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National Family and Life Week 2025
Every May, the Office of Formation for Discipleship spotlights family life ministry, including the start of the annual National Family and Life Week, from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Office for Family and Life.
The 2025 theme, drawn...
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Bible Camp 2025
Apr-07-2025 to Jul-11-2025 (09:00 AM to 03:00 PM)
St. Mary's Bible Camp - July 7 - 11, 2025
Our parish bible camp this summer will be held the week of July 7th to 11th from 9:00 a.m. to 12:45 p...
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Meet Albert
Jun-14-2025 to Dec-30-2026
Meet Albert - who works here at St. Mary's Church. Click to see some of Albert's misadventures and find out what he's been up to this year.
Made for M.E.R.C.Y. and...
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Parish Summer Camps in 2025
Its been double digits into the negative for weather in recent days, so the idea of a sunny and warm day at your parish with the sound of kids running around outside or singing on the inside may feel like...
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5 Tips in Riding the Back to School Momentum
The beginning of autumn evokes feelings of excitement, anticipation and new beginnings!
There is a shift in the air. Can you feel it? A crispness in the air suggests the end of summer is just around the corner. It is...
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Local Salesian Sister to Profess First Vows this Summer
Situated about 20-miles Southeast of the Delaware Water Gap, the popular American national recreation area on the Delaware River near the border of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a Catholic summer camp called Camp Auxilium welcomes children as they arrive...
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May 13-19 is National Family and Life Week
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) warmly invites the Catholic faithful to celebrate National Family and Life Week 2024 (NFLW), which will take place from May 13 to 19, 2024.
This year’s theme, “Love hopes...
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Time is of the Essence: Waste it Together!
In preparation for the Family Day holiday weekend in Ontario, Catholic children’s author and illustrator, Carissa Douglas, reflects on strengthening faith and family bonds by giving importance to spending unstructured time together. Carissa is one of...
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Altar Server Awards 2023
For 36 years, the Greater Toronto Area Serra Clubs have been recognizing the service and achievements of altar servers from parishes across the Archdiocese of Toronto through the annual Bishop’s Altar Server Awards for Service.
Each year, local...
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Helping Children Grow Closer to God
Anna Boyagoda, Director of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for the Archdiocese of Toronto, answers a few of the most common questions about the CGS ministry.
1. What is the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd?
The Catechesis of the...
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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (1 October 2023)
Indigenous Healing and Reconciliation Fund Special Collection this weekend
Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Toronto are invited to participate in this special collection to support the Indigenous Healing & Reconciliation Fund. The collection is a national grassroots effort to assist...
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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Praying for the Sick and Faithful Departed
If you or a family member is sick please let us know and we shall add their name to our prayer list which is posted in the gathering space of the church.
We...
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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (10 September 2023)
The Society of St. Vincent De Paul Annual Collection
Next weekend, September 16/ 17, 2023 it is the annual collection for The St. Vincent de Paul Society here in St. Mary’s Parish. We are able to support our...
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Around St. Mary's This Week (7 May 2023)
Today, we welcome Marco Busic to St. Mary’s. Marco is a seminarian and will be with us until the end of July. He is completing his third year of theology and entering his final year before...
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Archbishop Leo's Message for Catholic Education Week
Catholic Education Week 2023 takes place from April 30 – May 5. The theme for this year is: We are many, we are one.
Please see below a letter issued by Archbishop Francis Leo:
My dear friends,
Christus resurrexit...
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The Nativity of the Lord
Mass Schedule
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Saturday, December 31
5:00 p.m.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
6:00 p.m. until Midnight
Sunday, January 1 – Full Schedule
8:00 a.m., 10:00...
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22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
HOLY HOUR AND BENEDICTION
Friday, September 3
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Praying for the Sick and Faithful Departed
As the baptized we all share in the ministry of prayer. If you or a...
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Women and the 'New Normal'
Heather King is an award-winning memoirist, columnist and blogger with several books. She speaks nationwide, leads writing workshops and writes a weekly column on arts and culture for Angelus News, the archdiocesan newspaper of Los Angeles. For more, please...