THE COUNCIL’S CORNER

Parish Council will be meeting Oct 14th @ 5:30PM.

Any parishioners will question or concerns feel free to contact Eric Aubuchon so they can be addressed. Thank you for your willingness to serve.

GOD BLESS!

ATTENTION: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

We will be in need of volunteers for the following areas going forward:
1. Flower arrangements for Christmas, Easter, Solemnities, etc.
(order, coordinate, set up, maintain, & dispose)
2. Advent Wreath
(set up, maintain, dismantle)
3. Decorating for Christmas & Easter
(coordinate, set up, maintain & dismantle)
4. Table of Remembrance for November
(set up, change votives, take down)
5. Palm Sunday
(make palm arrangements, coordinate & set up for
needs of the Palm Sunday Liturgy)

**Please contact Glen Gelhot or the parish office with any questions.

October:  Month of the Holy Rosary
From Pope Leo XIV

The Church dedicates the coming month of October to the #HolyRosary. I invite everyone
to pray the Rosary for #Peace each day of the month individually, in the family, in community. On Saturday, October 11, at 6:00 PM, we will pray the Rosary together in St. Peter’s Square, during the vigil of the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality, also recalling the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Leo XIV, General Audience
10/01/2025

The centre of our faith and the heart of our hope are firmly rooted in the resurrection of Christ. It is a wonderful testimony of how love is capable of rising again after a great defeat in order
to continue its unstoppable journey. God forgives, lifts up, and restores trust. This is the heart of the mission of the Church: to communicate the joy of those who are loved precisely when
they did not deserve it. This is the strength that gave rise to the Christian community and helped it grow: men and women who discovered the beauty of returning to life to be able to give it to others.

CARLOS ACUTIS DISPLAY

Come and join us on Oct. 18th before 4 p.m. mass at St. James starting at 2 p.m. and will continue on after mass and on Oct. 19th at St. Joachim before 10 a.m. mass starting at 8 a.m. and will continue on after mass in the IWC.

Carlos Acutis was born in London, England on May 3, 1991, to Italian parents who were working there at the time. They later moved to Milan, Italy, where he spent the rest of his life until his
death at the age of 15. He died October 12, 2006, of a rare form of Leukemia. This young man started talking at a very young age and was so close to God. He went to Church every day and said the rosary. He used Technology to spread his faith and warned the younger generation about the dangers of the internet. He earned the nickname of “God’s Influencer”. He catalog all the authenticated Eucharistic miracles of the world. One of his words of wisdom “All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies.” He understood that God made us each unique and that we use our own individual talents that God has given us. We were not all born to be the same. Pope Francis said “He saw that many young people, wanting to be different, really end up being like everyone else, running after whatever the powerful set before them with the mechanisms of consumerisms and distraction. In this way they do not bring forth the gifts the Lord has given them; they do not offer the world those unique personal talents that God has
given to each of them. Don’t let that happen to you! (Christus Vivit106)” The most important thing about Carlos is his love for the Eucharist. He said, “the Eucharist Is my highway to Heaven.” He then created a website documenting all the Eucharistic miracles around the world, some will be present.

There will be a first class relic of Sts. Joachim and Anne and a second class relic of the Blessed Mother & St. Joseph. A first-class Relic is a body part of a saint or a fragment of the true Cross of Christ, while a second-class relic is a personal possession of a saint such as an item of their clothing or a book they owned. You can bring a rosary, medal, or any sacred item and touch them to the first-class and second-class relics and this will then make your item become third-class relics. Along with these relics, we will have pictures of the new saint and Eucharist Miracle.