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Catechist Formation Program Holds Closing Retreat in Scarborough
On June 22, 2024, participants of the 2023-24 Archdiocese of Toronto Catechist Formation Program (ACFP) gathered at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Scarborough for their closing retreat.
The Most Reverend Francis Leo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto celebrated Mass...
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SAINT PAUL June 30, 2024
Sunday 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...
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WHO IS THIS? June 23, 2024
In 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...
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TRINITY SUNDAY May 26, 2024
The Feast of Pentecost, which we celebrated last week, brought to a conclusion the yearly cycle of the Paschal Mystery, in which we commemorate: the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord; His Glorification in Heaven; and His Gift of...
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THE FEAST OF PENTECOST OR WHIT SUNDAY May 19, 2024
The Feast of Pentecost, whose name means the ‘fiftieth day’, is the last day and concluding feast of Eastertide. The entire season of Easter, or Paschaltide, is a single celebration of fifty days, being the high point of...
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CHRIST’S GLORY—OUR HOPE May 12, 2024
It seems at first that as our Lord is taken from the Apostles’ sight, the Ascension is the end of His closeness to them. Might it perhaps have seemed to them rather like hearing that a loved one, whose...
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EASTERTIDE AND OUR LADY May 5, 2024
There is a beautiful link between the season of Eastertide and Our Lady, said Cardinal Newman.
The month of May virtually always falls entirely within Eastertide, and ushers in the summer with its early promise of...
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EVANGELIUM VITAE April 28, 2024
To the Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Men and Women Religious,
Lay Faithful, and all People of Good Will
on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life.
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EVANGELIUM VITAE
To the Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Men and Women Religious, Lay Faithful, and all People of Good Will
on the Value...
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FATHER! SAVE ME FROM MY SUFFERINGS
As we enter the final part of Lent, known as, “Passiontide”, in today’s passage from St. John’s Gospel we hear Our Lord’s prayer to His Father to be...
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SPE SALVI—SAVED BY HOPE March 3, 2024
Benedict XVI wrote an encyclical letter entitled “Saved by Hope”, in 2007. He reminded us that of the three great theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity, Hope is probably the least understood nowadays. Benedict saw the problem in...
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A SPIRITUAL BATTLE FOR JESUS
On the First Sunday of Lent, we hear each year one of the Gospel accounts of Our Lord’s temptations in the Wilderness. This year we hear that of St. Mark. St. Mark’s is the shortest Gospel...
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University of Dayton Formation Courses Available
As part of an ongoing partnership with University of Dayton in Ohio, the Archdiocese of Toronto is pleased to inform you that a new cycle of online courses offered by the university's Virtual Learning Community for Faith Formation is...
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Registration Open for New Cycle of Formation Courses
In partnership with the University of Dayton in Ohio, the Archdiocese of Toronto is once again offering a discounted rate for the upcoming cycle of online courses and seminars offered by the Virtual Learning Community for Faith Formation at...
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OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE!
Today, the last Sunday of the liturgical year, we are celebrating the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.
We know from the Gospels that Jesus refused the title of king when it was meant...