HE IS RISEN! TRULY HE IS RISEN
AS HE SAID HE WOULD

Pentecost Novena starts TODAY … Thanks Tim for sending these:
Novena Of The Holy Spirit by St. Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/novena/Stein_spirit.htm
Holy Spirit Novena http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/novena/Holy_spirit.htm
Below you will see that Diane Naipaul has also included some valuable documentation

Our Archbishop agreed to stay on one more year … Are you praying for his replacement? Let’s all pray that God’s Will be done and that Mother Mary’s right bishop will shepherd us here!

Are you aware of wikipedia? Visit Tim’s TidBits and read about our own John Pacheco. Do you visit Madeleine’s page: John Pacheco Place. Tim also sent along this week’s Lighterside, “Christian One liners”

Please see Graham's Corner for information about the Doors Open event to be held in Ottawa on Saturday June 3 and Sunday June 4, during which historic and architecturally significant buildings (including churches) open their doors to the public, free of charge. Please also see Graham's Corner from last week for information on EWTN's coverage of Pope Benedict's visit to Poland from May 25 to 28.

Go to Dan’s Keyboard, where he will attempt to shed light on a couple of the popular myths surrounding Opus Dei.

I asked her to send me her "wish" list of items she might need/want. They are: phone, radio, mirror(s), clock, book shelf, pantry-type cupboard, microwave, office chair, small table (suitable for crafts), dresser, lamp(s), curtains, assistance putting curtains up, outdoor baby swing, bed frames: single, double and queen (have mattresses), bed side table, summer clothes for oldest daughter (size 8-10)

If anyone has an item or two listed above that they don't need anymore and would like to pass it along to this family, please contact me, Kim Hanekom by e-mail at Kim.Hanekom@gmail.com. I am a parishioner of St. Mary's Parish in Ottawa and have been for about eight years now.

Thanks in advance and God bless you.

Editor’s note: Thank you Kim for once again answering HIS call, and OF COURSE this is to be posted in VM. FOLKS! Come on and let’s be CHURCH. Remember to visit our http://virtualministry.com/contrib_pages/Testimonials.htm page to read of past successes, and let's overwhelm this friend of Kim’s.

Hi everybody, there's a job offer at Barbara Personnel for the Indian Residential School something.... I’m not sure I got that right. The main requirements are to have experience in Records Management and in using RMS and to be bilingual. They pay 17$/hour.... 12 weeks with the possibility of extending with another 3 months. So, if you are interested or you know anyone who would be interested call Barbara Personnel at 236-9689 and ask for France. She will give you all the details. Call as soon as possible.

Have a nice day, Aurelia M. Radu

Steven Gonzalez

As many of you know, the much-anticipated Da Vinci Code opened last weekend. Interestingly, the secular media seems to think the movie stinks. Although a few critics enjoyed it, the vast majority think it’s mediocre. So if the Vatican's call for a boycott hasn't convinced you yet, maybe your natural aversion to boredom might persuade you to avoid the movie. Below, I have copied some excerpts of what secular critics have said about the movie.

Some Christians have told me that they need to see the movie in order to be able to contradict its errors and enlighten "secular" people or fallen-away Christians who believe its falsehoods. I couldn't disagree more. If you find yourself in an argument, the "secular" people that have seen the movie will tell you what claims it makes; then you can proceed to refute them. You don't need to see this movie.

THE SECULAR CRITICS SPEAK...

"Da Vinci is a dud. The reviewers agree: There's little to get worked up about" - Ottawa Citizen

"Film version of The Da Vinci Code tumbles into the depths of mediocrity" -- Ottawa Sun

"Neither Hanks nor Tautou can save the most bloated film of the season" - Globe and Mail

"The film bogs down in its explain-everything scenes and the flashbacks" - Sun Media

"Vatican needn't fret; it's just a mediocre movie after all" - Ottawa Citizen

"Da Vinci groan" -- Globe and Mail

"Despite the running start from Brown's swift-moving prose, Howard just can't get the movie off the ground" - Calgary Herald

"Long, plodding" - The Record (Kitchener)

"What they've given us is a rather dull series of history and art lessons" - Sun Media

"No ultimate satisfaction in Da Vinci" - Times & Transcript (Moncton)

"As sturdy and versatile an actor as Hanks can be, he can't work miracles." - Associated Press

"Da Vinci never rises to the level of a guilty pleasure. Too much guilt. Not enough pleasure." - The Hollywood Reporter

"It's not a good sign when your film's big revelatory moment is greeted with laughter." -- Boston Herald

"Grim... lacklustre" -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"You know a movie's a dud when even its self-flagellating albino killer monk isn't any fun." -- Commercial Appeal (Memphis)

"How can a film contain so many clues yet remain utterly clueless?" -- Chicago Tribune

"Stodgy, grim thing" -- Variety magazine

"It's not very good -- long (2 hr., 32 min.) and mostly inert. Tom Hanks seems to sleepwalk through the part." -- Time magazine

"Lethally long-winded" -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"It is impossible to believe that, had the novel never existed, such a script would ever have been considered by a Hollywood studio." -- Daily Variety

Wayside Academy

Tickets are very limited for this particular event, so please let me know if I can reserve for you. It's Saturday, June 10th, 8 p.m. to midnight at Market Hall, downtown Peterborough.

See attached poster for more details.

Hope you can make it!

John O'Brien
Director
Wayside Academy
1834 Keene Rd.
Peterborough, ON K9J 6X9

Wk. 705.749.3658 Cell. 705.761.4949
www.waysideacademy.ca

Birthdays coming up this week are:
May 21 – Doug McColeman changes decade … its true, Doug will turn 30, on Sunday.

Do you know of one that should have been announced here?

What was going on in VM – one year ago?
http://virtualministry.com/Archives/VMArchive2005/VM292/VM292.htm

Go back another year and see the birth announcement, along with the baby’s website:
http://virtualministry.com/Archives/VMArchive2004/VM240/VM240.htm