St.

Helen Church
4106 Mountain St.
Beamsville, ON L3J 0K9
Ph: 905-562-7427
Fax: 905-563-0003
Email: [email protected]
Opened - October 2, 1938 Est. as a Parish - January 1, 1986
Pastor: Rev. Krzysztof Szczepanik Sunday Masses:
Office Administration: Aggie Agnino Saturday: 5:00pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 11:00am
Office hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 10:00am - 1:00pm Weekday Masses:
Closed on Mondays, Thursday and all Statutory holidays Tuesday - Friday: 9:00am
(unless otherwise posted in the bulletin)
Website: www.sthelenscatholic.ca Adoration:
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/sthelenscatholic Daily after morning Mass weekdays

Sacraments Contacts
Catholic Funeral Rites:
Baptism: When a death occurs in your family, Music Ministry:
1st & 3rd Sunday at 12:30 pm Anthony van Engelen
please call the Parish Office and we
Call parish office. [email protected]
will assist you in making the
necessary liturgical arrangements. Ministry Scheduling & RFM:
1st Communion & Confirmation Rebecca Williams ~ ministryschedul-
Contact the Parish Office. Chronic Care Facilities: [email protected]
Pastoral visits are made monthly. Fundraising Events:
Reconciliation: Reception of Holy Communion is
Every Saturday 4:00pm - 4:30pm or by available to residents. [email protected]
appointment with the priest. Facility & Grounds Maintenance:
Homebound: Craig Luey
Marriage: Notify the Parish Office when serious [email protected]
Arrangements six months in advance. illness occurs. When the sick, aged or
Catholic Women's League:
Marriage preparation is required. incapacitated are confined to home for Anna Sabucco
an extended time, pastoral visit can be [email protected]
RCIA & RCIC: arranged.
Contact the Parish Office. Knights of Columbus:
Ray Francoeur
Anointing of the Sick: Schools [email protected]
Please let us know when someone has St. Mark School 289-700-6342
a serious or prolonged illness or is to Principal: Jennifer DeCoff SVDP:
have surgery. This sacrament Vice-Principal: Joe Tolomeo Lorraine Martin ~ contact parish office
celebrates the healing of mind and
body and the forgiveness of sins. St. Edward School Prayer Warriors/Requests:
Principal: Maria Romano Sandra Mactaggart ~
[email protected]
Kindly complete the following and place in the collection box.
Envelopes will be on the round table in the foyer the following weekend.
☐ New Parishioner* ☐ Change of address ☐ Moving
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 Second Sunday of Easter - Year A - Divine Mercy Sunday
April 16, 2023
Mass Intentions This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns in
April 18 - April 23, 2023 memory of:
As we gather, let us remember and pray for . . .
Tues. ~ .....................................................…….. April 18th KEN SINCLAIR
9:00 am + Angelina & Alex Prokich
(Hrvatin Family)
The Sanctuary Lamp burns to remind us of Christ’s
Wed. ~ ........................................................….. April 19th presence in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. If you
9:00 am + Teofila Manayay wish to sponsor the sanctuary lamp for one week,
(Jorge Valdivia) please contact the office. The stipend is $35.00
12:30pm School Mass
Stewardship of Treasure
Thurs. ~ ….......................................................... April 20th
9:00 am + John Haight Offertory - April 9, 2023 $6,485.00
(Tony & Maria DiStefano)
Building Fund $1,092.00
Fri. ~ ................................................……….. April 21st
9:00am, + Ursula & Pietro Elia Good Friday $1,030.00
(Connie & Louie Elia)
Development & Peace $50.00
Sat. ~ …............................................……….. April 22nd Holy Thursday $890.00
5:00 pm For the People
“May God bless you for your faithful stewardship!”
Sun. ~ + Bernadette Driscoll April 23rd
9:00 am (Sharon Driscoll)
POPE FRANCIS’ APRIL INTENTION
For a culture of peace and non violence;
11:00 am + Rena Marcovette We pray for the spread of peace and non violence, by
(Steve & Kate D’Onofrio) decreasing the use of weapons by States and citizens.
ALPHA THIS WEEK This Monday we
reflect on the Big Question - How Can I THE DIOCESAN SEPARATED & DIVORCED
Make the Most of the Rest of My Life? HEALING MINISTRY Support Group meets every
We'll watch a short video and discuss second and fourth Monday of the month (except
questions like - Do you feel pressure to holidays) from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Mount Carmel
conform? And Jesus did not come to make things easy. Spiritual Centre, 7020 Stanley Avenue, Niagara Falls.
He came to make people great. But there are challenges For our pamphlet, information, and registration call 905
- what are some challenges you face? Please consider -356-4113 or 905-684-0154, or email
joining us Monday at 7:30. Join Zoom Meeting: [email protected]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85007756217 Meetings will be held both in person at Mount
Carmel and virtually via Zoom platform.
Mother’s Day Plant and Craft Show - Save the date!!
APRIL 24, 2023 “Forgiveness and Grieving”
Dino Sicoli, Presenter

THURSDAY MORNING BINGO

In the St. Helen Church Hall
4106 Mountain Rd., Beamsville
Doors open at 10:00am, Bingo games start at 11:00am
Delicious Lunch Available

FRIDAY EVENING BINGO

Pizza available at 6pm, games start at 7:00pm
 EASTER SUNDAY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for Children Liturgy. We
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER are looking for mothers/fathers/teachers who will be
willing to lead our young parishioners at their own
All who believed were together children liturgy of the word during 11:00am Mass on
and had all things in common. Sundays (September - June). Police check required.
(Acts 2) If you are interested, please call parish office.
God has given us a new birth
into a living hope through the FEAST OF DIVINE MERCY
resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead. (1 Peter) During the course of Jesus' revelations to Saint Faustina
on the Divine Mercy He asked on numerous occasions
After eight days Jesus came and stood among them. (John 20) that a feast day be dedicated to the Divine Mercy and
We trace our roots as parish and faith communities to that this feast be celebrated on the Sunday after Easter.
Easter night when Jesus “breathed” his spirit of peace and The liturgical texts of that day, the 2nd Sunday of
reconciliation upon his frightened disciples, transforming Easter, concern the institution of the Sacrament of
them into the new Church. Penance, the Tribunal of the Divine Mercy, and are thus
The “peace” that Christ gives his new Church is not a already suited to the request of Our Lord. This Feast,
passive sense of good feeling or the mere absence of which had already been granted to the nation of Poland
conflict. Christ’s peace is hard work: the peace of the Easter and been celebrated within Vatican City, was granted to
Christ is to honor one another as children of the same Father the Universal Church by Pope John Paul II on the
in heaven; the peace of the Easter Christ seeks to build occasion of the canonization of Sr. Faustina on 30 April
bridges and find solutions rather than assigning blame or 2000. In a decree dated 23 May 2000, the Congregation
extracting punishment; the peace of Christ is centered in for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the
relationships that are just, ethical and moral.
Sacraments stated that "throughout
The “peace” that the Risen Christ breathes into us at Easter the world the Second Sunday of
shows us a way out of those tombs in which we bury Easter will receive the name Divine
ourselves; the forgiveness he extends enables us to get Mercy Sunday, a perennial invitation
beyond the facades we create and the rationalizations we to the Christian world to face, with
devise to justify them. Jesus’ entrusting to the disciples the
work of forgiveness is what it means to be the church: to
confidence in divine benevolence, the
accept one another, to affirm one another, to support one difficulties and trials that mankind
another as God has done for us in the Risen Christ. What will experience in the years to come."
brought the apostles and first Christians together as a These papal acts represent the highest
community – unity of heart, missionary witness, prayer, endorsement that the Church can give
reconciliation and healing – no less powerfully binds us to to a private revelation, an act of papal
one another as the Church of today. infallibility proclaiming the certain sanctity of the
While today’s Gospel has been ready by the Church as mystic, and the granting of a universal feast, as
Jesus’ instituting the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the whole requested by Our Lord to St. Faustina.
Christian community possesses the power to “forgive” and On this weekend we are celebrating the Feast of the
“retain,” and the grace to “bind” and “loosen.” The Risen Divine Mercy. You are welcome to celebrate Divine
Christ gives to every one of us the “power,” the “authority,” Mercy Sunday at St. Joseph Parish in Grimsby, on
the grace to forgive and to bind one another in love. SUNDAY APRIL 16TH AT 2:30 P.M. There will be
All of us, at one time or another, experience the doubt and a Holy Hour with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament,
skepticism of Thomas: While we have heard the good news the prayerful recitation of the Divine Mercy chaplet and
of Jesus’ empty tomb, all of our fears, problems and sorrows individual confessions as well.
prevent us from realizing it in our own lives. In raising his
beloved Son from the dead, God also raises our spirits to the Apr. 17 - Rev. Stephen Innamorati
realization of the totality and limitlessness of his love for us. Apr. 18 - Rev. Jean-Bosco Iyamuremye
We all have scars from our own Good Fridays that remain Apr. 19 - Rev. Edward Jankovwski
long after our own experiences of resurrection. Our “nail Apr.20 - Rev. Arockia Sunil Josapath
marks” remind us that all pain and grief, all ridicule and Apr. 21 - Rev. Mitchell Kasza
suffering are transformed into healing and peace in the love Apr. 22 - Rev. Jose Karikompil
of God we experience from others and that we extend them. Apr. 23 - Rev. Richard Kowalchuk
PRAYER FOR OUR PRIESTS
Lord Jesus Christ, You love Your church and those
called to share your priesthood. With our love and pray-
ers, we join you in asking our Heavenly Father to con-
tinue to pour out his gifts of holiness, compassion and
ardent zeal on your priests everywhere. Mary, Mother
of all Priests, pray this prayer with us. Amen.
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