Holy Family parishioner Sarah Bates reports on Colleen Hammond’s recent visit to Holy Family Parish: Women of all ages were treated to high tea and a talk by EWTN’s Colleen Hammond on the unique beauty and dignity of women at Holy Family Parish on May 11. The day began with the recitation of the Rosary [...]

During the 10:30 a.m. High Mass at Holy Family on Sunday, May 5, a number of altar servers were enrolled in the Archconfraternity of St. Stephen. The Archconfraternity is an altar server guild that was originally formed in March 1905 by Fr. Hamilton MacDonald, chaplain to the Sacred Heart Convent, Hammersmith, England, by permission of the [...]

Feast of St. Joseph the Worker A High Mass will be offered at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1, in honour of St. Joseph the Worker. Book of Revelation class This course on the Book of Revelation, “Thy Kingdom Come,”  by Catholic apologist Jeff Cavins, is being presented with commentary from Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP, at [...]

A Study of the Book of Revelation: “Thy Kingdom Come” This course on the Book of Revelation by Jeff Cavins, a Catholic apologist, is being presented with commentary from Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP, at Holy Family Parish every Saturday until June 22 (except for May 4). Sessions run from 10 a.m. to 12 noon (following [...]

Holy Family parishioner Clayton Long has posted more photos of the Solemn High Mass of Easter Sunday at Holy Family Church. Please click here to view the complete set on his website.

Solemn High Mass was offered at Holy Family on Easter Sunday by Fr. Daniel Geddes, FSSP (celebrant), Fr. Gregory Pendergraft, FSSP (deacon), and Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP (subdeacon). Holy Family parishioner Clayton Long has posted photos of the Mass on his website. Please click here to see the set from which the following were taken.

Photos of Fr. McDonnell’s first Mass at Holy Family are here at Momentum Veritatis and here on Picassa.

First Mass following ordination, St. Francis Chapel, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Our very own Subdeacon Anthony Uy, will be ordained a Deacon on March 17th, 2012, in Lincoln, Nebraska, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. Let’s keep him in our prayers as he prepares for his big day! For more information on our seminary, go to www.fsspolgs.org. (In the [...]

Parishioner Benjamin Laggui has made available photographs of the Holy Family pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 2010, led by Father Deprey. The full set can be viewed here. This year, Father Deprey will lead a pilgrimage to Fatima, Spain and Lourdes, 2–14 October. For more details or to reserve a space, please contact the [...]

Photographs of our recent procession on the external solemnity of Corpus Christi, Sunday 26 June, 2011. At the altar is one of our seminarians, Brian McDonnell, who was recently ordained to the Diaconate. Please keep him in your prayers as he prepares to be ordained as a Priest next year.

On 28 December 2010, Archbishop Miller visited Holy Family to perform the ceremony of consecration of the altar stone for our new High Altar. 1. Archbishop Miller, flanked by Father Geddes and Father Deprey, approaches the new High Altar at the beginning of the ceremony. 2. Archbishop Miller preaching at the new lectern. 3. Blessing [...]

In the latest stage of renovations of the sanctuary at Holy Family parish, the crucifix that previously was located directly over the high altar has been moved and hung above the sanctuary, and in its previous position has been hung a new painting of the Holy Family by Michal Janek, and gilt has been applied [...]

Benjamin Laggui has uploaded a slide show of photographs of Father Huang’s first Mass in Vancouver (13 June 2010). Mr Laggui has a fine eye for dramatic moments of the liturgy, and his photos are well worth looking at.

This photograph from Father Huang’s ordination in Nebraska, 22 May 2010, is especially moving for long-time members of the traditional Mass community in Vancouver. Father Charles Ryan, former pastor of this community, performs the imposition of hands on Father Huang’s head during the ordination service. Following the imposition of hands by Bishop Bruskewitz, all the [...]

On Sunday 13 June, our recently ordained seminarian Father Garrick Huang returned to his hometown to celebrate his first Mass in Vancouver before heading to his posting at the FSSP parish in Ottawa. We are pleased to be able to share a selection of photographs of this joyous occasion, taken by Clayton Richard Long.

On Sunday 6 June, Holy Family parish celebrated the external solemnity of Corpus Christi (the actual feast was on the preceding Thursday), with a traditional procession of the Blessed Sacrament, stopping at exterior altars along the route to adore the Sacrament of our salvation. 1. The monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament processes toward the last [...]