This weekend, March 13, 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.
Courtyard Movies – Volunteer Meeting
We are having a meeting for anyone who would like to volunteer to help with this event. Past volunteers and new volunteers are encouraged to attend this meeting. The meeting will cover volunteer logistics and next steps.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 7:00-8pm, in the St. Peter’s Parish basement hall.
If you are unable to attend and would like to volunteer feel free to contact St. Peter’s Church via email at youngadult-youthmin@stpeterstoronto.ca or phone the parish office at 416 534-4219.
We look forward to seeing as many people as possible to make this event a success.
Thank you!
Latest Children’s Liturgy Worksheet
Worksheet for the week of: March 6, 2022
Worksheet Links
- Watch a video on the Gospel of St. Matthew (4:1-11): Link 1
- Video on Lent: Link 1
- Holy Kids, Lent Video: Link 1
- Coloring Page: Link 1
- Activity Sheet: Link 1
- Lent Word Search: Link 1
GREAT NEWS!
In addition to our in person meeting at the 11:15 am Mass, we will be hosting online Children’s Liturgy sessions once per month.
If you are interested in participating in the online meetings please send your email address to youngadult-youthmin@stpeterstoronto.ca to receive the class Zoom link.
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Bulletin for week of March 6, 2022
First Sunday of Lent March 6, 2022
Support our Lenten ShareLife Appeal
Our parish’s ShareLife Campaign is now underway. In this time of Lent, please reflect on the great needs of our brothers and sisters who are helped through your kind support of ShareLife.
Last year, ShareLife supporters like you enabled 21,000 people to receive affordable mental health care through family service agencies across the Archdiocese of Toronto, including our community.
Our parish goal for this year’s campaign is $42, 000. Please give generously on ShareLife Sunday, which is March 27.
Back to Life! Back to Reality: A 2022 Lenten Message from Fr. Michael
Lent 2022: Back to Life – Back to Reality!
“But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!” (1 Corinthians 15:57).
During these past few Sundays, leading up to the beginning of Lent 2022, the second reading at Mass has been taken from Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. In this early letter, from about the year 54 A.D., Saint Paul writes about some of the very basic realities of our Christian faith. As we hear proclaimed on this Sunday, the eighth in Ordinary Time, “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57), Saint Paul is reminding us what our faith is all about—what we are preparing during Lent to celebrate this coming Easter. The Christian faith is based in the reality that Christ truly entered into our world, really died and was raised from the dead in order that we, through baptism, might also be raised up with him in the flesh and truly share in His victory over death and come to eternal life with Him. Continue reading
Latest Children’s Liturgy Worksheet
Worksheet for the week of: February 27, 2022
Worksheet Links
- Watch a video on the Gospel of St. Luke (6:39-45): Link 1
- A Tree And It’s Fruit (Fill in the Blanks): Link 1
- A Tree and it’s Fruit Decoder: Link 1
- Coloring Page: Link 1
- Lenten Countdown Cross: Link 1
- Word Search: Link 1
GREAT NEWS!
In addition to our in person meeting at the 11:15 am Mass, we will be hosting online Children’s Liturgy sessions once per month.
If you are interested in participating in the online meetings please send your email address to youngadult-youthmin@stpeterstoronto.ca to receive the class Zoom link.
Latest Bulletin
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Bulletin for week of February 27, 2022
Praying for Peace in the Ukraine: Pope Francis Calls for Fasting and Prayer for the Ukraine on March 2, 2022, Ash Wednesday
The parishioners of Saint Peter’s Parish in Toronto join with our brothers and sisters around the world praying for peace in the Ukraine and for the safety of all of the people of the Ukraine.
Today, Pope Francis asked that all Catholics observe Wednesday, March 2, 2022—Ash Wednesday—as a day of prayer and fasting for peace. Pope Francis stated:
My heart aches greatly at the worsening situation in Ukraine. Despite the diplomatic efforts of the last two weeks, increasingly alarming scenarios are opening up. Like me, many people all over the world are feeling anguish and concern. Once again the peace of all is threatened by partisan interests. I would like to appeal to those politically responsible to examine their consciences seriously before God, who is the God of peace and not war; who is the Father of all, not just some, who wants us to be brothers [and sisters] and not enemies. I pray that all parties involved refrain from any action that would cause even more suffering to the people, destabilising coexistence between nations and bringing international law into dispute.
And now I would like to appeal to everyone, believers and non0-believers alike. Jesus taught us that the diabolical senselessness of violence is answered with God’s weapons , with prayer and fasting. I invite everyone to make next March 2, Ash Wednesday, a Day of Fasting for Peace. I encourage believers in a special way to dedicate themselves intensely to prayer and fasting on that day. May the Queen of Peace preserve the world from the madness of war.
Let us all pray for peace and observe Ash Wednesday- March 2, 2022—as a day of prayer and fasting for the peace.