Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 29, 2018

Tuesday, July 31, 6:30 pm Mass: 
For the repose of the soul of Gayle Konantz
Mass intention by:  Irene Laviolette

Wednesday, August 1, 12:15 pm Mass: 
For the intentions of Alex Bartley
Mass intention by:  Marta Bartley

Thursday,  August 2, 12:15 pm Mass: 
For the repose of the soul of Emmet Blaine
Mass intention by:  Anne Gildea

Friday, August 3, 8:30 am Mass: 
For the intentions of Auspice Maria members
 
Saturday, August 4, 7:00 pm Mass: 
For the intentions of the people

Sunday, August 5, 10:00 am Mass: 
For the repose of the soul of Martha Fulop
Mass intention by: Marta  Bartley

Announcements:
 
Our visitor this Sunday is Bishop Thomas Paprocki from Springfield, Illinois, who is in town visiting relatives.
 
Confessions will be heard Saturday evenings, 6:00 to 6:45 pm before mass, in the first office on the right as you enter the gym.
 
Confessions are also scheduled for Tuesday evenings from 5:30 pm to 6:15 pm at the office.
 
We have Safeway and Savon cards for sale at weekend mass.  We sell them to raise funds for the new church building.  They are good across Western Canada.
 
Our next fundraiser for our Shrine Church is Sponsorships. Be sure to check our list of items, in the school entrance, to see what is available.
 
Hospital Visits:  If you or a loved one are in the hospital and would like a visit from Father
Nathan, please inform the hospital staff.   
  
T.I.A.  2018 -  Together In Action                                          
Parish  TIA Goal:           $18,072.00
Raised to date:                 $5,059.00
 
The meaning of pilgrimage 
 
A pilgrimage or visit to a sacred place honoring a significant event is intended to be an action both profoundly human and religious. Millions each year frequent the great historical locations where their country's grand events were forged. The concept of pilgrimage is prominent in all of the world's major religions: Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist. 
The spirit of the early and medieval Church inspired pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, to the tombs of the apostles and martyrs, to the holy places of Rome, and to churches and shrines holding relics of saints. Internationally famous for pilgrimage in the Middle Ages were Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain and Canterbury in England. 
 
The mission of shrines 
 
The Marian apparitions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at Paris, Lourdes, La Salette, Knock, Beauraing, Fatima, and other places created noted centers of prayer and renewal. Pilgrims came to find healing and spiritual courage, to experience for themselves the miraculous event which had occurred, and this devotion revitalized the spirit of pilgrimage in the Church. 
In the Catholic world of today about eighty percent of all shrines are dedicated to Mary. Annually the vast majority of pilgrims are destined for Marian shrines. For example, about ten million go to Guadalupe in Mexico, six million to Lourdes in France, five million to Czestochowa in Poland, four million to Aparecida in Brazil. 
Shrines are not intended to be a sightseeing stop on a vacation trip; they are places of pilgrimage. Though most need to travel considerable distances and use vacation time to reach the shrines, pilgrimage is not a vacation-time visit, but rather an action of spiritual renewal.