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Holy Thursday - Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Frank Cardinal Leo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto presided at Holy Thursday Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica. Holy Thursday marks the beginning of the Paschal Triduum, the three day period that commemorates the Passion, Death and Resurrection of...
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More than 450 Priests Gather for Annual Chrism Mass
On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, Frank Cardinal Leo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto, celebrated the annual Chrism Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica. This prayerful moment during Holy Week brought together more than 450 priests serving in the Archdiocese...
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Holy Week April 13, 2025
As We Celebrate Holy Week In Our Parish
Dear Parishioners:
We begin the holiest of weeks. We receive our palms to remember Jesus entering the City of Jerusalem for the last time. We gather around the altar to...
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Lent - the Place of our Life. March 9, 2025
I remember listening to a gentleman talk about his life. He told about the success of his business, the disappointment in his marriage, that his last child had moved out, and that he was about to turn 50 years old...
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11,476 Years of Marriage Under One Roof – Marriage Sunday Celebration
On February 9, 2025, the Archdiocese of Toronto celebrated Marriage Sunday, recognizing married couples throughout the archdiocese who have demonstrated a beautiful witness of love and fidelity. At the local level, many parishes have special initiatives to honour married couples...
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Celebrate the Year of Jubilee and Elevation of Cardinal Leo
Regional Eucharistic Celebrations with Cardinal Leo & Auxiliary Bishops
All are welcome to attend Regional Masses that will be held throughout the Archdiocese of Toronto in the coming days.
There will be two groups of Masses – one Mass in...
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2025 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (WPCU) is a global ecumenical observance, which in the northern hemisphere is held annually from January 18 to 25. During this time, Christians of all denominations and ecclesial communities are invited to pray...
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Making Christ Manifest to all the World January 5, 2025
We wish you all a Happy & Healthy 2025!
Father Felix, Father Shyju, & Deacon Miguel
This Sunday we celebrate the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord. The word epiphany comes from the Greek epiphainen, a verb that means...
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Prayer for the Family December 29, 2024
Lord God, from You every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. Father, you are love and life. Through Your Son, Jesus Christ, born of woman, and through the Holy Spirit, the fountain of divine charity...
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Making Room for Jesus December 22, 2024
As Christmas fast approaches and Advent is drawing to a close, let us remind ourselves of the importance of this liturgical season. Advent is a time of preparation for the coming of Christ at Christmas as well as His final...
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Rejoicing amidst the Darkness December 15, 2024
“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Indeed, the Lord is near.” These are the words proclaimed in the entrance antiphon of Mass for Gaudete Sunday this week. It urges us to constantly rejoice in the...
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Advent is…a wreath of evergreens and light!
The Advent wreath is a prominent symbol of the Advent season and is used in our churches and our homes as a way to prayerfully count the four weeks of the liturgical season. It consists of a wreath made...
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Advent is ‘Waiting’ December 1, 2024
‘Waiting’ is a word very familiar to all of us. We have the experience of waiting in our day-to-day events of life. I read in one of the health magazines, if we live to be...
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Thirsty Thursdays: Quench Your Thirst at the Source
The desire of every human heart is for communion. And as we strive to fulfill this desire, often we are found wanting, until we go to the source: Jesus.
With this in mind, in 2014, the Sisters of Life began...