Preparing for and Celebrating the Easter Triduum - March 28 – 30th, 2024
The Easter Triduum is the highpoint of our Church year. The word Triduum means three. For a Catholic there is really nothing more important than gathering with...
If you are an adult, baptized in the Catholic Church and would like to be Confirmed please contact Catherine Ecker (cecker@archtoronto.org or 705 728 2985 ext. 115) for details regarding preparation. Confirmation will be celebrated close to the...
Seasons of Hope
Bereavement Group to Begin
Our Lord assured us that those who mourn and blessed and they shall be comforted. Seasons of Hope helps us come together to share in God’s love.
Whether your...
The Ontario Institute for Catholic Education (ICE) brings together, works with, and assists organizations
that share responsibility for English Catholic education in their efforts to promote and maintain publicly-funded Catholic schools
animated by the Gospel and reflecting...
Monday, April 17th, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.
St. Mary’s Parish is honoured to host a Northern Regional Welcome Mass for our new Archbishop Francis Leo on Monday, April 17th, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. ...
Rest in Peace Deacon Ron MacLellan
Date of Birth: January 29, 1940
Ordinated a Permanent Deacon: June 1983
Date of Death: July 14, 2022
Deacon Ron MacLellan died on July 14, 2022. He was 82 years...
St. Mary's Refugee Sponsorship group is an interfaith Refugee resettlement group. We are working on 2 families at the present time. The first is a Family from Sudan - who are presently in Jordan. There is a Father, a Mother...
The New cross on the Bell Tower was installed on Saturday September 4,2021.
It will be blessed at the beginning of the 7 PM Mass on Wednesday September 8, 2021.
This is the Feast of the Birth of Mary...
“Guide our feet into the way of peace.” Luke 1.79
St. Mary’s Labyrinth
This Labyrinth was laid in 2011, and is modelled after the famous labyrinth
at the Chartres Cathedral, France laid in 1201.
A...
St. Mary's Parish and the Georgian Centre for Changemaking and Social Innovation are connecting Seniors with Students at Georgian College in order to battle Isolation these days. Part of this project is HomeFeast - being held on March 25th, from...
Mr. Doug Downey (Barrie - Springwater - Oro-Medonte)
doug.downey@pc.ola.org
Ms. Andrea Khanjin (Barrie - Innisfil)
andrea.khanjin@pc.ola.org
March 1, 2021
As you know the Provincial Government has announced that Simcoe-Muskoka will be returning...
The central observance of Holy Thursday is the ritual reenactment of the Last Supper at Mass. This event is celebrated at every Mass, as part of the Liturgy of the Eucharist, but it is specially commemorated on Holy Thursday. Except...
The annual Chrism Mass, at which Archbishop Francis Leo presides, typically takes place on the Tuesday of Holy Week. The Mass brings together hundreds of priests from throughout the archdiocese and provides them the opportunity to renew their priestly vows...
Archbishop Leo celebrated Mass at St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica with a full congregation. Palm Sunday commemorates the entrance of Christ into Jerusalem, during which palm branches were placed in his path, before his arrest on Holy Thursday and his...
The 34th Ordinandi Dinner was hosted by St. Augustine's Seminary and the six Serra Clubs in the Archdiocese of Toronto on Tuesday, March 19.
The Ordinandi Dinner honours the Transitional Deacons who study, pray, and reside at St...
The 2024 Ordinandi Youth Event took place on Tuesday, March 19. 850 youth from school boards across the archdiocese came together to pray, reflect and learn about the vocation stories of the 2024 ordinandi class and Sister Beata Victoria from...
Message to Priests for Holy Thursday 2024
Most Rev. Francis Leo
Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto
As Strings to a Harp
My dear Brother Priests,
May Jesus and Mary be in your hearts.
On this day, the eve...