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THE WORD BECAME FLESH - HOPE IS BORN December 22, 2024On Christmas Day we celebrate the appearance on earth of God in our human nature. This is the “miracle of the Incarnation”. For by becoming man, Jesus did not in any way cease to...Posted: Dec-17-2024 -
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST’S MISSION December 15, 2024Last Sunday we heard the voice of John the Baptist calling the people to repentance in preparation for the coming of the Christ. Today we hear some of the teaching that he gave in answer to the questions various groups...Posted: Dec-11-2024 -
THE VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS December 8, 2024Today the Gospel introduces the figure of St. John the Baptist “proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins”. St. Luke, from whose Gospel we will be reading during this...Posted: Dec-04-2024
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BE ALERT! December 1, 2024Our Lord’s urgent message in today’s Advent Sunday Gospel would have had a very special place in the minds of our Catholic forebears only a few hundred years ago in a time of persecution in Elizabethan...Posted: Nov-27-2024
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Journey through Advent – First Sunday of Advent 2024Watch the Video 1 December 2024 – First Sunday of Advent – Year C Your redemption is drawing near. (Luke 21:25-28, 34-36) The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops presents Journey through Advent with the Most Rev. Frank...Posted: Nov-26-2024 -
CHRIST THE KING November 24, 2024The Last Sunday of the Church’s Year corresponds to the End of Time. In the Creed we proclaim that "He (Christ) will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and His kingdom will have...Posted: Nov-20-2024 -
THE LAST TIMES—WHEN WILL THEY COME? November 17, 2024There’s almost a feeling of “unreality” about Our Lord’s sayings concerning the End Times of the world. Maybe we don’t want to listen too closely to those words of His...Posted: Nov-13-2024 -
THE WIDOW’S MITE November 10, 2024The value of something is not necessarily the same as its price. In the gospel Our Lord impresses upon us the truth that the real value of the widow’s offering to the...Posted: Nov-07-2024 -
St. Michael Award Winner Western Region 2024This year, Archbishop Francis Leo started the St. Michael award to recognize outstanding service in parish life, education, social outreach or health care. We are VERY pleased to announce that our own Melanie Nazareth, was...Posted: Oct-30-2024 -
PRAYING FOR OUR BELOVED DEPARTED November 3, 2024Throughout the month of November, which began with the great celebration of what we all hope one day to be in heaven—Saints—, we continue with prayer on behalf of those souls who are now between death and...Posted: Oct-30-2024
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WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM TODAY’S GOSPEL? October 27, 2024First, of the three Evangelists who recount this miracle, St. Mark alone tells us the blind man’s name: “Bartimaeus” (that is Son of Timaeus). St. Mark usually tells us someone’s name in the course...Posted: Oct-24-2024
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Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the year October 20, 2024It is part of our Catholic Faith that we are to have a living relationship with the saints. Today, we meet the Sons of Zebedee, Saints James and John. Christ had called them to follow Him...Posted: Oct-19-2024
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THE LAST SUPPER ….October 13, 2024is surely one of the scenes most cherished by Christians of all denominations. You might have an image of the Last Supper in your dining room. For us Catholics it is the occasion on which Our Lord instituted the Holy...Posted: Oct-09-2024
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IN TODAY’S GOSPEL….October 6, 2024Our Lord Jesus Christ shows that what Moses taught about divorce was permitted only because man was so hard-hearted. What Christ offers instead is a more perfect way, a new heart, a new life...Posted: Oct-02-2024
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THE HOLY ARCHANGELS September 29, 2024You will have noticed how in the translation of the Sanctus in the Mass, reference is made to the Lord God of Hosts. This of course is a reference to the vision of the Prophet Ezekiel, where he sees Almighty...Posted: Sep-29-2024
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WELCOME, LORD! September 22, 2024Last week we heard in the Gospel how Our Lord began to prepare His Apostles for the terrible death of the Cross He was to endure. We heard then how Peter spoke up indignantly that this must not happen, and...Posted: Sep-18-2024
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WHAT KIND OF MESSIAH IS HE? September 15, 2024Our Lord had not only to overcome the misunderstanding of His followers, as we heard a few weeks ago when many of His disciples refused to accept His teaching about receiving His flesh and blood in Holy Communion. In today...Posted: Sep-11-2024
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THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL & CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCYIn the Epistle of St James, we read that faith without work is a dead thing. As Catholics, we believe that good works performed in a state of grace win more merit for us in the sight of God. This...Posted: Sep-05-2024
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SAINT PAUL June 30, 2024Sunday after Sunday we listen to St Paul’s epistles. It is over two thousand years since the birth of St. Paul in Tarsus, in modern-day eastern Turkey. Paul, originally called Saul, was a...Posted: Jun-26-2024 -
WHO IS THIS? June 23, 2024In the Gospel we hear that once when Our Lord and the Apostles were crossing the Lake of Gennesaret, a great storm blew up while Our Lord was asleep in the boat. The boat was buffeted by wind and waves...Posted: Jun-19-2024
