vianney – Manny Sebastian ...809-4701
NEW PARISHIONERS
If you are interested in registering with the parish,
please contact the Parish Office!
PARISH ORGANIZATIONS
BAPTISMS
Knights of Columbus:
St. Ann: Dallas Elliott...........................492-3653
4th Degree: John Dorosz…....……778-476-4904
St. John Vianney: Randy Carson.........499-2917
Catholic Women’s League:
St. Ann: Sharon Vaillancourt………..492-5938
St. John Vianney: Maria Raymond…..492-4869
Parish Council: Erwin Ploner………….493-7103
Prayer Group: Bernadette Barry..............492-3478
Secular Franciscans: Diane Schmid..........492-0541
Prayer Chain – Beverley Binfet…....…….492-0705
Finance Committee – Norm Lynch ……..492-0293
Contact the Parish Office at least two months in
advance to allow sufficient time for our Baptism
preparation program.
BIRTHRIGHT OF PENTICTON
MINISTRY TO THE SICK/ HOSPITAL VISITS
200 Bennett Ave. Penticton, V2A 2P5
Open Mon, Wed. & Friday from 10am – 2pm
If you are expecting a child and are feeling confused;
if you are thinking that there is no way out of this
situation; if you want to talk to someone about your
situation, call Sandy ~ 250 492-4901 or 1-800-550-4900!
Parishioners unable to attend Mass due to disability
or illness either at home or for requests for hospital
visits and wish to receive Communion or be visited
by a Priest or a Eucharistic Minister, please contact
the Parish Office or Marianne Moeliker at
778-476-0176!
DISCOVERY HOUSE
CANADIAN FOOD FOR CHILDREN
397 Wade Avenue W, Penticton V2A 1V2
Contact: Jerome Abraham ~ 250 490-3076
1132 Commercial Way
Hours: 9am to 3pm (Tuesday & Friday)
Phone: Maryse ~ 250 492-0042
MARRIAGES
Contact the Pastor at least six months in advance
in order to allow sufficient time for our Marriage
preparation program.
EXPOSITION OF BLESSED SACRAMENT
St. John Wednesday
St. Ann
Thursday
9:30am - 4pm
9:30am - 4pm
RELIGIOUS ARTICLES & FAIR TRADE COFFEE
Sharon Vaillancourt………..………….250-492-5938
SOCIETY of ST. VINCENT de PAUL
Phone (message service): 250 492-2082
NATIVE MINISTRY
Sr. Shelley Grant…………………..…..250-492-4411
361 Wade Avenue West, PentictonV2A 1V2
SAFE ENVIRONMENT COORDINATORS
Dallas & Carolyn Elliott
250 492-3653
--- WEEKEND MASSES --ST. ANN: SATURDAY ~ 5PM
SUNDAY ~ 11AM & 6PM
ST. JOHN VIANNEY:: SUNDAY~ 9AM
Byzantine Ukrainian Mass: Saturday ~ 4PM
Sacred Heart
Heart Native Reserve --~ 2nd Sunday of each month at 12:30pm
WEEKDAY MASSES --- Please refer to schedule inside
St. John ~ 8am – 8:30am (Sunday)
RECONCILIATION: St. Ann ~ 4pm– 4:30pm (Saturday)
ST. ANN’S NEWS
ST. JOHN VIANNEY NEWS
CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE
--- General Meeting – NO JAN. GENERAL MEETING!
GREETERS & GIFT BEARERS
th
Sunday, January 18 – Alberto & Delfina Figueira
COFFEE SUNDAY
th
Sunday, January 11 – Lorne Raymond
Sunday Collection
Year-to-date
st
Executive Meeting 1 Thursday 6:30 pm
nd
rd
CWL Luncheon 2 Sunday 11am; CWL Mass 3 Sunday 11am
rd
General Meeting 3 Thursday 6:30 pm
You may pick up your receipts, membership cards and minutes in the
red basket at the back of the Church.
RELIGIOUS ARTICLES STORE: To purchase articles,
SUNDAY COLLECTION REPORT
ACTUAL
BUDGET
$ 2,436.86
$ 2,436.86 $
CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE
VARIANCE
please visit before or after weekend Masses!
Great variety available.
$
MINISTRIES – January 18th
Did you know…
That the Penticton Parish’s Society of St. Vincent de Paul
- has no paid employees – we’re all volunteers
- has very little administration expenses
- has partnered with IGA, Shopper’s Drug Mart, and Save
on Foods all of whom give us their lowest advertised
price (sometimes better) with no limits on the amount we
purchase.
- buy in bulk to stretch our available funding
- buys shopping cards from Holy Cross School (HCS Fund
raiser) to pay for our purchases from these and other
Penticton businesses.
- we could use your help! Please contact Rene at 493-1588
or Sharon at 493-1208
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is always
looking for substitute people to help deliver hampers to the
needy. We might only enlist you once or twice a year, or at
most, once every two months or so. Our drivers sometimes do
double duty, and often need to be away on short notice. It
would be so kind of you to volunteer for these occasions. If you
want to help, please phone Rene at 493-1588 or Sharon at 4931208…thank you so much!
Our prayers and great wishes to Anne Noel, who’s
moving to Edmonton, to be closer to family! Thank you
for being a part of our parish family! May God bless
you always!
FOR YOUR INFO --On Thursdays, we now celebrate the Sacrament of the
Anointing of the Sick & Communion Service to the
following homes:
1st Thursday
Sun Village
10AM
nd
2 Thursday Haven Hill
10:30AM
3rd Thursday
Village by the Station 10AM
If you want to help in any of these homes, at least once
a month, call Fr. Rex or the Parish Office. Come and
share the love and joy of the Gospel…thank you!
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A reminder to all parishioners that the Sunday
Evening Mass time is now changed to 6pm…thank
you very much!
ALTAR SERVERS:
5PM Angelina & Isabelle
11AM Rhys, Hana, Angela, Meg Lynn
6PM Ashleigh, Samantha
READERS:
5PM Lorie Meyer
Grace Lank
11AM Catholic Women’s League
6PM Minke Mazzocato
Christine Davidson
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS
5PM Rene Barone (H1/Prep), Imma Cormano (C1/Cleanup),
Lupita Rios (C2), Roy de Pourcq (C3), Faye Oliver (C4),
Frank Viktorin (H2) & Bill Binfet (H3)
11AM Catholic Women’s League
6PM Peter Ruocco, Livio Mazzocato
SUNDAY COLLECTION REPORT
ACTUAL
Collection (Jan 1)
$ 3,046.30
Sunday Collection (Jan 4) $ 5,192.87
Year-to-date
$ 8,239.17
BUDGET
$
$
VARIANCE
$
$
$
PRAYERS FOR THE SICK:
Please keep these individuals in your prayers that God
will grant them healing and strength:
Maria Afonso, Beatrice Anton, Laurette Bremault, Juanita
Bright, Janette Charlton, Veronica Caione, Malcolm
Coulter, Donna Courneya, Joe Cuzzocrea, Sarah
Desrochers, Shawna Desrochers, Disilda Doucette, Vince
Fergus, Alice &Vince Fischer, Bernie Fransen, Ellen
Girourd, Evelyn Grant, Greg Greenslade, Mary Jane
Hardoway, Mary Hanz, Angeline Hauser, Margaret
Helfrich, Mary Kantz, Aaron Kumpf, Margaret Leahy,
Deena & Howard Luther, Emilia Matias, Betty McNally,
Will McCarron, Aeson Moen, Buck Pacholzuk, Victoria
Penko, Maria Pinheiro, Jim Remming, Doris Sauerbier,
Michael Siller, Bryan & Gwen Schmidt, Danielle
Schmidt, Donald Schmidt, Emily Schulz, Phyllis Sommer,
Lou Tassoni, Helen Wheeler, Flora Zhou.
ALL CWL MEMBERS: 2015 membership dues are
due. The $30 membership can be paid at the monthly meeting
or by placing your cheque or cash in the collection basket.
Remember to indicate "St Ann's or St John's CWL
Membership" on the envelope. Cheques are payable to St
Ann's CWL or St John Vianney CWL. Please contact Nella at 250493-9944 (St Ann) or Irene MacDonald at 250-492-0630 (St
John) if you have any questions ….thanks!
-- BAPTISM OF THE LORD----
January 11, 2015
MONDAY, January 12th
9am
St. John – NO MASS
TUESDAY, January 13th
9am
St. John – Repose: John Pellicano & Bill Kuzemchuk
WEDNESDAY, January 14th
9am
St. John – Repose: Yuk Tong Wong
THURSDAY, January 15th
9am
St. Ann – Repose: Lorrain Biagioni & Betty-Ann Timm
FRIDAY, January 16th
9am
St. Ann – Repose: Rudy Cervantes, Joe Reichert
& the bereaved
SATURDAY, January 17th
5pm
St. Ann – Repose: Joy Ehman
SUNDAY, January 18th
9am
St. John – Repose: Edith Welsh
& Margaret Quevillon
11am
6pm
St. Ann – Repose: Joan McDonald
St. Ann – Intention: Parish Families
------------------------------------From the Office of Faith Formation:
We are cleaning out our library! There is a large selection of
VHS video tapes on subjects such as Lent, Advent, Faith
Formation (children & adults), parish ministries, etc. If you
are interested, stop by at the Catholic Pastoral Centre and
take a look. We will accept a small donation for any of the
tapes you want. Contact the Office of Faith Formation at 250448-2725 for further information.
Reminders:
--- Please pick up your 2015 collection envelopes at the
entrance of the church! If you are new to the parish, or
want to begin using collection envelopes, take a box
designated for “New Parishioners” and complete the form
inside and return the form to the office.
--- If you haven’t submitted our Parish Census Form, we
encourage you to do so! If you lost the form or are not
registered in the parish, they are available at the entrance
of the Church. We encourage you to fill in the form then
drop it in the collection basket or mail it to the parish
office. Thank you and God bless!
The OKANAGAN LIVE-IN is offering a weekend in
Kelowna on February 20-22, 2015. The Live-In will be
held at Immaculata High School (1493 KLO Road,
Kelowna, BC V1W 3NB)
The Live In, is an experience of God's Love through Jesus,
through an experience of the Live In faith community.
If you have made your Live-In weekend, consider
deepening your faith by being part of the back-up
community. In serving others, we serve Jesus.
Contact: Darlene Heaney 250 542 8690
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Sunday, January 11th (St. Ann)
- CWL Luncheon (Noon)
- Tuesday, January 13th (St. Ann)
- Liturgy Committee Meeting (7pm)
- Thursday, January 15th (St. Ann)
- CWL General Meeting (6:30pm)
- Friday, January 16th (St. Ann)
- Parish Council Meeting (10am)
- Saturday, January 17th (St. Ann)
- Funeral – Margaret Reilly (10:30am)
- Sunday, January 18th (St. Ann)
- Knights Breakfast (10am – 1pm)
- Monday, January 19th
- K of C Exec. Meeting (St. Ann - 7pm)
- K of C General Meeting (St. John - 7:30pm)
- Wednesday, January 21st (St. John)
- CWL General Meeting (7pm)
- Wednesday, February 11th (St. John)
- World Day of the Sick:
Mass & Anointing of the Sick (10:30am)
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The Catholic Health Association of BC will
be awarding two bursaries valued at $250 each to two
2015 graduating students enrolled in a Catholic secondary
school, or who are members of a BC or Yukon parish and
enrolled in a public secondary school or are homeschooled. 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 February 28, 2015. 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.
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Shekinah Prayer Group
will have a series of talks on “There’s always more”. The
first 3 topics are:
Jan 13 – More Love
Jan 20 – More Love through Prayer
Jan 27 – More Love through Purification
Attend as many as you wish. Everyone is welcome!!!
There will be a combine Liturgy Committee
Meeting on Tuesday, January 13th at 7pm St.
Ann’s Oblate Room. Please plan to attend…
thank you! C yah der!
Fr. Rex is looking for an electrician in the parish who
would like to do some volunteer works to add a
couple of speakers in St. Ann’s Church! If you would
like to volunteer or want more info, please call or talk
to Fr. Rex! Thank you in advance!
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8am-7pm Sat
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Ph: 250-493-7899
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Head Office
331 Martin St.
Penticton, BC V2A 5K6
293 Martin Street
Penticton, BCV2A 8G1
THRIFT SHOP: 464 MAIN ST
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MONDAY – SATURDAY
CONTACT: (250) 493-9149
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