Find out what's happening in the Parish this new year.
In this issue
Holy Week Events
Easter Morning Parish Activities
Lenten Penitential Service
Buy Tickets for Seven Churches Visitations
Food for the Needy St. Vincent de Paul
Assumption Adoration Event
Archbishop Miller's Letter for Share Lent
Fr. Rob Gala Concert
Holy Week Events
Easter Morning Parish Activities
Join us after Mass on Easter Sunday morning for brunch in the Parish Hall and kids games in the courtyard. An Easter Egg hunt will be held after the 11 am Mass.
Lenten Penitential Service
Bus Tickets for Seven Churches Visitation
On Holy Thursday, April 14, the parish will take a busload of parishioners on the traditional Seven Churches Visitation. The bus will leave All Saints at 8:45 pm and return at 11:15 pm. Bus tickets will be on sale for $10 beginning next Sunday, April 3, at the Parish Office or the Information Desk.
Food for the needy - St. Vincent de Paul
Parishioners are encouraged to bring food items to the7 pm mass on Holy Thursday, April 14.
St. Vincent de Paul Society requests the following food items:
Cereal
juice
coffee, tea
pancake syrup
peanut butter
canned fish and meats
granola bars
crackers
canned pork; beans, canned spaghetti, canned chilli.
Additionally, due to the recent flood in the Fraser Valley, many migrant workers lost their means of transportation - their bicycles. St. Luke`s St. Vincent de Paul is appealing for new or used bikes to help replace 200 bikes lost. Old or damaged bikes will be accepted as parts that can be used to repair fixable bikes. Please call our Helpline at 604-518-7200 if you can help.
St. Vincent de Paul helps with food, household furnishings and other necessities. If you or anyone you know requires help call our Helpline at 604-518-7200 and leave your name and phone number.
Needing an Easter hamper? Let us know before Easter week, April 11, 2022.
Assumption Adoration Event
Archbishop Miller’s letter for Share Lent
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
During Lent, each of us, by fasting and prayer, journeys with the Lord in his forty days of trial in the wilderness. At this holy season, we are also encouraged to be generous to those who find themselves in the deserts of our world.
In his encyclical Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis calls us to a life of “ecological integral conversion,” and to see ourselves as part of the “one human family.” By looking upon the face of God in each of our brothers and sisters, we fulfil our duty to care for God’s wondrous creation.
In response to the Holy Father’s plea for us “to hear the cry of the poor and to hear the cry of the Earth,” Development and Peace - Caritas Canada has adopted as this year’s Share Lent theme: “People and Planet First.” Your prayers and generous financial support are especially necessary in the face of the devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the increasing changes in our climate. Floods, fires and drought combine with a lack of social justice and peace to impoverish and disproportionately hurt our needy brothers and sisters in the Global South.
April 3, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, is this year’s Solidarity Sunday. After 55 years in existence, working in 27 countries on 85 community development and humanitarian aid projects, Development & Peace bears witness that your ongoing generosity has had a positive impact on an estimated 15.6 million people. I ask you once again to please be as generous as possible in your almsgiving to the Share Lent collection on April 3. It will bring relief to the suffering of countless of brothers and sisters in developing countries.
Please also keep in your prayers the people of Ukraine, that the good Lord will inspire peacemakers to bring a speedy end to the horrific conflict there.
With gratitude for your generous solidarity with our brothers and sisters in need, and with the assurance of my prayers for you and your families during this Lenten season, I remain
Sincerely yours in Christ,
J. Michael Miller, CSB
Archbishop of Vancouver
Fr. Rob Galea Concert
Fr Rob Galea is coming to Vancouver Sat June 25th. It will be at the Executive Plaza Hotel in Coquitlam. It's a 3-course sit-down dinner and concert fundraiser; $100/person and proceeds support FRG Ministry, the local food bank and St Clare's Monastery in Mission. It'll be an amazing, unique opportunity to listen to Fr Rob in person. Doors open at 6 pm. The program starts at 6:30 pm.
