Lent is an especially penitential season, meaning that during Lent we are called to make an extra effort to examine our lives and to strive to live in greater conformity with our faith, to imitate Jesus in a greater way.
During Lent, we also take on some extra penitential practices in order to grow in holiness and be free from the bondage of sin. Because of this, it is fitting that many Catholics choose to receive the sacrament of reconciliation during this holy season.
The essential purpose of confession is to free us from sin, mortal sin in particular. Jesus gave us this sacrament so we might have some means by which our serious sins can be forgiven and by which we can have certainty the sins we confess are indeed forgiven.If you have been away from the Sacrament just come with an open heart!
Check out the locations and times of our Day of Confessions in the 2024 Lent Schedule below.
Solidarity Sunday is March 17, 2024. This year's Share Lent campaign - "Reaping Our Rights" is about rural and peasant communities and how Development and Peace — Caritas Canada can help support them in defending their rights to life, land, water, biodiversity, justice, health, participation, decent livelihoods, a healthy environment and more. Everywhere on Earth, and especially in the Global South, impoverished populations are facing growing challenges due to climate change, land grabbing, resource theft, soil contamination, and armed conflict.
Please read this letter and watch the video message from Bishop Fabbro regarding this year’s Share Lent campaign. Visit Development and Peace - Caritas Canada, for details.
FORMED is a streaming platform (yes, just like Netflix) that allows you unlimited access to the best eBooks, talks, and videos in the Church today!
To register:
Need assistance? Email us at etcfp.dol.ca. We will be happy to help.
You can get on FORMED great online resources that will help you and your family journey this Lent as we honor Christ’s ultimate sacrifice. Our Family of Parishes has invested in a FORMED membership for our parishioners so it is free of charge for you.
We have daily options for you on FORMED. Download the interactive FORMED Lent Calendar here, or
go directly to each one of the resources using the Formed Lent Calendar at the bottom. Remember, register yourself first, so it will be easy.
Join the Tierney family as they celebrate St. Joseph by hammering playdough, sanding plywood, skewering meats, piping pastry, and eating right off the table . . . with their hands. It's a Sicilian tradition! Learn how to make Pasta alla Tavola (Italian for "Pasta on the Table"), homemade breadcrumb "sawdust", finger food appetizers perfect for kid helpers, and tasty St. Joseph cream puffs with easy homemade whipped cream.
In the ancient disciple-rabbi relationship, the disciple would follow the rabbi so closely that he would be covered in the dust kicked up from his rabbi’s feet. Thousands of years later, though we walk on roads of pavement and not dust, we are still called to be disciples—to follow our Rabbi, Jesus Christ, so closely that we are covered with his life, changed, and made new.
Do you sense that movement in you—that desire to go deeper in your relationship with Christ? Do you have a longing to follow Jesus more closely, to be transformed by him? Do you notice a stirring inside, a longing to love God with all your heart, but feel unsure what steps to take next?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, know that God is the one who has put those yearnings in your soul. He has already given you the heart of a disciple. This series simply aims to help you follow those initial promptings of the Holy Spirit so that you may more intentionally encounter Jesus anew each day and be more disposed to the power of his grace molding you, transforming you ever more into his likeness.
What is left for the living to do after someone dies? In this session, we talk about the final ways in which those still living on earth care for the body and soul of the dead. We discuss the work that remains for the living to do as we grieve for the deceased and as we turn to the work of preparing for our own death, and the hope in which we live and die as Christians.
View all episodes here: https://watch.formed.org/eternal-rest
In addition to watching the film series, visit EternalRest.org for practical resources, including 60+ videos of experts answering common questions about end-of-life medical care, funerals, legal documents, grief, and more.
The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is one of the seven sacraments of the Church. But whom exactly is this sacrament for? What are its effects? In this session, we discover the role of this sacramental anointing in the spiritual struggle during serious illness, in the final stages of our temporal life, and at the hour of our death.
View all episodes here: https://watch.formed.org/eternal-rest
In addition to watching the film series, visit EternalRest.org for practical resources, including 60+ videos of experts answering common questions about end-of-life medical care, funerals, legal documents, grief, and more.
Jesus and His students complete their preparations and leave Capernaum for Samaria. Jesus meets with a suffering woman at Jacob's well and announces that He is the Messiah.
Littlest Saints features the lives of the saints as told by kids. In each episode, a young child dons a habit, a cassock, a uniform, anything and everything, and acts out a different heavenly hero’s story, full of drama, comedy, and everything in between.
Visit their website here: www.littlestsaints.com
Beginning on Ash Wednesday, 14 February 2024, and for each Sunday in Lent, up to and including Palm Sunday, a video will be available featuring reflections based on the Readings for the Sunday Eucharistic Celebration.
Geared to individuals, families, and communities, this series is meant to offer spiritual inspiration and guidance on how to prepare well for the Easter season.
This year’s presenters are the Most Reverend Stephen A. Hero, Bishop of Prince Albert, and the Most Reverend Mark Hagemoen, Bishop of Saskatoon (in English) as well as the Most Reverend Martin Laliberté, P.M.É., Bishop of Trois-Rivières (in French)..
Palm Sunday, March 24, marks the beginning of Holy Week, the week which precedes the great Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. Palm Sunday, commemorates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Holy Week includes the last days of Lent and the beginning of the Easter Triduum. Let us prepare our hearts to be amazed by Jesus this Holy Week so that we can start living again. Come and join us in celebrating Lord’s Passion this Holy Week at our Family of Parishes!