Liturgy

This week three parishes on peninsular Halifax will start to offer a daily 7:30am Mass. This is the result of feedback the diocese has received from people who would like to go to Mass prior to the beginning of their work day. Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Good Shepherd Parish, and Saint Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi Parish will host these early morning Mass at 7:30am with the following schedule:

On December 7, 2024 Canada was gifted with another Cardinal.  On that day Pope Francis elevated 21 new members to the College of Cardinals. The only North American was Most Reverend Francis Leo, Archbishop of Toronto.   Salt and Light TV produced a segment on now His Eminence Francis Cardinal Leo giving people a glimpse of the ceremony and what it takes to make a cardinal.  You can view the segment from Salt and Light’s weekly show Behold by clicking here.

In 2025 the Catholic Church universal celebrates a Jubilee Year.   Pope Francis has stated that the  overarching theme of our upcoming Jubilee year is: hope.  In the papal bull declaring the year he wrote:

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.

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, the Apostolic Nuncio (papal ambassador) to Canada, will be coming to Halifax to bestow the Pallium on Archbishop Dunn on Tuesday, May 31, 2022.  A Ceremony of Bestowal will take place during a special Mass that day at 3:00pm at Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica. Archbishop Dunn invites all to join him for this celebration.

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