We invite you to join us for an Easter bake sale on Saturday, April 6 after the 5 PM Mass and on Sunday, April 7, after the 9 am and 11:15 am Masses in the Church auditorium. All are welcome!
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Lenten Reconciliation Service
Lenten Reconciliation Services will take place on:
- Saturday, April 6, from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM .There will be several priests hearing Confessions.
- Good Friday, April 19 after 3:00 PM service commemorating the Passion of our Lord until 5:30 PM
Private reconciliation every Saturday from 3:45 – 4:30 PM
Glaze Craze
Estate Planning Seminar
Our parish, together with the Development Office of the Archdiocese of Toronto, will be hosting a FREE CATHOLIC ESTATE PLANNING SEMINAR on Thursday, April 4, 2019, starting at 7 pm in the Church Auditorium.
Come and learn about the importance of a Will, Powers of Attorney & Estate Planning. The Archdiocese of Toronto estate planning team will share:
- How to protect your loved ones with a proper Will
- How to ensure your wishes are legally protected
- About Powers of Attorney
- Estate Trustee selection
- Finding lawyers and estate planning advisors
- Our Catholic traditions around wills, cremation, burial and funerals
An estate planning kit will be provided at no cost. Light snacks will be served.
Good estate planning ensures that your family is cared for should something happen to you, and that your assets will go where you want it to. Please consider attending this seminar. It’s for FREE and everyone’s invited! Should you have questions, please contact the parish office.
Parish Lenten Retreat on the “Parable of the Prodigal Son”
The Jesuit community of Howland Avenue will be offering the parish Lenten retreat on the “Parable of the Prodigal Son”. Fr. Joseph Schner, sj, the community’s superior, will preach on the weekend of March 30 and 31 and members of the Scholastic Community will present the retreat talks on April 1, April 2nd and April 3rd at 7:00 PM in the Church. Please make time to attend our Parish’s Lenten Retreat.
Spring Forward – March 10, 2019
This weekend, March 10, is the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. We ask you to please remember to set your clocks, watches, and other time keeping devices ahead one hour next Saturday evening before retiring for the evening so that you will arrive on time for Sunday Mass.
St. Patrick’s Day Coffee Hour – Sunday, March 17, 2019
Please join us in celebrating St. Patrick Day – Coffee Hour on Sunday, March 17 after 9:00 AM and 11:15 AM in the Church Auditorium. See you there!
Outreach to Seniors
The parish has five senior homes within its boundaries. Those who live in these residences are brought communion on a regular basis. The parish is looking for more volunteers to bring the Eucharist to these residences. A police background check is necessary for all who visit the vulnerable. If interested please contact Sr. Gabriel at 416-534-4219
The Liturgical Season of Lent
Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019, marks the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent. The highest point of the Church’s year is the Easter Triduum (Holy Thursday evening through Easter Sunday) during which we recount the death and resurrection of Jesus the Lord. We prepare for this three-day period by the season of Lent, and prolong it for the great 50 days of the Easter Season. The celebration of Easter, of being reborn in the Risen Lord to a new life, will only have meaning to the degree that “we die to the old self.” Thus, the Church asks us to live this period of Lent, with Christ in the desert, as a period of forty days devoted to inward renewal through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Let us prayerfully consider before Lent how we might make the best use of this time to imitate the Lord in His dedication to the Father so that His resurrection may take deep root in our thoughts, words and actions throughout Lent and forever.
- Ash Wednesday Masses: 8:00 AM, 12:10 PM, and 7:00 PM in the Church
- Ash Wednesday Confessions: Following the 7:00 PM Mass until 9:00 PM
- Stations of the Cross: A great Lenten Spiritual Devotion held on Friday evenings during Lent at 7:00 PM., or after 7:00 PM Mass on the First and Last Friday of the month in the Church.
- Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast (one full meal, and two lighter meals a day with no eating between meals), and abstinence (no eating of meat). The law of abstinence obliges those 14 years of age and older, and the law of fast obliges all those from ages 18 through 59 years of age.
- Lenten Retreat: April 1, 2, and 3, 7:00 PM. This lent our Parish Lenten Retreat will be conducted by Rev. Joseph Schmer. Please mark your calendars to join in this time of Lenten Spiritual renewal.
- Lenten Reconciliation Services:
- Saturday, April 6 from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM. There will be several priests hearing Confessions.
- Good Friday, April 19, after 3:00 PM service commemorating the Passion of our Lord till 6:00 PM
- Private reconciliation every Saturday from 3:45 PM to 4:30 PM
The Church recommends that we observe not only Good Friday, but the other Fridays of Lent as days of abstinence, or that we perform some act of charity as an alternative – the choice is yours. Lenten penance should be external and social, as well as internal and individual.
The highest point in the Church’s year of prayer is the Easter Triduum of the dying and rising of the Lord Jesus. We prepare for this three-day period by the season of Lent, and prolong it for the great 50 days of the Easter season.
During the season of Lent, the parish will continue Eucharistic Adoration in the Centre Chapel. Please consider signing up for an hour of prayer each week to spend time with the Lord.
Theology and the Arts – 3 part presentation by Dr. Christina Labriola, Th.D.
