The Painting at St. Peter's Continues

Kinkora Hall Openning Celebration

Some pictures from my last parish, where the parishioners helped build the hall. They will be celebrating the offical blessing of the building this coming June.

Good Work!!

Midland Youth Thingy

Yes, we are going to Midland July 17-20. It is the Ontario Regional World Youth Day Gathering in Midland hosted by the Office of Youth Ministry of the Arch-diocese of Toronto. Say that fast three times.

I still want a better name for our group but until Grace, Therese and Marty think of better name I am going to call it The Midland Youth Thingy. I have created a blog to keep you up to date.

Framing and Plaster Work

The confessional area has been renewed creating a niche for the bust of Brother Andre.

Blessed Brother Andre, Pray for us and our families.

Cluster Foodgrains Bank Project

See CBC Video

The daily ration for the Smith family contained 400 grams of cereal (cornmeal, wheat, or rice), 50 grams of pulse (lentils or beans), 50 grams of cooking oil, and 5 grams of salt, for a total of 2,100 calories per day. Water to drink.
Are you interested in taking the Three-Day Rations Challenge? Go to the End Hunger Fast website of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank for details. And tell us what you discovered after your 3-day experience by posting a comment to this webpage!

Local World Youth Day

World Youth Day 2008 Ontario Regional Celebration
Martyrs’ Shrine Midland
July 17-20, 2008

Not going to Sydney?
Come celebrate World Youth Day at Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland July 17-20, 2008

Some things you can expect @ the Shrine:

Catechesis
Music
Festival
Reconciliation
Adoration
Mass
Events in Sydney broadcast on 30ft. screen
See below for an outline of the intinerary of the events taking place that weekend

The cost of registration for WYD 2008 Local is $150 before May 15 and $175 afterwards. In addition, signing-up before May 15 will make you eligible for early-bird incentives. To receive more information updates including the start of registration and early-bird prizes, please leave your name and email address.

Itinerary Outline:

Thursday July 17, 2008

** Please note that Thursday is intended to be a “travel day” and, therefore, programming is slightly more informal. However, we do encourage you to try to be there in time to hear His Excellency, Bishop Hundt, as he will be on-hand to welcome you and help set the tone of the weekend. **

6:00 p.m. Participant Arrival/ Tent Set-up
9:00 p.m. Short welcome/ address by Bishop Hundt
9:30 p.m. Evening program begins
12:00 a.m. Lights Out

Friday July 18

7:00 a.m. Wake up
7:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Official kick-off
10:00 a.m. Catechesis
11:00 a.m. Mass
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30- 6:30 p.m. Free Time/ Faith Connections Expo tent
6:30 p.m. Dinner/ Reconciliation
8:00 p.m. Way of the Cross
9:15 p.m. Break
9:30 p.m. Keynote address by Marc Kielburger
10:30 p.m. Evening event
1 a.m. Lights Out

Saturday July 19, 2008

7:30 a.m. Wake up
8:30 a.m. Breakfast
10:00 a.m. Catechesis
11:00 a.m. Mass
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 6:30 p.m. Free Time/ Faith Connections Expo tent
6:30 p.m. Dinner / Reconciliation
8:00 p.m. Vespers
9:15 p.m. Break
9:30 p.m. Concert - Give Me A Voice Contest Winners
10:30 p.m. - Critical Mass
11:30 p.m. Evening event
1 a.m. Lights Out

Sunday July 20, 2008

7:00 a.m. Wake up
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Prepare for Mass
9:00 a.m. Mass / Sending forth
10:30 a.m. Departure


Click here to see the website for Martyrs' Shrine in Midland.

Key Note Speaker for Regional World Youth Day

MARC KIELBURGER
Me To We
Marc Kielburger is an accomplished social advocate and leadership specialist, a bestselling author and a popular speaker. He is the co-founder and chief executive director of Leaders Today, the world's top youth leadership training organization, which delivers one-of-a-kind local and international training experiences to more than 350,000 youth every year. He is also chief executive director of Free The Children, the world’s largest network of children helping children through education.Kielburger has been recognized for his vision and leadership with Canada's Top 40 Under 40 award, has received an Ashoka Fellowship for his innovation and commitment to social change and has been honored as a 2007 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, later winning a Rhodes Scholarship to complete a law degree at Oxford University. Kielburger is the co-author of the bestsellers Take Action! —A Guide to Active Citizenship and Take More Action. His most recent book, Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World, is co-authored with his brother Craig and published by Simon & Schuster. It recently hit the number five spot on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Together with Craig, Kielburger now writes a regular column for Canada's largest newspaper, the Toronto Star. A sought-after speaker, he has shared the podium a number of times with former U.S. president Bill Clinton, as well as with such world-renowned leaders as Nelson Mandela, Queen Noor and the Dalai Lama. Kielburger has shown the world that young people can become the leaders of today. His work has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, CBC, BBC, 60 Minutes and profiled in numerous newspapers and magazines.

Beautiful Quote from: Pope John XXIII

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do