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Happy New Year, and all the best to our St.Luke families for 2023! With January comes a new season of reflection, planning, and learning. Through December we had the anticipation of Advent, the celebration of Christmas, and now the “opening” of the gift of Christmas through the Feast of the Epiphany today, January 6th. Epiphany allows us to revel in the birth of Jesus a little longer, reflecting on his human presence in our world. Soon we will enter back into Ordinary Time, and the remaining five months of the year will be busy ones.

A heartfelt thank you for your generous support during Advent for helping those families in need within our own community. It speaks volumes to the special people that make up the family of St. Luke.

We look forward to a wonderful year ahead!

A New Year Prayer

Holy Father, God of our yesterdays, our today, and our tomorrows.

We praise You for Your unequaled greatness.

Thank You for the year behind us and for the year ahead.

Help us in Your new year, Father, to fret less and laugh more.

To teach our children to laugh by laughing with them.

To teach others to love by loving them. Knowing, when Love came to the stable in Bethlehem, He came for us. So that Love could be with us, and we could know You.

That we could share Love with others.

Help us, Father, to hear Your love song at every sunrise, in the stories of our old folks, and the fantasies of our children.

We pray for peace, for light, and for hope, that we might spread them to others.

We accept Your gift of a new year and we rejoice in what's ahead, depending on You to help us do exactly what You want.

Amen.

Abundant blessings for 2023,

Cathy Hinger

Principal

We will be reopening Our Lady of Victory Camp (OLVC) for the summer of 2023. (Letter) Our Mission is: Encounter Christ, Encounter Community and Encounter Creation. We seek to help the young people build their friendship with Christ, build community with other young disciples, and to encounter God in His Creation. This is the tentative schedule we have for the summer:

• Saturday, July 8--Come & See/Grand Re-Opening Celebration
• July 9-13--High School Camp (Grades 10-12)
• July 16-20--Junior High Camp (Grades 7-9)
• July 23-27--(tentative) Benedict XVI Institute “Great Books” Week
• July 30-Aug 3--Elementary Camp (Grades 4-6)
• August 6-10--All Ages Camp (Grades 4-9)
• August 13-17 or 20-24--(tentative) Discipleship/Adventure Camp (Grades 9-12)

Registrations will open in early February 2023.

More informaiton is available at https://caedm.ca/camps.

Monday, January 9

Tuesday, January 10

• Crazy Hair Day
• Praise and Worship at 8:20am
• Deacon Lynn visit

Wednesday, January 11

Thursday, January 12

• Hot Lunch Purple Perogy

Friday, January 13

KINDERGARTEN/PRE-KINDERGARTEN OPEN HOUSE JANUARY 19th 6-7PM

Masses at OLPH will be livestreamed. Please join using this link. https://www.facebook.com/olphsherwoodpark/videos/

Visit OLPH Website for more information about the parish and in regards to sacremental preparation.

Read the lastest bullitin from OLPH or visit www.facebook.com/olphsherwoodpark

St. Francis of Assisi Parish is administered by Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sherwood Park. Please contact the parish for confession times and more information.

Clergy: Reverend Jim Corrigan, Pastor

Mass Time: Sunday 11:00

Email Address: StFrancisAssisi.Tofield(at)caedm.ca

5523 - 50 Street Tofield, AB T0B 4J0

See map: Google Maps

Principal

Email: Stl@eics.ab.ca
Website: stl.eics.ab.ca
Location: 22139 South Cooking Lake Road, Sherwood Park, AB, Canada
Phone: 780-922-5920
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stlukeeics
Twitter: @stlcs_EICS