You are invited to join our parish's Advent-Christmas Bible study, beginning next Sunday, December 3rd. We will meet on Sundays immediately following Holy Mass, from 11:15am-12:15pm. Children are welcome to stay. All you need is a Bible... and a desire to grow in your knowledge and love of Jesus Christ as we prepare for His coming at Christmas.
Please click here to sign up online for the many different committees, groups, apostolates and ministries that serve our parish and community. We need your God-given gifts to help serve Our Lord and our neighbour!
Father would like to offer parishioners and visitors reminders regarding receiving Our Eucharistic Lord in Holy Communion. Please click here for more information.
Thanks to the yeoman's work of Paul O'Leary, Frank Zack, and so many others on the fundraising, finance and building committees, construction work will begin this month at the site of the new parish church. Please keep praying for the success of this project, as we work to build a beautiful, fitting, and practical space for the worship of the Triune God, the service of our neighbor, and the celebration of our community.
Click here to read two more articles about the new church from around the Internet, one from Aleteia and one from Deacon Greg Kandra's "The Deacon's Bench".
The Parish has begun using a new communications tool, Flocknote, which enables easier communication via email and text message. All parishioners are asked to check their junk mail folders to ensure that they're still receiving parish emails. Also, if possible, please click "My Info" at the bottom of the email and add your cellular number so that you can receive text messages.
Click here to read two articles written about the impending construction of our new church: one in the Catholic Register (Toronto Archdiocesan newspaper), and one on the Strathmore Now website.
Please remember to begin praying the Divine Mercy Novena on Good Friday in preparation for celebrating Divine Mercy Sunday on April 16th. Click here for the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Novena prayers.
All parishioners and families are invited to pray novenas to St. Joseph this month for his powerful intercession to help us begin building our new parish church in 2023.
Starting today, parishioners will be meeting three Fridays during Lent to share meatless soups together at 6:00pm, followed by praying the Stations of the Cross together at 7:00pm. All are welcome to join us in Holy Cross Collegiate (north doors).
Please click here for more information about the Horizons of Hope sessions offered by the Diocese regarding physician-assisted suicide (euthanasia), end-of-life issues, and palliative care.
Today we celebrate the nativity of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and King. May you and your family have a blessed Christmas season, celebrating the Babe of Bethlehem.
Come and celebrate the Feast of St John Paul II with Bishop William McGrattan at St. Mary's Cathedral at 9am on Saturday, October 22nd followed by the veneration of the 1st class relic (blood) of St John Paul II until 2pm. This has been organized with the help of St. Francis Xavier Chaplaincy, and the Seeds of the Word (nuns and male religious), and Sacred Heart Parish. All families and parishioners are cordially invited to join us at the Cathedral for this day of prayer and veneration. Please seek the intercession of St John Paul II for our families, the priesthood, and religious vocations.
Congratulations and prayers go out to the two parish couples who were recently joined in the bonds of Holy Matrimony: Christopher and Sarah (nee McKinnon) Everett, and Christopher and Kristina (nee de Boer) O'Leary. May God bless their lives together and grant them bountiful graces.
A reminder that all parishioners are invited to join us in our annual Corpus Christi procession this Sunday, immediately following Holy Mass. Our Lord will walk the streets of Strathmore. After the procession the CWL and Knights invite all to join us for our parish BBQ, which will be followed by children's games and a family softball game.
On Holy Thursday we begin the Divine Mercy Chaplet novena in preparation for the Solemnity of Divine Mercy on Sunday, April 24th. All parishioners and families are invited to join in praying the novena.