Francis's Feast, Faith First Families & Follow-up

This Sunday (October 4th) is the Feast Day of our patron saint, Saint Francis of Assisi!

So you can expect some songs honouring St Francis.  Can you predict what any might be??

Also, we will be celebrating the start of this year's FAITH FIRST program. 
http://www.faithfirst.com/html/family/family.html
Karen and Chris are the leaders (aka Pastoral Agents) for our Cluster. Let's give them, the kids and their families a warm welcome and wishes for a good year...(there's a rumour that there might be cake...)

and - after mass (and coffee time), the Contemplative Prayer Group will be having its 2nd (follow-up) meeting in the Oak Room. Parishioner Ray T., has started this support group - it's a great opportunity to learn more about developing a personal spirituality through prayer. All are welcome!

All of the above (and more - always more!)  is in the calendar at the bottom of the webpage...
http://stfrancis-stlambert.blogspot.com/

Peace & Performance

This past weekend Mass, Fr. Gerard spoke about the new Diocesan guidelines for H1N1 flu prevention.

One of our parishioners emailed,  suggesting that during the Sign of Peace, instead of shaking hands, we could adopt the hand gesture of peace...try it out next Mass!

and,
CALLING ALL PERFORMERS!!


coffeehouse talent night at St Francis - Saturday, Oct. 17 - 7pm.
singers, musicians, jugglers, spoken-word artists, etc. (but no mimes please).
sign up now by emailing:
stfrancischoir@hotmail.com

Catechism, & a Synagogue visit.

This coming Sunday, September 20  is "Catechetical Sunday"  What is Catechism?  

  I looked it up...!
cat·e·chism 

noun a book, in question and answer form, summarizing the basic principles of Christianity a basic manual in some subject a set of questions designed to determine knowledge

This Sunday, all across Quebec, the emphasis is on learning about our Faith!


also...
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Interested in visiting a synagogue? 
Our diocese is organizing a field trip to Temple Emanu-El-Beth-Sholom, 
        4100 Sherbrooke West, Montreal.
         on the evening of  Friday Oct. 30^th
Although some of the explanations will be in French, the service itself will be in Hebrew and English.  Register by email at interreligieux@videotron.ca 
  or email us at stfrancis.stlambert@gmail.com  and we can send you more info.
Shalom.

Welcome . . .

...to St. Francis of Assisi's new website!

This is just one more way for you to keep up with what's going on at the church.
You can bookmark this page to check what's new now and then, or,
enter your email address on the right-hand side (under "Subscribe via email")
to receive notices in you inBox - we're thinking of sending updates about once per week.

(also check out the CALENDAR at the very bottom...just click on an event - and a little window pops up
with details and a map)

Let us know what you think (by commenting below)...or in-person at church on Sunday.

John