We are beginning our Children’s Liturgy this Sunday, September 18th at the 9:30 a.m. Mass. We are also starting our Children’s Choir again. If you wish your child to join, please see Carol Martin or give your child’s name to the parish office. The first rehearsal will be after the 9:30 a.m. Mass, Sunday, September 18th! Let’s get back into the swing of things! Call the parish office: 905-354-7451.
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The meetings of the Diocesan Separated and Divorced Healing Ministry will resume Monday, September 12th, 2022.
The Separated and Divorced support group meets the second and fourth Monday of the month, 7-9 p.m. at Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre, 7020 Stanley Avenue, Niagara Falls. Meetings are also held virtually. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Shrine, 4706 Miller Road, Port Colborne welcomes Bishop Bergie on Thursday, September 8, 2022, the Feast of the Nativity of Mary. The rosary will be prayed at 7:00 p.m. and Bishop Bergie will celebrate Mass at 7:30 p.m. – EVERYONE IS WELCOME. The Shrine operates May to October. Every Thursday at 7:00 p.m., in the Chapel, the Rosary is recited followed by the celebration of Holy Mass. For more information please call Shelley Tamas, 905-714-7677 or visit www.rosaryshrineniagara.com.
Safari Niagara in Stevensville: Sunday, September 11, from 12 noon to 5 p.m.: special fare of $10 per person; mention your church name at time of admission and $2 will go to your parish.
As we prepare to welcome Pope Francis to Canada, we invite Catholics from across the country to participate in this historic journey in a number of different ways. In addition to television coverage of papal events, visit www.papalvisit.ca or www.visitepapale.ca to access more than 10 livestream links of coverage featuring interpretation in many languages (including Indigenous languages), as well as livestream links from Vatican TV including commentary.
Salt & Light Catholic Media Foundation has a dedicated site for information and broadcast details for the papal visit - https://slmedia.org/popeincanada (English) or https://slmedia.org/fr/papeaucanada (French). Novalis has also produced a digital resource that includes texts for all the liturgies presided by Pope Francis, prayers as well as reflections on the significance of the Papal Visit. To download the resource, visit: livingwithchrist.ca (English) or prionseneglise.ca (French). We invite you to pray for the Holy Father and all those involved in this historic journey of healing, reconciliation and hope. Thank you for your continued co-operation and support. Congratulations to the Reverend Mr. David Scott who was ordained to the diaconate Saturday, June 18 by the Most Reverend Gerard Bergie, D.D., bishop of the diocese of Saint Catharines. May God bless David in his new ministry here in our diocese and particularly at St. Patrick's, and may God bless his wife Maggie, and all of the O’Brien and Scott families.  Attached below are a series of leaflets from the Curia and the Steering Committee for the Canonization of Blessed Titus Brandsma about the life, spirituality, and thought of Titus.
Blessed Titus Brandsma, of the Order of Carmelites, who died in the concentration campo at Dachau 26 July 1942, beatified in 1985, is to be canonized May 15, 2020.
More about this man to be added to the canon of saints can be found at the website of the Order of Carmelites: ocarm.org/en/canonization-of-blessed-titus-brandsma The annual message from the Most Reverend Gerard Bergie, D.D., bishop of the diocese of Saint Catharines, is available below. 
The Vineyard Memorial Edition 2022 as well as The Vineyard Lenten Edition are posted on the Diocesan website.
Memorial Edition: http://saintcd.com/vineyard Lenten Edition: http://saintcd.com/diocesan-directory/archived-vineyard/5 |
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