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SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

July 26 and 27, 2025​

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Saturday          - Haliburton              4:30 pm           Missa Pro Populo – Mass for the People

 

Sunday            - Bancroft                 10:00 am           Jerzy Kruczkowski – Andrew and Marzenna Kruczkowski

 

*** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ROSARY IS PRAYED BEFORE MASS AT 8:30 AM ***

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Monday            - Bancroft                9:00 am            Special Intentions of Daughters of St. Mary of Leuca 

                                                                                                

Tuesday            - Bancroft                9:00 am            Memorial of Sts. Martha, Mary and Lazarus

                                                                                       Special Intentions of John and Larry Burcher                                                                                                                               – Pauline Burcher

                                   

Wednesday      - Haliburton            8:30 am              Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

                                                            9:00 am              Rosary

                                                            9:30 am              Anita Hamilton – Maria, Claire and James

   

Thursday          - Bancroft                9:00 am              Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola

                                                                                       Special Intentions of Drew Dawson                                                                                                                                                – John and Maria Dawson

                                                                                   

First Friday       - Bancroft                                          Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori

                                                            8:30 am            Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

                                                            9:00 am            Rosary

                                                            9:30 am           Souls in Purgatory

 

First Saturday   - Bancroft              9:00 am            Special Intentions of Andrew and Marzenna

                                                                                      Kruczkowski on their wedding anniversary

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~ EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME~

August 2 and 3, 2025​

  

Saturday          - Haliburton          4:30 pm           Deceased Members of the Catholic Women’s League - CWL

 

Sunday            - Haliburton           8:00 am           Missa Pro Populo – Mass for the People

 

                         - Bancroft               10:15 am           Julian Marzec – Danuta Wijas

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  THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME:   The Gospel is from St. Luke, 11:1-13 in which we hear Luke's rendition of the "Our Father" and Jesus' teaching on prayer.

The Our Father is certainly the most sublime formula possible and contains the whole essence of the most elevated mental prayer. However, Jesus gave it as a formula for vocal prayer: " When you pray, say. . . " (ibid. 11:2). This is enough to make us understand the value and importance of vocal prayer, which is within the reach of everyone even children, the uneducated, the sick, the weary.... But we must realize that vocal prayer does not consist only in the repetition of a certain formula. If this were true, we should have a recitation but not a prayer, for prayer always requires a movement, an elevation of the soul toward God. In this sense, Jesus instructed His disciples: "When thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret.... And when you are praying, speak not much as the heathens" (Mt 6:6-7). It is interesting to note that in St. Matthew these prescriptions concerning the exterior and interior dispositions necessary for well-made prayer immediately precede the teaching of the Our Father.

Therefore, in order that our vocal prayer be real prayer, we must first recollect ourselves in the presence of God, approach Him, and make contact with Him. Only when we have such dispositions will the words we pronounce with our lips express our interior devotion and be able to sustain and nourish it. Unfortunately, inclined as we are to grasp the material part of things instead of the spiritual, it is only too easy in our vocal prayer to content ourselves with a mechanical recitation, without taking care to direct our heart to God; hence we should always be vigilant and alert. Vocal prayer made only by the lips dissipates and wearies the soul instead of recollecting it in God; it cannot be said that this is a means of uniting us more closely to Him.

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—Divine Intimacy Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D

 

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ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA

 

 ‘Cook’s Night Out'

Raffle

 

Buy your Raffle Tickets for a chance to win an ITALIAN DINNER FOR SIX! 

You will be able to:

 

Choose from four (4) different entrees,

Two types of salads and

Tiramisu for dessert.

 

The raffle will run from now until the end of the summer. So buy your tickets now!! Tickets will be available to purchase after Mass. The draw will be held over the Labour Day weekend. There will be flyers handed out to everyone who purchases tickets with all the information regarding menu options, winner details, delivery options etc. Don’t miss out on your chance for a wonderfully delicious home cooked Italian Dinner for your family and/or friends!  

 

Thank you for all your support for St. Anthony’s.

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