Parish News & Events
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Advent Message from Cardinal Leo
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Advent Reconciliation Days - December 15 & 17
Our Lady of Lourdes: Monday December 15, 2025 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
St. Patrick’s: Wednesday December 17, 2025 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Registration for First Communion & Confirmation - Due December 15
Registration has now opened for First Communion and Confirmation. Please download, print, and fill out the application forms below and return them to Father Ricardo (in printed format please) before December 15. Be sure to also bring your child's baptismal certificate. First Communion registration is for children in Grade 2 and up.
Classes for both groups start on Saturday February 7 at Our Lady of Lourdes in Elmvale from 10am to 11am every Saturday. More details to come at the first meeting on February 7.
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Sunday, December 21 - Fourth Sunday of Advent
9:00 a.m. St. Patrick's
11:00 a.m. Our Lady of Lourdes
Wednesday, December 24 - Christmas Vigil Masses
7:00 p.m. Our Lady of Lourdes
9:30 p.m. St. Patrick
Thursday December 25 - Christmas Day - The Nativity of the Lord - Holy Day of Obligation
9:00 a.m. St. Patrick's
11:00 a.m. Our Lady of Lourdes
Friday December 26 NO MASS FOR THIS TIME ONLY
Saturday, December 27 ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE, EVANGELIST
9:00 a.m. St. Patrick's
4:30 p.m. Our Lady of Lourdes
Sunday, December 28 THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH
9:00 a.m. St. Patrick's
11:00 a.m. Our Lady of Lourdes
Wednesday, DECEMBER 31 - Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity
9:00 a.m. St. Patrick's
4:30 p.m. Our Lady of Lourdes
Thursday JANUARY 1, 2026 THE SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD
The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord - Holy Day of Obligation
9:00 a.m. St. Patrick's
ATTENTION : NO DAILY MASSES IN JANUARY 2026 - Weekends regular schedule
St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica
Closing Mass for the Year of Jubilee – December 28
We wish to extend a warm invitation to the faithful of the archdiocese to join Cardinal Leo for the Closing Mass for the Year of Jubilee – Sun. Dec. 28, 2025 @ 5pm - St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica
The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be available with numerous priests from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.
All are most welcome. Please publicize this event in your parish bulletin.
Each Jubilee Pilgrimage Church will also celebrate a Closing Mass for the Year of the Jubilee on Sunday, December 28, 2025, at a regularly scheduled Mass of their own choice. Please visit the pilgrimage church websites for further details:
ShareLife Donations Doubled Until the End of the Year
Every dollar you give to ShareLife will be doubled!
From November 3 until year end, your contribution to our parish’s ShareLife campaign will be matched by an anonymous donor up to a total of $500,000. Too often, families face their struggles in silence, unseen and unheard – but thanks to your compassion, they are seen and heard. New data shows that many food bank visitors are working age and that one in four visitors is children. Through ShareLife’s Food Security Grants, parents find relief in knowing they can provide nourishing meals for their children, and seniors are able to live with dignity, free from the fear of hunger. These are just a few ways your love leads the way, bringing warmth, comfort, and renewed hope to those who need it most.
Our goal this year is $25,000. To date we have achieved 18,565.00. Please give at the parish using a ShareLife envelope, online through our parish website, or at sharelife.org/donate.
Catholic Women's League Membership Renewal
Don’t forget to renew your membership - $35. You may put it in the collection basket clearly marked “CWL membership” or you can deliver it to 9 Glenview Avenue. All women of the parish are encouraged to join us as we support our parish, community and beyond.
Lector Schedule
If you were a lector in the past, please sign up on the schedule posted on the bulletin board in the lobby of the churches.
If you have considered becoming a lector and would like to make the move and become a lector, please speak with Fr. Ricardo.
The Catholic Women's League - Join Us Today!
An open invitation is extended to all women of our parish to take this opportunity to share your God-given gifts with us as we try to effect change in our parish, our community, our country and in those countries that have not been blessed with the abundance we enjoy in Canada.
Please consider joining our League.
The CWL of Canada is the united voice of Catholic women.
Please contact the membership convenor Margaret Ann at 322-2249.
