Our Lady of Mercy Church St. Anthony of Padua Mission
196 Bridge Street West, P.O. Box 879 27 Victoria Street, P.O. Box 1200
Bancroft, ON, K0L 1C0 Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0
613-332-2954 Reverend Casmir Muobike SMMM, Parish Priest 705-457-3695
Email: olmbancroft@gmail.com Email: stanthonyhal@bellnet.ca https://olmbancroft.wixsite.com/ourladyofmercy https://stanthonyhal.wixsite.com/stanthonyofpadua
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Office Hours: Office Hours:
Tuesday & Thursday from 9:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Tuesdays from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Secretary: Mrs. Kathy Tripp Secretary: Mrs. Catherine Wheeler
Our Lady of Mercy School: 613-332-3300
~ TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~
October 10 and 11, 2026
*** HAPPY THANKSGIVING ***
Saturday - Haliburton 4:30 pm Jeanette Wagenaar – St. Anthony’s Parish
- Haliburton 8:00 am Missa Pro Populo – Mass for the People
Sunday - Bancroft 10:15 am Leona and Shirley – Rita Irwin
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ROSARY WILL BE PRAYED BEFORE THE 9:00 AM MASS
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT @ OLM - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
2:30 pm - 3:30pm
Monday - Bancroft 9:00 am Gary and Katherine Basset – Jack and Roseanne Wilson
Tuesday - Bancroft 9:00 am Wayne Marentette – Michael Marentette
Wednesday - Haliburton 8:30 am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9:00 am Rosary
9:30 am For the Poor
- Extendicare 11:00 am Beno Luna – His Estate
Thursday - Bancroft Memorial of St. Teresa of Jesus
8:30 am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9:00 am Rosary
9:30 am Special Intentions of Ewa Konopka – Richard and Ala Konopka
Friday - Bancroft 9:00 am Memorial of St. Marie-Marguerite D’Youville
Mieczyslaw and Maria Konopka – Richard Konopka
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~ TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~
October 17 and 18, 2026
Saturday - Haliburton 4:30 pm Missa Pro Populo – Mass for the People
Sunday - Bancroft 10:00 am Doris Manteuffel – John and Kathy Pires
PRAYER CORNER
Katherine Flowers, Matt and Kate Flowers,
Samantha Spencer, Silas Agina, Rita Stock,
Thomas Smallwood, Mary and Paul Hall,
Brian Dunn, Barb Perog, Stacie Burnett,
Reuben Maughan, Dennis Purcell,
Marie Giamblanco, Mike Flanagan,
Annette Giamblanco,
Carolyne Morais, Frank Young,
Roger Musclow, Joanna Kastner,
Barry Malloy, Tommy and Tammy White,
Baby Jacob, Cathy Cormier
Thomas Anderson,
John Muobike, Kristina Hicks,
Margie Stasiuk, Jerome Leveque,
Marina Maughan, Gerry Waltenbury,
Sandra, Gary and Evan Wheeler
A.S. Crean, Rose Connaughan,
Alison McEvoy, Melissa Stephens,
Shannon Cole, Justin Reid, Hudson Reid
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UPCOMING PARISH MEETINGS
OUR LADY OF MERCY
Parish Finance
Thursday, October 15th at 4:00 pm
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ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA
SAVE THE DATE
Upcoming events you do NOT want to miss:
GAMES DAY:
Sunday, November 15th;
ANNUAL PARISH CHRISTMAS POTLUCK
AND LOONIE AUCTION:
Saturday, November 28th
More details to come in the following weeks.
ST. ANTHONY’S MISSION
Sunday Mass Attendance: 57
ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA
SANCTUARY LAMP
For the week commencing
Sunday, Oct. 11th – Oct. 17th:
All souls in Purgatory.
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OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH
Sunday Mass Attendance: 110
OUR LADY OF MERCY
SANCTUARY LAMP
For the week commencing
Sunday, Oct. 11th – Oct. 17th:
Souls in Purgatory.
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ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA
FAMILY FAITH FORMATION
The Family Faith Formation Group
is inviting everyone for a walk on
Sunday October 25th at 1:00 pm.
We will be meeting at the Head Lake parking lot and taking a walk along the Rail Trail. We will walk for approximately 1.5 hours and then return to the Church hall for some tea/drinks and treats. If you are interested in joining us, there is a sign up sheet in the foyer so we know how many to expect.
All are welcome to join!
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Once again we have to speak of the Kingdom of God as a banquet, as a feast, as an invitation of God Himself to each one of us to come and share His divine life. Just as we can be seen as people invited to care for the vineyard of the Lord, so also we can be seen as those invited to this great feast.
The message is again clear that there is no cost involved in this feast, other than accepting the invitation of God Himself. And so often we can’t believe that there could be any value at all in something that costs nothing. Is God fooling us? Doesn’t God really demand every aspect of our lives in return for this gift of eternal life?
Sometimes we don’t want to become part of the Kingdom because it would demand that we change our lives. Somehow we have this irrational fear that changing our lives in the way that God asks of us will be a terrible experience. We have grown to believe somehow that conversion to God means giving up all the joys and gladness of this world and then somehow enduring with suffering in this life so that in the next we might have joy.
But this is surely not God’s message to us. Rather, God is always inviting us to live a life of wisdom, a life of joy and gladness because we are trying to live in Him. There is no sense that the realities of this world are evil or bad or dirty or somehow against God. But we ourselves sometimes use the goods and the values of this world in ways that damage ourselves and one another.
The wisdom teachings of the Scriptures are about how to use rightly the gifts of this world so that even now we begin to live in the Kingdom of God, preparing ourselves for the world to come.
The first step to the kingdom for those of us who choose to follow Christ is baptism. And the ending of today’s Gospel is probably a reference to baptism. We have to be careful to recognize that even in the early Church there was a recognition that there was the possibility of baptism by desire. Today our Catholic teachings that non-Christians can be saved seem to be an extension of this baptism by desire, recognizing that lots of people are really searching for and longing for an encounter with the living God, even though they may not be able to express this desire in any understandable way so far in their lives.
So the real condition is this longing for God, longing for divine love, longing for justice. All we have to do is think of the beatitudes.
Then we must start living. Living is about learning to live well. This is what wisdom is: living well the divine life that is given to us. We should enjoy completely the gifts of this world, always using them for God’s glory. Some of us are called to live as chaste celibates—and that should never be seen as a denial of the joy of marriage or of sexuality. It is simply another call given by God to which some of us must respond.
What really makes the difference is when we are so involved in the relationship with God that all we care about is doing what He wants. Life becomes so fully alive and so filled with joy that any thought that we must give up something is transformed into the thought of what more I can do to live for my God.
Let us come to the banquet of the Lord today and give thanks for His invitation to share His life. May each one of us rejoice in his or her personal call. May we all rejoice that we have been called to form this community of believers. And may we rejoice in the life given to us and use all our energies to respond to this God of love.
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OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH
JOHN PAUL MOREAU
“Please, God, What’s the answer?
John Paul and his wife, Anna, will be joining us on
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH
To talk about his new book recently published.
We will be having a Potluck dinner beginning at 5:00 pm for a time to meet John Paul and Anna
Talk will begin at 6:00 pm
EVERYONE IS WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO COME
– COME AND BRING A FRIEND!!!
