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Dear Parishioners,

Parish Festival  We will have our annual Festival next Sunday June 29th immediately after the 10:30 Mass. We need your help to set up on June 29th at 9am. We are in need of **Baked Goods** If you are able to donate “Goodies”, Please call M. Almah 249 688 0930 Thank you for your support!

We would appreciate donations for prizes for the raffle, they can be brought to the office during office hours. The raffle draws will begin at 1:30pm.

Bible Study on the Gospel of Matthew – Upcoming Class – May 29th at St. John Join the DRIVEN TO PRAISE prayer Group as we journey now through the Gospel of St. Matthew 7pm – 8 pm at St. John the Baptist basement. Info Daniel 647 928 6414.  

Novena Prayer to the Sacred Heart

Please join us in the novena Wed. June 18 to 26.

1. O my Jesus, you have said: ‘Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. ‘ Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…… (here name your request) Our Father… . Hail Mary… . Glory Be to the Father… .

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

1. O my Jesus, you have said: ‘Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. ‘ Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of…… . (here name your request) Our Father… Hail Mary… . Glory Be To the Father… .

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

III. O my Jesus, you have said: ‘Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away. ‘ Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of… . . (here name your request) Our Father… . Hail Mary… . Glory Be to the Father…

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.     Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.

— St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Padre Pio recited this novena every day for all those who requested his prayers.

DIOCESAN &O THER NEWS:

Wayside Community Dance JUNE 22 7PM featuring Carling Steven and her Jazz-Blues Quartet

ALL ARE WELCOME to join us for an end-of-year community dance at St. Joseph’s Hall in Douro, featuring the incredible talents of Carling Steven and her Jazz-Blues Quartet. Doors open at 7pm and cost is $30 per family, or $10 per person. 

Wayside School Tour JUNE 24 1-4PM. Want to learn the difference Classical Catholic Education makes? Wayside Catholic School is opening its doors for a guided tour on Tuesday, June 24 from 1-4pm. While classes will be out, staff will be present to explain the Wayside difference. Come and discover the joy of a school where your child is seen, supported, and formed for Heaven. RSVP to admin@olwayside.ca

Upcoming Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—June 27 2025

On the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Friday June 27, 2025, at 3:30 pm, please join His Excellency Bishop Miehm and the parishioners of our northern parishes at Sacred Heart Parish, Trout Creek, for the closing Mass celebration of the 350th Anniversary Year of the messages of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Program begins with Adoration and confessions 11am-3pm, Holy Mass 3:30 pm and reception to follow. The Plenary Indulgence will also be granted.

A Call to Prayer for Peace in the Holy Land and the Middle East – Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

In light of the escalation of violence in the Middle East – most recently between Israel and Iran –, the Catholic faithful in Canada, are invited, to pray for peace in the world during the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Pope Leo XIV’s Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (released June 2025)

Lord, I come to your tender heart today, to you who have words that set my heart ablaze, to you who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor, on those who suffer, and on all human miseries. 

I desire to know you more, to contemplate you in the Gospel, to be with you and learn from you and from the charity with which you allowed yourself to be touched by all forms of poverty.

You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure with your divine and human heart. Grant all your children the grace of encountering you. Change, shape, and transform our plans, so that we seek only you in every circumstance: in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine. From this encounter, send us out on mission, a mission of compassion for the world in which you are the source from which all consolation flows. Amen.

In the Footsteps of the Holy Canadian Martyrs Walking Pilgrimage The 11th Annual Walking Pilgrimage – will take place on August 10-15, 2025. We will depart from St Joseph’s Church Powassan on August 10 and walk 130 km over 5 days to reach Holy Family Church, Britt where we will venerate the relics of the Martyrs. Contact frpeterlukow@peterboroughdiocese.org for a registration form. Early bird deadline is June 27 and July 25th is the final deadline.