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 their celebration of Christ’s birth! The cleaning and baking during penitential Advent pays off now, and the feasting and carolling begin. The days from the Feast of the Nativity [...]

Tuesday, 8 December 7:30 am Low Mass 7:30 pm High Mass This feast is often misunderstood even by practising Catholics. It does not refer to Our Lady’s conceiving of Jesus by the Holy Ghost (the Annunciation) but, rather, to the sinless conception of Our Lady in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne, by Our [...]

Monday 2 November During the day, Requiem Masses will be offered for the benefit of the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Morning Masses: 7:20 am Low Mass 8:10 am Low Mass 8:45 am Low Mass Afternoon & Evening Masses 5:30 pm Low Mass 6:10 pm Low Mass 7:30 pm Solemn High Mass Note that it is [...]

September 29, Tuesday: Dedication of Saint Michael the Archangel. 7:30 pm October 2, Friday: First Friday. 7:30 pm 4, Sunday: External Solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary. 10:30 am 25, Sunday: Christ the King. 10:30 am November 1, Sunday:  All Saints. 10:30 am 2, Monday: All Souls. 7:30 pm 6, Friday: First Friday. 7:30 [...]

High Mass will be celebrated in honour of the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven, at 9:00 am Saturday 15 August. From the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus of Pope Pius XII, defining the dogma of the Assumption of Our Lady: ‘When this liturgical feast was being celebrated ever more widely and with [...]

On Thursday 6 August, the Feast of the Transfiguration, we recall when Moses, representing the Law, and Elias (Elijah), representing the Prophets—two men who had special visions of God—appear with Our Lord on Mount Tabor (St. Matthew 17, St. Mark 9, St. Luke 9). There, the Apostles see the Divine Uncreated Light shine forth from [...]

High Mass will be celebrated at 10:00 am on Wednesday 1 July, followed by a parish picnic on the lawn beside the church. The month of July is dedicated to the Most Precious Blood of the Redeemer. The Blood of Jesus is the fountain of salvation. Each drop that flowed from the wounds of the [...]

Sunday, 31 May 2009 The feast of Pentecost, otherwise known as ‘Whitsunday,’ is considered a sort of ‘birth’ and ‘baptism’ for the Church, which, filled with the Gifts of the Holy Ghost, now went out to spread the Gospel to the whole world.  The vestments on Whitsunday are red. The name ‘Whitsunday’ comes from ‘White [...]

Thursday, 21 May 2009. Mass Schedule: 7:30 am Low Mass and 7:30 pm High Mass. The 9:00 am Mass is cancelled on this day. The 40th day after Easter commemorates Christ’s Ascension into Heaven from Mount Olivet. After the Gospel is sung, the Paschal Candle, lit from the New Fire of the Easter Vigil, is [...]

There will be a High Mass this Friday, 1 May, for the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker (also First Friday) at 7:30 pm. Exposition, Sacred Heart devotions and a Holy Hour will follow until 10:00 pm.