Bulletin for the Week of April 27, 2008

ATTENTION ALL FAMILIES:
Looking for an opportunity to get away and enjoy your family? You are invited to one of three Family Guggenheim sessions (August 14-17, August 21-24 and October 10-12) to be held at the Guggenheim Center in Saranac Lake. Family Fun, prayer, swimming, workshops, mountain climbing, liturgy and more—please contact the rectory for more details and registration forms.

HOLY DAY:
The Feast of the Ascension of the Lord will be observed as a Holy Day of Obligation on Thursday, May 1st. Masses for this day will be at 8:30 AM and 5:30 PM.

MARRIAGE:
We congratulate and offer our prayers for a happy marriage to Roger DuBray and Andrea LaMora who were married in St. James Church on April 26th.

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER:
Today Jesus promises the next step. He will send us a paraclete, and advocate -- the Holy Spirit -- to continue his saving work. This is the hope we all have that keeps the church and us optimistic despite the troubles of the world. We need the complete Trinity, in whose names we are baptized, to lead a life that is “Spirit-based.”

BLESSING PRAYER OF SEEDS AT PLANTING TIME:
Lord of the harvest, you placed the gifts of creation in our hands and called us to till the earth and make it fruitful. We ask your blessing as we prepare to place these seeds and seedlings in the earth. May the care we show them remind us of your tender love for your people. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

CLOTHING STORE:
For your information the St. Joseph Church, Treadwells Mills Used Clothing Store is opened on Mondays and Fridays: 10 AM to 2 PM, and Wednesdays: 4 PM to 8 PM

SPORTSCAMP:
SPORTSCAMP at Wadhams Hall, Ogdensburg, is a great place where boys and girls ages 11-15 blend quality basketball and soccer training with personal and spiritual growth. Operated in two, five-day sessions, Week One (July 6-10) is dedicated to basketball and Week Two (July 13-17) to soccer. For more information email www.catholiccamps.org

CAMP GUGGENHEIM:
The Camp operates six weekly sessions from June 29th – August 8th. Each weekly Camp begins on Sunday at 3 pm and ends on Friday at noon. Weeks One through Five are specifically designated for 12-15 year olds. Week Six is for 16-18 year olds. The Camp fee is $235.00 including a non-refundable $100 deposit. For more information www.catholiccamps.org
One who has hope lives differently.
(Pope Benedict XVI)

CATHOLIC HOME MISSIONS:
The Catholic Home Mission Appeal provides funding to the global Archdiocese for Military Services, which sends approximately 300 active duty chaplains to offer Mass, sacraments, counselling and the comforts of faith to American Catholic soldiers and their families on 220 military bases around the world. Since 1998, this Catholic Home Mission Appeal has been a powerful expression of stewardship and our Catholic communion. Catholics from more prosperous parishes across America give generously to offer desperately needed help to the mission Church here at home. It is one practical way for parishes to be good stewards of God’s gifts and to make a difference.