The Office of Vocations is hosting a day retreat at St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Richmond Hill on Saturday, April 29, 2017 (from 9am to 5pm). Provides a time to pray, interact & socialize with other young Catholic men. Seminarians will deliver talks on practical aspects of faith. Day includes Holy Mass, Adoration & Confession. For more information please contact your pastor or call the Office of Vocations at 416-968-0997 or email: vocations@archtoronto.org

Holy Saturday – April 15

• 8:30 PM: Easter Vigil
• (No 5 PM Mass)

Easter Sunday – April 16

• 9:00 AM: Easter Sunday Mass
• 11:15 AM: Easter Sunday Mass
• (No evening 6:00 PM Mass on Easter Sunday)

• Our parish community extends a special word of thanks and gratitude to all liturgical ministers and to all those who helped make our celebrations so prayerful
• All involved in assisting in the preparation of our adult candidates for the Sacraments of Initiation at the Easter Vigil
• Our musicians for providing the beautiful music which greatly enhanced the Triduum Liturgies of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil
• All Lectors and Eucharistic ministers, Altar Servers and Ushers for their endless dedication
• Our Sacristans for the fine work in helping prepare and make the Triduum liturgies run so smoothly
• Many thanks to all who made donations for flowers

The annual winter welcome table appreciation dinner for the volunteers will take place on Monday, April 24, 2017 beginning with Mass at 5:30 PM at St. Joan of Arc followed by dinner . We look forward to seeing you again!!!

We congratulate and welcome our neophytes (newly baptized and fully initiated) to our parish community:

• Susan Leong-Lum
• Rosanne Mills
• Zeljko Bavcevic

We also congratulate and welcome those received into full communion:

• Sean Bernard Graham Aherne Biesbroek
• Mark  S.  Jaraczuk

Congratulations to our adult Confirmandi:

• Nicole Windsor

His resurrection is a gift that lights our way and brings joy and peace to our hearts.
May God’s blessings be with you at Easter ~ St. Peter’s Staff ~

Living the Gospel by evangelizing our faith in the greater world..

St. Anthony’s parish in the Diocese of Guntur in India has nine mission stations which are between 10-15 kilometres away from the parish. There are nearly 350 Catholic families and five hundred children going to school from these areas. As the mission stations are a distance from the parish, the faithful do not experience many religious activities. Father Mayakuntala Kumar, pastor of the parish, with the support of the Pastoral Mission Fund and ShareLife, is conducting a Children Faith Formation Camp to help the children to become rooted in the Catholic faith. With our support, Father Kumar is helping to evangelize the faith not only for today, but for the future as well.

Next ShareLife Sunday is May 7, 2017.  Please give generously.

St. Peter’s Office will be closed on Easter Monday, April 17. Daily Mass on that day will be at 10:00 AM in the Centre Chapel. There will be no adoration on that day.

The parish will have a spring bazaar and bake sale on the weekend of May 6 and May 7. It will take place on Saturday, May 6 from 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM and Sunday, May 7 from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Please come and support the parish at our Spring Bazaar.

In order that the Parish community of St. Peter’s might always be a warm and welcoming place for those who visit, the parish needs more people to participate in the ministry of greeting and welcoming. Those who exercise this ministry greet people before Mass, assist with the collection and help people to find the way around the parish community. If you would be interested in this ministry, please call the parish office to sign up (416-534-4219). There will be a workshop for new greeters/ushers on Saturday, April 29th at 2:00 PM  in the Church.

Good Friday, April 14, after 3:00 PM service commemorating the Passion of our Lord.

There will be NO confessions on Holy Saturday.