Liturgy

As part of the preparations for the Jubilee Year 2025 the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is offering a free webinar series titled: Symphony of Prayer.  This series started with a four part series on the Our Father.  This fall it continues with a four part series focusing on Mary and the Saints.  See the details below:

On August 10, 2024 Archbishop Dunn will ordain Charley Vaughan to the diaconate.  The ordination will take place at 10:00am at Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica.  You are invited to join in the event to celebrate this new chapter in Charley’s ministry.

Charley was born in Halifax, the youngest of three children of Charles and Shirley. He graduated from St. Patrick’s High School in Halifax and went on to complete a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Saint Mary’s University. In his professional career, he worked in sales in a number of different industries, and retired in 2021.

The parishioners of Saint Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi Parish invite those with a connection to Saint Theresa’s Church on North St., Halifax to join them for the closing Mass.

On Sunday, January 21, 2024 after the angelus the Holy Father announced a Year of Prayer:

“The coming months will lead us to the opening of the Holy Door, with which we will begin the Jubilee. I ask you to intensify your prayer to prepare us to live well this event of grace, and to experience the strength of God’s hope. Therefore, today we begin the Year of Prayer; that is, a year dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer in personal life, in the life of the Church, and in the world. We will also be helped by the resources that the Dicastery for Evangelization will make available.”

As we prepare to welcome Pope Francis to Canada, we invite Catholics from across the country to participate in this historic journey in a number of different ways. In addition to television coverage of papal events, visit www.papalvisit.ca or www.visitepapale.ca to access more than 10 livestream links of coverage featuring interpretation in many languages (including Indigenous languages), as well as livestream links from Vatican TV including commentary.