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DON’T GIVE UP PRAYING OCTOBER 19, 2025Our Lord gives a very graphic image of persistence in prayer in the Gospel today: He talks about a woman with a claim against her neighbour who nags and hectors away until she gets what she wants from an unjust...Posted: Oct-15-2025 -
GIVING THANKS October 12, 2025In today’s gospel, only one leper out of ten, a foreigner at that, came back to thank Our Lord for healing him. What is the proportion of thanksgiving in your prayers compared with requests...Posted: Oct-08-2025
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" FAITH " October 5, 2025The Apostles ask Our Lord to “increase our faith!” His reply is “if you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could tell a tree to uproot itself and be planted in the sea, and...Posted: Oct-01-2025
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THE HOLY ARCHANGELS September 28, 2025On Monday we will be celebrating the Feast of the Holy Archangels and on 2nd October we keep the Feast of the Guardian Angels. We honour the Archangel Raphael, who represents the healing power of God...Posted: Sep-24-2025
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THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS September 14, 2025It is easy, when you live in a country which is at least Christian in its cultural roots, to take the sign of the Cross for granted. Most of us see several crosses per day, on...Posted: Sep-12-2025 -
WHAT DOES IT COST TO BE A TRUE FOLLOWER OF OUR LORD? September 7, 2025Today's Gospel contains one of our Lord’s “hard” teachings. Even by Our Lord’s own account, being His follower is not easy. There are choices to be made, and consequences to be taken on...Posted: Sep-03-2025
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Close to 4,000 Join Archdiocesan Jubilee Pilgrimage to Martyrs’ ShrineClose to 4,000 Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Toronto and beyond came together on August 24, 2025 at the Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, Ontario for our Year of Jubilee pilgrimage. Many pilgrims started the day as early as...Posted: Aug-25-2025 -
Men & Women Retreat. Christ Enlightens His Disciples: An Exploration of St. Matthew's Gospel.Men & Women Ignatian Retreat: In November, the Church will begin to read Matthew’s Gospel at Sunday Mass. This retreat will explore themes of discipleship in the Sermon on the Mount and other passages in Matthew’s...Oct-17-2025 to Oct-19-2025 (06:30 PM to 01:00 PM) -
THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL June 29, 2025We celebrate today a particular feast of the Roman Church. Peter, chosen by Christ to be the First among the Apostles; and Paul, chosen by Christ ‘as one born out of due time’, because he encountered Our Lord...Posted: Jun-25-2025 -
CORPUS CHRISTI June 22, 2025Today is Corpus Christi Sunday. Since Holy Thursday was too close to the sufferings of Our Lord to offer any but the briefest celebration of such a momentous gift as the Eucharist, the Church took the...Posted: Jun-18-2025
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OUR GOD WHO IS LIGHT, LIFE AND LOVE June 15, 2025Immediately after Pentecost we celebrate the central mystery of our faith: the One, Almighty God in three equal and undivided, yet distinct Persons. We call God the “Holy Trinity” to express this truth which Our Lord taught us...Posted: Jun-11-2025 -
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE “SOUL OF THE CHURCH” June 8, 2025We call today’s feast the “Birthday of the Church” because the outpouring of the Holy Spirit marked the beginning of the Apostles’ mission to the world, a mission which the Church on...Posted: Jun-04-2025 -
THE ASCENSION June 1, 2025The Ascension of Our Lord to the right side of His Father in heaven, is the climax of His earthly existence. After His resurrection He said to Mary Magdalene, ‘I have not yet ascended to My Father.’ Now...Posted: May-28-2025 -
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER May 25, 2025The season of Eastertide lasts for eight weeks, during which time we celebrate the resurrection, the appearances of the Risen Lord to the disciples, and His preparing them for His Ascension and for the Coming of the Holy Spirit. So...Posted: May-21-2025
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CITIZENS OF THIS WORLD - AND THE NEXT May 18, 2025In today’s Gospel reading from the Last Supper discourse in St. John, Our Lord gives us a new commandment: “Love one another as I have loved you”. As Catholics we know that...Posted: May-15-2025
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Newly Initiated Catholics Gather at St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica for MassOn Sunday, May 11, 2025, Bishop John Boissonneau celebrated Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica with the newest Catholics from across the archdiocese. Several hundreds of newly initiated Catholics attended the archdiocese's 2025 Neophyte Mass along with...Posted: May-13-2025 -
Archdiocese of Toronto Celebrates the Ordination of Three PriestsOn Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 10 a.m., the His Excellency John A. Boissonneau, Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, ordained three transitional deacons, Deacon James Cyfko, Deacon Alvin Joys, and Deacon Jesús Fidel Añón with the Sacrament of Holy Orders...Posted: May-10-2025 -
Feast of Divine Mercy at Divine Retreat Centre TorontoThe Divine Retreat Centre Toronto is a religious and clerical society. The pre-eminent purpose of the Vincentian Congregation is the evangelization of the poor. Through leading retreats, preaching, outreach ministries and doing missionary work through charitable social and educational...Posted: May-09-2025 -
WHAT MAKES A SHEPHERD “GOOD”? May 11, 2025In the Gospel of the Fourth Sunday of Eastertide each year we hear a passage from the tenth chapter of St. John’s Gospel in which Our Lord speaks to us about Himself as the...Posted: May-08-2025
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THE RISEN SAVIOUR'S GIFT OF PEACE! May 4, 2025I am sure you have noticed the frequency with which, after His Resurrection, Our Lord greets His disciples with those simple words: “Peace be with you”. They are words which also come to us in one form or...Posted: Apr-30-2025
