Hello St Clare,

It is during the month of November that the Church meditates on the Communion of Saints and the faithful departed who are still expiating their sins in Purgatory, and of the pilgrim faithful still here on earth.

November 2nd is the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, also known as All Souls Day, a day set aside to pray for all the dead.

The need and duty of prayer for the dead has been acknowledged by the Church. It is recommended in the Scriptures of the Old Testament: "It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins" (2 Macc. 12: 46). This duty is expressed in public and private prayers but especially in the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the repose of souls.

The prayers are particularly directed for the souls who are being purified in Purgatory, waiting for the day when they will join the saints in heaven. The celebration of Mass is the highest means the Church can provide for charity for the dead, but we can also relieve their sufferings through our prayers, sufferings and penances. We can particularly help the Poor Souls by doing acts and prayers that have indulgences attached to them.

During the month of November, we have a long-standing tradition of accepting Masses by All Souls Envelopes: 

1.     Each envelope is a request for one Mass. Please take it from the entrance of the church or make your own envelope that is clearly marked for ALL Souls.

2.      Write the names of your deceased on the front and, along with your donation, put it in the Sunday collection boxes (during the entire month of November) OR send it to us by the mail.

3.      Each of these envelopes will be used as one Mass intention, celebrated by Fr. Maciej or another priest. Please note: we will not be able to let you know the date on which your Mass will be observed.  

I encourage you to continue this beautiful practice that help set our hearts and minds in the strong belief of Christ’s resurrection. This is our spiritual gift, not only for our deceased, but also for all the forgotten souls. May they rest in peace!

Fr. Maciej

BEWARE OF SCAM EMAIL

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PARISH OFFICE HOURS

Monday to Friday

9am to 12pm

1pm to 3pm

The parish office is closed on statutory holidays.

Success in the eyes of God is not about the quantity or quality of our material goods. Instead, it’s about how we use these goods: do they move us closer to God, or are they an obstacle? God calls us to share what we have to help others. By providing support for many different ministries of the Church, Project Advance offers everyone a chance to exercise Christian stewardship.

Thank you to the 211 families who have already made a gift to this year’s Project Advance. They represent 20% of our parishioners. From their contributions we have raised $109,260 of which $49,860 will be returned to St. Clare’s. Our goal is to raise $250,000 with 100% participation.

These funds, raised from Project Advance, will be used to pay down our mortgage and for special projects such as the upgrade to the sound system in the church.   

It is not too late to make a gift. Every gift no matter the size will make a difference in our community. Please consider making a gift today to Project Advance. You can give online at projectadvance.ca, by phone at 604-683-0281 ext. 50323, or in-person at our parish’s office. Thank you so much for your support.

It is not always convenient to be a good steward, especially when all the temptations of our busy and materialistic world get in the way. Now add our own pride and ego into the equation and living a stewardship lifestyle may be downright uncomfortable! Remember, God didn’t call us to be comfortable. He never said that we would have an easy life. Rather, He called us to be faithful!

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SUNDAY MASSES

Saturday (Mass of Anticipation)  5:00pm

Sunday  8:30am, 11:00am and 5:00pm

        6:30pm (Spanish)

DAILY MASSES 

Monday through Saturday at 9:00am

Morning Office/Breviary at 8:30am from Monday through Saturday. Everyone is welcome to join in.

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LIVESTREAMING SCHEDULE

We will continue to live stream our masses on both FACEBOOK (Link) and on YOUTUBE (Link) as follows:

Daily Masses Monday through Friday at 9:00am

Weekend Mass at 5:00pm on Saturdays

All of these are posted on YouTube and Facebook and can be watched either live or after the livestreaming has ended. If you haven't already, please subscribe to our YouTube page and don't forget to "Like Us". These simple moves makes us easier to find on the web.

You can participate in all of our online masses by clicking on the links provided above or by going to our website, www.stclare.ca and clicking on the link provided.

We have connected a very limited number of sound receivers to our sound system for people with serious difficulty in hearing. These can be used with either our headphones or your own personal headphones. If you are interested, please call the office at 604-941-4800 or email stclareofassisi@shaw.ca These are the same ones that we had in the hall.

Please contact the parish office to make arrangements for

baptisms, weddings, funerals and other Sacraments.

Monday through Saturday

8:45am (before morning Mass)

9:30am (after morning Mass, until last penitent)

No registration or appointment is necessary.



Confessions are heard in the Children's Room (by the washrooms on the east side of the church) NOT in the confessional.

ADORATION CHAPEL

The Adoration Chapel is accessible 7 days a week. Entrance to the Adoration Chapel is open between 8am and 6pm.  

Pre-Authorized Payments

We offer a Pre-Authorized Payment (PAP) plan which you can sign up for by completing the form at Pre-Authorized Form and returning it with a void cheque to the parish office. Pre-authorized payments are withdrawn directly from your bank account on the 1st day of the month.

Please remember to sign the back as it is invalid without a signature. You may seal the completed form in an envelope marked Pre-Authorized Payment and drop it in the donation box located in the church, mail it or bring it to the parish office. The form must be in the office by the 20th of the month in order for it to be effective on the following 1st of the month.

Donations at Church

If you wish to continue to make your donation at mass, please note that we will not be passing around the collection baskets at this time. Please leave your donation to the church in one of the boxes at the back of the church either when you enter or when you leave.

If you would like a box of Sunday envelopes, contact the parish office.

Second Collections - When there is a Second Collection, a collection box at the back of the church will be specifically labeled for the that collection.

On the weekend of October 23, there will be a second collection for Evangelization of Nations (World Mission Sunday) to support mission dioceses in Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and parts of Latin America and Europe, where priests, religious and lay leaders serve the world’s most vulnerable communities.

UKRAINIAN SUPPORT - We will continue to leave a donation box beside the Ukrainian flag in the lobby as they will need continued support. If you have any loose change or bills please consider making a donation. Thank you.

ADVERTISERS IN OUR BULLETIN

There is an advertiser section at the bottom of today's bulletin. Please support these businesses as they support your parish. Clicking on their ad will take you to their web page.

If you are interested in advertising your company in our bulletin, please contact the office at stclareofassisi@shaw.ca or call 604-941-4800.

All children aged 4 to 8 can attend Children’s Liturgy on Sunday at the 11 o’clock mass. No registration required!

More adult volunteers are needed, so that the program can run smoothly and consistently. For more information, contact Sandy via email at sandy@geoadvice.com or text/phone at (604)374-5914.

For information on the Knights of Columbus please visit our websites at kofc.org and kofcbc.org. If you are interested in becoming a Knight please email Mike at knights@stclare.ca or call him at 604 760 9035.

If you would like to volunteer to help out contact Mike: knights@stclare.ca or

604 760 9035

The Legion of Mary Praesidium, Mary Mother of the Church, is now meeting in person every Thursday from 9:45am to 11am at St. Francis Room of the Parish Centre.

To join as active or auxiliary member, please call Ofelia Estrada at (604)240-9101 or Lourdes Cabael at (778)986-7516.

Food for Thought . . . and for the Soul

"Sometimes you step into a church for a moment of silent reflection, and as the noise of outside fades away and the silence takes over, from out of the shadows you start to hear a voice. It is saying something, you don’t know what, and after some moments that voice stops and other voices take over and still you don’t know what exactly they are saying. Then it is the first voice’s turn again and you realise: it is the Rosary.

It is like when you are on a ferry and touch a part of the structure and feel the pulse of the engines that are making the whole thing go. The Rosary is the engine-room of the Church.

We don’t know in detail how prayer works: only that it does work, on every level. It keeps the mystical body of Christ together; it keeps the world together and on course. And even outside the teams of determined women who make that silent mid-afternoon church not silent, we out here in the world can still do our bit. My friend Corinne used to wear a bracelet which just happened to have ten beads on it; and she used it for what it was meant for. Inspired, I looked at my key-ring and I found it had ten keys on it: the basic ingredient.

Universalis has a Rosary page, and you can see it in all the Universalis programs and apps. October is the month of the Rosary, and the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was last Friday, so now seems a good time to describe some features of that Rosary page.

First and most important, there is now a verse of Scripture for each of the 20 × 10 = 200 Hail Marys in the whole Rosary. Their centre is the Gospels but the Psalms, the Prophets and the Apocalypse all have their place, because the context is the whole of salvation history. The verses help you know where you are – not only which Mystery, but how far through that Mystery – and they give your mind something to catch hold of as you go through it.

Second, you can listen to it all (this comes only in the apps, for both iPhone/iPad and Android). The core is an actual recitation of the Rosary by an actual community: Downside, the pupils and teachers at the school, the Benedictine monks of St Gregory the Great and the people of the parishes round about. Being actual people, some of them are outgoing, some of them are half overcome by shyness – but then, that all goes to show that the Church herself is a real living entity and not a polished performance. Over all this, calm and clearly spoken, verse after verse of Scripture gives each mystery its shape.

Third, Universalis offers an extra way for us to do the Rosary. We would all like to be strong and fit and do a whole set of five mysteries each day, the way it is laid out in the books, and of course Universalis gives you that as an option. But we ordinary people don’t always have half an hour of undistracted focus to spare, however much we would like to, so as well as those regular patterns the menu has another choice. It is called “A Decade a Day”. It does what it says. Each day, it gives you one decade from that day’s Mysteries. The great thing about this is that it leaves you no excuse. To listen to one decade takes six minutes, almost exactly. Very few of us don’t have six minutes in a day. To take the simplest example: tomorrow, when the alarm wakes you up in the morning, don’t press Snooze, open Universalis and press Play. The app chooses the Mystery for you and all you need to do is sink into it and listen. Don't just read this, try it."

(***Thanks to Universalis for this information***) 

If you wish to book a Mass Intention please email the office at stclareofassisi@shaw.ca giving the name of the person, whether it is for a living or deceased person, who it is from and if you have any preferences for the the day of the week, a weekend mass or specific date. We will try to book your mass intention as close to the request as possible.

The suggested offering for a mass intention is not less than $10 and can be brought to the office, mailed to 1320 Johnson Street, Coquitlam, V3B 4T5 or dropped in the collection box in the church. Please DO NOT use a collection envelope but put it in a regular envelope clearly marked for what it is for. This offering will go to the priest who says the mass, not to the church.

If you are unable to use email, mass intentions may be phoned in at 604-941-4800.

NEW FOR 2022 AND BEYOND : Due to the high demand for mass intentions we have obtained permission from Archbishop Miller to have multiple mass intentions on one day per week. As of January 2022 we will accept up to 10 mass intentions for Fridays. For all other days we will only book one mass, and we will honour mass intentions already booked.

Please pray for the sick of our Parish

Noah Zanatta, Bob Roy, Loni Cain, Brendan Pace, Gracienda Ramos, Brian Stewart, Catherine Dunne, Lucy Chase, Doreen Allyen, Tyson Ward, Nora Arroyal, Christopher Brown, Joan McDonald, Annabella Cirko, Frank Matchett, Kelly Durkin, Jason Kendall, Bill Clendinning, Chris Mah, Lydia Guzman, Angelo Visentin, June Cross, Katelyn Boudewyn, Karen Morris, Ramon Montecillo, Janice Caine, Nadine Classen, Leanne Theiss, Sierra Osborne, Sebastien Robillard, Sandra Diersch, Lori Dennis, Mazoe Kaufman, Cindy Mazerolle-Kass, Anna Figura, Ed Garcia, Viray Family, Walter Banke, Etheen Lowry, Elizabeth Teixeira, Reema Ferreira, Terry McDonald, Andrew De Boda, Hari Vijay, Peggy Maas, Chad Galitzky, Al Trotter, Pat Dizy, Brett Lawrence, Norman Schuster, Brenda Haines, John Bergen, Laud Vidal, Rick Empey, Dan Arseneault, Addie Jamieson, Jean-Yves Duret, Valerie Ng and all recipients of St. Clare’s Prayer Shawls.

The Poor Clare sisters are praying for our parish and would be happy to take your personal prayer requests by mail or telephone. For vocation inquiries, send an email to callclaremissbc@telus.net

If you are interested in joining us or would like to know more about Mothers Prayers, please contact Thelma Rose at (604) 464-3383 or by email at glenthel@shaw.ca

For more information, please visit: www.mothersprayers.org or https://stclare.ca/parish-life/faith-formation/mothers-prayer/

110th Anniversary Celebration

St. Joseph's Parish

Port Moody

Jesus is the bridegroom and the Church is His Bride. Come and join us in the celebration of the Nativity of the Bride of Christ on Sunday, Oct 16 from 4 to 8 pm at Archbishop Carney Secondary.

Enjoy a fun-filled evening with hors d'oeuvre, remarkable entertainment programs and a full course buffet.

Tickets are $35 for adults, children 6-16 for $18. Order online at https://stjpm.com/events/110th-celebration-dinner-of-st-joseph-s-parish#register

Communications Assistant

The Communications Office is seeking a full-time Communications Assistant to support The B.C. Catholic Newspaper and manage all ongoing communications and marketing initiatives.

Communications Coordinator

The Communications Office is seeking a full-time Coordinator who will oversee the digital outreach of the Catholic Church in Vancouver. Part writer, part content creator, part social media manager, the Coordinator will manage email campaigns, social media, and websites. The Coordinator will be responsible for the digital outreach of ministries and sub-brands such as The B.C. Catholic, Behold, Proclaim, Gardens of Gethsemani, Project Advance, and the Archbishop of Vancouver. The Communications Coordinator will assist the Director with key messaging and clearly communicate to the public and the media.

Digital Marketing Specialist

The Communications Office is seeking a full-time Digital Marketing Specialist to advance the strategic goals of the local Catholic Church through email, social media, and other digital marketing strategies. The Digital Marketing Specialist will design and execute cross-channel campaigns for various archdiocesan offices and ministries and grow the digital reach of the Archdiocese.

The Archdiocese of Vancouver is blessed to be made up of a committed core of individuals who are eager to serve in ministry. If you feel called to be a part of this team, additional employment opportunities may be viewed at at rcav.org/jobs

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