Highlights:
- Join us for breakfast this Sunday, Feb. 2nd! Community Breakfast details follow
- Tax Receipts ready for pick up – please help us save the cost of postage and take home your receipt located at the church where you donate
- Save the dates: Men’s Retreat – see details below
- Men’s Retreat – see details below
- Mustard Seeds Reunion
Community Breakfast Sunday, February 2nd following 9 am Mass and serving until 1 pm. Cost: free will offering for Holy Family Parish We thank the Knights for organizing these fellowship and fund raising events!
Stewardship Update As you may have heard, Father Romelito has formed an advisory Stewardship Committee to assist him in bringing a Stewardship approach and culture to Holy Family Parish. In addition to Father, committee members include Sebastian Aka, Mary Margaret Beitz, Norma Jeanne King, Bryan Plumstead and Jim Zettel.
As a guiding vision of Stewardship at Holy Family begins to take shape, we are working to update a list of all parish groups and ministries, with a view to creating a Parish Directory. The goal is to provide ease of access to the wide variety of opportunities available in our parish and celebrate their many good works. We will be sending out a form to organizers/coordinators asking for your help by filling out the form which will provide us with some basic information. One of our committee members will be reaching out to you to connect and answer any questions you might have. Thank you for all you do!
All Men of the parish, (St. Francis & St. Anne included) Hanover K of C is sponsoring a half-day retreat here on Feb. 22nd, beginning with 9:00 am Mass and ending with lunch at 12:30. Guest celebrant and speaker is Fr. Ignatius Saiki OP. Save the Date.
Adoration Chapel
This Sunday we celebrate our 27th anniversary of the opening of the chapel. We praise and thank God for all his blessings and the commitment and dedication of the people who come to pray and bring the needs of the community before His Most Holy Sacrament. If you would like to sub or commit to a regular adoration hour, please contact Don at 519-364-1185
Change for Charity Jar Next weekend, the 8/9th of February the CWL will put out the Change for Charity jar. We collect your change to donate to Saugeen Hospice. A Hospice location in Walkerton will offer loving and compassionate end of life care to those in need in our area. Please empty your pockets into the jar next weekend and let’s get it built!
Wedding Anniversary Mass: Sun. June 1st at 1:30 pm at the Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King Hamilton. Those who during 2025 will be celebrating their 25th, 40th, 50th or 60th (or more) are invited to register at www.hamiltondiocese.com or call the parish office for assistance.
Jubilee Year of Hope – Jubilee Pilgrim Centre A church in each deanery of our dioceses has been declared as the Jubilee Pilgrim Centre. These churches will have a replica of the Holy Door. Parishioners of the Deanery can visit the Pilgrim Centre on certain days when the church will be open. Our Deanery church for the Jubilee 2025 is Immaculate Conception Church, Formosa. Parishioners can visit on the following days this year to receive graces: Friday, March 14th, Friday May 9th, Friday, Aug. 8, & Monday,
Dec. 8. On these days the Church opens at 10 am, Exposition at 10:30 am, Reposition at 4:30 pm; Mass at 5 pm.
There is also a Day of Reconciliation: Sat. April 5th, from 10 am – 4 pm Priests will be available to hear confessions. All are warmly invited to share these moments of grace!
St. Francis Xavier Quilting
The Carlsruhe ladies will begin tying quilts on Monday, January 6, 2025, at the hall of the Carlsruhe Church. We start at 1:00 to 4:00 on Monday afternoons. These quilts are sent to Dr. Simone in Toronto and are forwarded to third world countries. Everyone is welcome & no experience is necessary. If you need more information please call Anne Schwan 367-5466, Cathy Weber 881-1448 or Joan Stroeder 881-0978.
Card Party Tuesday Join with others for a friendly game of euchre or solo on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in the Holy Family Lenhard Room. Bring a friend. $2. admittance
Two As One Series for Married Couples Two As One winter series runs each Thursday evening after Mass, starting January 23rd, and will continue for six weeks. This is a great opportunity for a weekly Catholic reflection on marriage, and to share some fellowship with other married couples in our parish. Married couples of all ages, please consider joining us!
Canadian Food for Children Team requires coordinator
To assist the team of volunteers in place the CFFC team requires a person who can load and unload the packed boxes from here to Cuneo’s warehouse on packing days which is generally about every 4-6 weeks on a Monday morning. If this is something you are interested in helping out with, please contact the parish office for more information.
Reflection on Today’s Gospel Luke 2: 22-40 Discussion Questions
- Even in their old age, God had a great purpose for Simeon and Anna. What do you sense that God has planned for you to accomplish in your life?
- What would be the crowning joy for you in your old age?
- Simeon declared that Jesus would be the “light” How has Christ brought light to your life in the past? What is he illuminating about your spiritual life now?
SUNDAY LITURGIES (Feb 1/2)
The Presentation of the Lord
Saturday Vigil Masses
4:00 pm Location: St. Anne’s Chesley
Eternal Happiness of Bernard & Glenna Oberle, Adrian Oberle, Norman & Tulita Oberle – B. Oberle Estate
6:00 pm Eternal Happiness of Bernard Tuck – F.J. Gross
Sunday,
9 am Mass For all the people of the Parish & Parish Missions
11 am Mass – Location: St. Francis Xavier, Carlsruhe
Eternal Happiness of Ednar Hahn – Dan & Angela Seifried
Tuesday: 7 pm Mass
Jack Hesch – Tammy Chamberlain
Rita Dosman – Laura Hergott
Bruce Thompson – John & Ruth Chapman
Intentions of the Aulthouse Family – The Lorenz Family
Intentions of Gerry & Marlene Poechman – Society of St. Vinc. De Paul
Intentions of Sam & Michelle Zettel & Family – Tony & Stephanie Zettel
Wednesday 9 am Mass
Jenny Near – Ray & Pat Pegelo
Hugh & Lillian Weiler – The H.E. Weiler Family
Intentions of Lori – Mom
Intentions of Norma Jeanne – Kay Mc Manus
Intentions of Jean Trafford – Mila
Intentions of Zoe Aarts – Annie
Thursday:
10:30 am Location: The Villa (LTC)
Irene Chornaby – Bob Beckberger
7:00 pm Mass
Bernard & Glenna Oberle, Adrian Oberle, Norman & Tulita Oberle – B. Oberle Estate
Friday:
No 9 am Mass
11:00 am Funeral Mass for Catharina (Tina) Schut
SUNDAY LITURGIES
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Feb 8/9)
Saturday Vigil Masses
6:00 pm
Eternal Happiness of Gerard & Joan Hundt – The Family
Sunday,
9 am Mass For all the people of the Parish & Parish Missions
11 am Mass – Location: St. Francis Xavier, Carlsruhe
Eternal Happiness of Bert Stroeder – John & Darlene Hunt
