Erie Tri-County Catholic 
Family of Parishes

The Year of Prayer started on Pentecost 2023 and runs until Pentecost 2024. On our website, you will find the prayer and a children's prayer for vocations. Help us by praying for more young men to choose a life of faith and service in the priesthood.

We invite you to participate in learning sessions on Horizons of Hope: A Toolkit for Catholic Parishes on Palliative Care. Our faith in Jesus Christ has much to teach us about living well until the end of life. The program will help parishioners, caregivers, and family members facing terminal illness to learn more about palliative care.

As people of faith in Christ, horizons of hope open before us when we gather around the sick and the dying. Families, friends, parish communities, and health care professionals, together, all play an important role in caring for and accompanying those in need of palliative care that recognizes the dignity of the human person.

This program was developed by the  Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) who formed a Joint Ad hoc Committee on Palliative Care with a variety of partners and experts to address the increasing complexities regarding end-of-life issues in Canada. 

Throughout four (4) modules, the learning and discussion sessions address themes such as understanding the dying process, discernment and decision-making at the end of life, accompaniment, and the importance of building Compassionate Communities.

The four-module program will take place in the Church Basement at St. Mary's, Tillsonburg on the following dates: 

• Module 1: Wednesday, September 27 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm 
• Module 2: Wednesday, October 4 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm 
• Module 3: Wednesday, October 11 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm 
• Module 4: Wednesday, October 18 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm 

To register call the parish office at 519-842-3224, email etcfp@dol.ca, or register online using this 

Registration Form

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When we became Family of Parishes, a transition team was formed and that team was acting as the Parish Pastoral Council for the last two years. Therefore, the Parish Pastoral Council discussed the formation of a new Parish Pastoral Council and now we are in the process of forming a new Parish Pastoral Council for our Family of Parishes.

We will have only one Parish Pastoral Council for our Family of Parishes and it will have members representing all the three Churches of our Family of Parishes. The Parish Pastoral Council is a consultative body to help the pastor in the mission to lead the faith community toward a personal relationship with Jesus and to form disciples of Christ.

As the first step in the process of forming a new Parish Pastoral Council, we invited our parishioners to suggest name/s of the parishioners who could serve the Council in the mission of the Church. 

We are now in the process of contacting the suggested persons to inform them that their name was suggested by a parishioner. We will have a meeting, sometime in the middle of October, with all of those whose names were suggested, to give them an understanding of what the roles and responsibilities of the Parish Pastoral Council members are. Then we will let everyone pray over it, for a few months before we make a final selection to form a new Parish Pastoral Council by the end of the year. Please keep the process of the formation of a new Parish Pastoral Council in your prayers as we move forward in our mission.
Thank you, dear parishioners. 

On September 23 and 24, the Diocese of London will begin a new special collection for our Truth and Reconciliation Fund. The goal of the campaign is to help our local Indigenous communities heal from the traumas of the past, preserve and promote their culture and build for the future. More information is in the letter from Bishop Fabbro to the faithful about the Truth & Reconciliation Fund available by clicking the image.

Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries.

Pope Francis – October 2023

Check https://thepopevideo.org/ for details