Please note that there will be only one Mass on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. On Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, the divine office of Tenebrae will be prayed at 7:30 am. This special service of Holy Week combines the offices of Matins and Lauds, and is composed of psalms interspersed with mournful [...]
The Dogmas and Titles of Our Lady A series of talks presented by Father Elias Mary Mills of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate: The Immaculate Conception The Divine Maternity Perpetual Virginity The Assumption Co-redemptrix and Universal Mediatrix of Grace Schedule Sunday, 3 April. Father Elias will preach at both Masses. Monday–Thursday, 4–7 April. Morning [...]
On Fridays during Lent, beginning 11 March, we will pray the Stations of the Cross at 7:00 pm. This will be followed by Low Mass.
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Homes are traditionally blessed during the Octave of Epiphany (6–13 January). 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 one another, priority will be given to homes that haven’t yet been blessed, then to [...]
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Wednesday 22, Friday 24, and Saturday 25 September, 2010. Four times a year, the Church sets aside the Ember Days. These quarterly periods take place around the beginnings of the natural seasons. These days are spent fasting and partially abstaining—voluntary since the 1983 Code of Canon Law—in penance, and are days favoured for priestly ordinations, [...]
Maundy Thursday 7:30 am Office of Tenebrae 7:30 pm Mass of the Institution of the Blessed Sacrament Good Friday 7:30 am Office of Tenebrae 3:00 pm Mass of the Presanctified Holy Saturday 10:00 pm Easter Vigil Easter Sunday 8:00 am Low Mass 10:30 am High Mass Please note that there is no Mass in Abbotsford [...]
Spiritually recharge for Lent with a silent retreat led by the priests of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. These separate retreats for women, men and youth are open to everyone, and are a great opportunity to invite a friend to join you in contemplation, prayer and the sacraments. Please bring a bagged lunch. Women’s [...]
The Church prescribes fasting and abstaining from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. On these days, only one full meal is allowed, in addition to which two smaller collations are permitted according to need, which, if combined, would not be equal to a full meal. Catholics aged 14–59 are bound to abstinence from meat; [...]
This is the schedule of Christmastide services at Holy Family Church in Vancouver. Sunday services will be at the usual times. Christmas Eve, Thursday 24 December 7:30 am & 9:00 am Christmas Day, Friday 25 December Midnight Mass 8:00 am Low Mass 10:30 am High Mass Feast of Saint Stephen, Saturday 26 December 7:30 am [...]
This Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are the autumn Ember Days. Four times a year, the Church sets aside three days to focus on God through His wonderful creation. These ‘Ember Days’ (or Quatuor Tempora in Latin) take place around the beginnings of the four natural seasons, and are each kept on a successive Wednesday, Friday, [...]
