Please Welcome the Parish’s Youth Minister – Ms. Alessya D’Anna

As a part of the Family of Faith Campaign now taking part in the Archdiocese of Toronto, money has been set aside to help poorer parishes hire a youth minister. Our own parish has received a subsidy from the Archdiocese to hire a youth minister who can animate activities for young people in our parish. This subsidy has made possible the hiring of a long-time parishioner Ms. Alessya D’Anna as a part-time youth and young adults minister. Alessya has worked for many years as the receptionist in the Paulist Centre. She knows the parish well and has many ideas for different ways of inviting young people in the parish to feel welcome and to be a part of our community. In the coming year she will bring us many exciting projects. If you think there are ideas you would like to share with her please do so by calling the office and leaving her a message. She will soon have a parish e-mail address at which you may contact her directly. Stay tuned!!!!

Thanksgiving Food-Drive for the Good Shepherd Mission

Thanksgiving-food-driveThe Good Shepherd Mission in Toronto looks after many of the city’s homeless and helps them find a warm meal all year round. Each year they rely on the generosity of Torontonians who are able to donate food to make their mission possible. This year the parish will be sponsoring a Thanksgiving Food Drive to support the Good Shepherd Mission. Please consider donating canned tuna, canned meat, canned fruit or vegetables, canned soups and stews, peanut butter, jam, cereal teabags, instant coffee, cookies, rice, and crackers. PLEASE NO FRESH FRUIT OR VEGETABLES OR FROZEN FOOD. Some parishes decorate their sanctuaries with flowers on the Thanksgiving weekend. Let us decorate ours with food to be offered to those in need!

Fall Fair Help Needed

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Portuguese group is requesting for extra volunteers to help set-up, clean-up and generally help the Portuguese Table for this year’s Fall Fair. For those who can also donate food can bring it directly to the Fall Fair Portuguese table. Thank you!

Baked Goods for the Fall Fair

We need baked goods for this year’s Fall Fair. For those who can donate baked goods please bring them directly to the Fall Fair baked table. Thank you in advance for your contribution.

 Catholic Family Services of Toronto Walk-in Services

Our professional counselling staff is trained to offer Walk-In services to clients who have an urgent need to speak with a counsellor. The single-session consultation is aimed at helping clients identify and hone-in on plans that will provide them with help for their presenting concern. Clients who are interested in accessing services can:

(1) choose to call one of our branches at 416-921-1163 (Central) or 416-222-0048 (North) and book a single-session appointment, OR

(2) drop-in at our North Office on Thursdays between 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For additional information on the range of services we offer, please visit our website at: http://www.cfstoronto.com/

Fall Fair 2015!

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St. Peter’s Fall Fair is our annual get together and fund-raising event.

It’s part flea market, part hidden treasure hunt, and a BIG part food festival! We are a multicultural parish and the foods on offer come from our amazing Italian, Portuguese, Filipino, Korean, and German parishioners… heck the whole world is on offer!

We are always open to donation, but please no junk. This is our big fundraiser for the year, and it costs us money to throw out leftover stuff. Think of the nice things you don’t need any longer and consider donating them to the St. Peter’s Fall Fair.

And we always need volunteers to handle everything from the bake sale to running the cash.

Fall Fair Schedule:
Saturday, October 3 – 12 Noon – 7 PM
Sunday, October 4 – 10 AM – 8 PM

 

Why Did Jesus Come to Be With Us?

01ac8abace127610f4fb61f3fb3246d6One of the truly amazing and humbling things about being a priest is the types of different intimate and sacred moments that people will invite a priest to be a part of because through the Sacraments the priest makes Christ present at some of life’s most important times. Perhaps the most significant time that a priest can be asked to be a part of a person’s life is at their bedside when they are sick or dying. Often, with an individual’s closest loved ones, a priest is among the last people that a sick individual will deal with as part of their earthly pilgrimage. In these moments a priest helps to make Christ present here on earth to one who is about to be present with God face to face for all eternity. Continue reading