Monthly Archive for December, 2008

Feast of the Epiphany

Evening High Mass at 7:30 pm, Tuesday 6 January. Note that there will me no 9:00 am Mass on this day.
On this great feast day, the Church celebrates three epiphania—‘showings forth’—of Our Lord:
Hodie caelesti sponso juncta est Ecclesia, quoniam in Jordane lavit Christus ejus crimina: currunt cum muneribus magi ad regales nuptias, et ex aqua [...]

First Friday & First Saturday

7:30 pm First Friday High Mass, 2 January
9:00 am First Saturday Low Mass and Marian Devotions, with Exposition and Benediction, 3 January.

New Year’s Day schedule

8:00 am Low Mass
10:30 am High Mass
Abbotsford: 4:30 pm Low Mass at Saint Ann’s, 33333 Mayfair Avenue.
Please note that the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops maintains January 1st as a holy day of obligation in accordance with canon 1246 §1 of the Code of Canon Law. As on a Sunday, ‘the faithful are obliged to [...]

Masses, 28 December 2008 – 3 January 2009

Sunday 28 December
Sunday after Christmas
8:00: In reparation for sacrileges against the Blessed Sacrament
10:30: Pro populo
4:30: Souls in Purgatory
Monday 29 December
5th day in Nativity Octave
(Commemoration of Saint Thomas à Becket, Bishop & Martyr)
7:30 am: RIP David Akhurst
7:30 pm: RIP Felix Bongiorno
Tuesday 20 December
6th day in Nativity Octave
7:30 am: RIP Helen Bongiorno
9:00 am: RIP Father Dan [...]

Wishing you a joyous and blessed Christmas

Virgo Dei Genitrix, quem totus non capit orbis, in tua se clausit viscera factus homo.
O Virgin, Mother of God, He whom the whold world cannot contain, enclosed Himself within thy womb, and became man.

Epiphany house blessings

Homes are traditionally blessed during the Octave of Epiphany (6–13 January). Those of you who haven’t had your homes blessed yet should arrange to do so. The blessing is done with exorcised Epiphany Holy Water, blessed chalk, and exorcised incense (Frankincense with Myrrh). Since, for the most part, we all live quite a distance from [...]

New Year’s Eve Adoration

Why not begin the new year with Our Lord? Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will take place New Year’s Eve beginning after the 7:30 pm Mass, ending with Benediction at Midnight. Please sign-up at the entrance for adoration times, as we need to ensure that someone (preferably at least 2 persons) is present for each [...]

The Twelve Days of Christmas

When the secular world starts putting its ‘holiday’ things away, and as shopping malls stop blaring ‘Here Comes Santa Claus’, Catholics should just be getting started! The cleaning and baking during penitential Advent pays off now, and the feasting and carolling begin. The days from the Feast of the Nativity to the Epiphany are known [...]

Masses, 21–27 December 2008

Sunday 21 December
4th Sunday of Advent
8:00: Ann O’Brien
10:30: Pro populo
4:30: RIP I. Michael
Monday 22 December
Feria
7:30 am: In Reparation for sacrileges against the Holy Eucharist
7:30 pm: RIP departed VTMS members and Holy Family parishioners
Tuesday 23 December
Feria
7:30 am: Living VTMS members and Holy Family parishioners
9:00 am: RIP Charles Liang
Wednesday 24 December
Vigil of the Nativity (Christmas Eve)
7:30 [...]

Christmas Mass schedule

12:00 am Midnight Mass
8:00 am Mass at Dawn (Low Mass)
10:30 am Mass during the Day (High Mass)
These services all take place at Holy Family, Vancouver.
Note that there is no Mass in Abbotsford on Christmas Day.

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