Remember - summer season! - to check back in the archives to past issues in case you missed something.

Our friend Sheila Trainor saw us announce a house for sale last week and sent along another link to “one in the neighbourhood”

Keep those pilgrimage golfers in your prayers this week. Thursday is the day that the annual G4 conference begins. What is the G4? God, Golf, Goofin, Goodtimes. Malone BoyZ!

Also visit Tim’s Tidbits, Prayer Requests, & Upcoming Events.

Lighterside this week, was sent in by Cathy Egan and is called One Holy Mass. It is a must read story!

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to let you know that there's a house for sale right across the street from St. Mary's! It's at 196 Bayswater. The real estate agent is Susan Chell from Re/Max. It looks like a nice house, maybe 3-4 bedrooms.

Not sure how much it is but if you or anyone you know is wanting to move closer to St. Mary's then please pass this along. Here is Susan's website: http://www.susanchell.com/main.htm

God bless! Sheila
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"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer." - Corrie Ten Boom

Editor’s note: “here is the link” and the house is $379,900: http://oreb.mlxchange.com/Pub/EmailView.asp?r=1382378723&s=OTW&t=OTW

http://www.dennisontheweb.net/

Dear friends in Christ,

Please see the attached, which is being sent to our parish, Priests. If anyone would like to volunteer at his or her Church, please discuss it with your Priest. As this letter could be adjusted to suit any parish or Country in the World, please pass it on. Thank you and may God bless you.

On Sunday, August 6th, 2006, Kyram will be officially welcomed into his Parish Community, when his Baptismal Ritual will be completed. (He was baptised a few days after his birth). On this day his parents, Myles and Simone will also celebrate their 12th wedding anniversary. Since his birth at 1 pound, 10 ounces on December 21st, Kyram has gained 11 pounds. At first I wished that he had waited a few more days and arrived on Christmas day instead. However, had he stayed in the womb for that extra time he might not have made it as Simone is on dialysis and the machine clogged during her next session, causing the loss of a lot of blood, which might have resulted in Kyram's death, as it had done with one of his brothers. Thank you for all of your prayers. Kyram still needs them as he has a few 'preemie' problems. However, because this baby has already experienced so many miracles in his life, we are certain that God will continue to work in him and finish the work that He has started. Please pray that God will continue to bless the marriage of Myles and Simone. Simone is a 'rebel' of sorts and refused to listen to the Doctors who told her that she could not, and should not, have a baby. Neither she, nor Myles, approves of abortion, and they decided to change Hospitals when they learnt that they were expecting Kyram. We are hoping that their story will be a powerful example to others.

I have another prayer request. I am a member of a Group that organizes Conferences in our Archdiocese. Last year while going to our Conference - on the Eucharist - the brakes on my van failed, causing the van to hit the van in front of us, and that one to hit my son-in-law's van. My van had been driven by several different people over the few days prior to the accident and at this time was being driven by a friend. Praise God, no one was seriously injured. Within a month, one of my sons was trying to avoid an accident involving about four cars, by hitting the curb, when he ran into the back of the car in front of him. The policeman did not give him a ticket as he recognized that my son was not at fault. In fact, there is no record of this accident at the Department where my son went to obtain a police report. My son has a five star driving record. However, because of the two accidents, his Insurance Company has told him that they will be cancelling his policy. Even the person at the Department where my son had to go for the police report on the accident thinks that this is not fair. He said that he has heard that our Insurance Company does this sort of thing. Please pray that we will be able to obtain insurance coverage at a good rate soon as the deadline is the middle of the month and we cannot afford to pay exorbitant sums of money for insurance. Thank you.

In Christ,
Diane

Companions of the Cross, Ordination Anniversary Celebration

Come out and celebrate "The Anniversary of Ordination" of several Companions Priests: Fr Dennis Hayes (20 yrs), Fr Yves Marchildon (10 yrs), Fr Christian Reisbeck (10 yrs), and 5 yrs each for Fr Galen Bank. Fr Jerry Gauvreau. Fr John Fletcher, and Fr Ben St. Croix.

To be held on Monday, August 28th 2006, beginning with a Celebration Mass at 7 pm followed by a Champagne Reception at St Maurice Parish. Tickets are $15.00 per person and are available at the Companions Office 613-728-3175 or at St Maurice Parish office. No tickets will be sold at the Door.

Greetings.

I hope that you are enjoying God's blessing of a beautiful summer! I also hope that by now many of you have received the August issue of our Companions of the Cross newsletter. In it you will notice two upcoming events that we hope you can join us for (especially if you live in the Ottawa area). If you can't make them, we understand, but please keep praying for us! Here are some links to our Companions' web site that explain these great events (*requires Adobe Acrobat to view them):

1) mentioned above CC Ordination Anniversary Celebration:
http://www.companionscross.ca/upcoming-pages/CCAnniPoster.pdf

2) CC Feast of the Triumph of the Cross Mass:
http://www.companionscross.ca/upcoming-pages/sept14ad.pdf

Peace - Fr. John Vandenakker

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

August 5 – David Dumais celebrates #16.
August 8 is a busy day - Laura Victoria Backs will also turn 16, Joseph Hamon (47) & Justin Wade (8), will be blowing out candles as well.
August 9 – bonne fête mon frêre Denis Belanger (maybe, now you can borrow Joseph’s Malone NIC)

Happy 28th Anniversary Mom & Al MacDonald (August 7).

What was going on in VM – one year ago?
Editor, Sue Atkinson was on holidays so didn’t send out an update for two weeks.

If you go back a few years you will see:
Remember Mike & Pauline McGrath’s life back then?
http://virtualministry.com/Archives/VMArchive2002/VM145.htm