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2025.10.26 30th Sunday in Ordinary TimeDear Parishioners, In the Archdiocese of Toronto, this Sunday, the last Sunday of October, is commemorated as the Day of Palliative Care, a day to appreciate the gift of life and to promote palliative care. Palliative care is the...Posted: Oct-23-2025 -
2025.10.19 29th Sunday in Ordinary TimeDear Parishioners, This Sunday, October 19th, we celebrate the 99th World Mission Sunday and this year’s theme is “Missionaries of Hope Among All Peoples”. This theme, inspired by the Jubilee Year of Hope, calls...Posted: Oct-16-2025
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2025.10.12 28th Sunday in Ordinary TimeDear Parishioners, This weekend we celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is more than a holiday or a long weekend. Thanksgiving is a sacred time to pause, look back and recognize the countless blessings of God that go unnoticed in the hustle and...Posted: Oct-09-2025
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Youth Ministry ELEVATE Training Soars to New HeightsSt. Bonaventure Parish hosted ELEVATE, the Office of Catholic Youth's annual youth ministry training event on the weekend of Sept. 13 to 14. Representatives from 62 parishes gathered to be trained and formed more deeply in their roles to...Posted: Oct-07-2025 -
2025.10.05 27th Sunday in Ordinary TimeDear Parishioners, I would like to highlight a couple of points this weekend: The First, as I announced in the masses last weekend, October is the month of the Holy Rosary—a time to draw closer to Christ through...Posted: Oct-02-2025
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Jubilee of Migrants: Hope Away from HomeFr. Edwin Logrono is associate pastor at Holy Martyrs of Japan Parish in Bradford, Ont., who with Pastor Fr. John Pak and a team of volunteers, runs the St. Philip of Jesus (San Felipe de Jesús) Mission to...Posted: Oct-02-2025 -
Truth and Reconciliation during the Jubilee YearSeptember 30 has been designated as an observed ‘National Day for Truth & Reconciliation.’ In the face of historic and present injustices toward and among Indigenous Peoples in the lands of Canada, this is a day...Posted: Sep-26-2025 -
2025.09.28 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time SundayDear Parishioners, Hope the first few weeks of September were not too hard, especially for those with young families who have to deal with issues around back-to-school. You all continue to be in our parish’s thoughts...Posted: Sep-25-2025
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Edge Camps Wrap Up 2025 SeasonAugust 28 brought to a close 13 days straight of EDGE Camps for almost 600 kids whose parishes planned and ran the camps this year in collaboration with the Office of Catholic Youth. Three camps for 11 to 13...Posted: Sep-22-2025 -
Jubilee of Justice: Living Justly and Walking Hopefully with GodThe Holy See has designated Sept. 20 as the Jubilee of Justice, a day to recognize those involved with bringing about God’s vision of justice for the world – both in secular and canon law. Sharing his reflection...Posted: Sep-19-2025 -
2025.09.21 Stewardship Sunday-25th Sunday in Ordinary TimeDear Parishioners, Stewardship Sunday is celebrated annually across the entire Archdiocese of Toronto on the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Stewardship Sunday normally occurs on the third Sunday in September, which is this Sunday. Stewardship Sunday gives us, the priests...Posted: Sep-18-2025
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Raising a Saint: Interview with St. Carlo Acutis’ MotherIn light of St. Carlo Acutis’ canonization, Catholic Moms Group recently shared their interview with his mother, Antonia Salzano, on their YouTube program Midday Moms with Dorothy Pilarski. “Carlo used to say that the Eucharist was his...Posted: Sep-18-2025 -
2025.09.14 The Exaltation of The Holy Cross-24th Sunday in Ordinary TimeDear Parishioners, Fr. Sojan and I invite the members of our parish community to be in solidarity of prayer with our religious community, the Congregation of Holy Cross, as we celebrate the feast of our Congregational patroness, Our Lady of...Posted: Sep-11-2025 -
50 Years of Campus Ministry at York UniversityThis year the Catholic Chaplaincy at York (CCY) marked an impressive milestone: 50 years of Catholic ministry on campus. When York University was in its infancy, the Archdiocese committed to supporting Catholic students at the new institution, which had no...Posted: Sep-09-2025 -
2025.09.07 23rd Sunday in Ordinary TimeDear Parishioners, I hope that all of you have had a peaceful and restful summer. Another school year is upon us and the summer is over…almost! The beginning of the school year signals the resuming of the numerous...Posted: Sep-04-2025 -
UTSC Chaplaincy Celebrates 10th AnniversaryThis summer, the UTSC Catholic Chaplaincy reached an important milestone: 10 years of fruitful ministry on the campuses of UTSC and Centennial College. The chaplaincy community marked the occasion on June 7 with Mass offered by the chaplain and pastor...Posted: Aug-21-2025 -
2025.08.01 August NewsletterDear Parishioners, Hope summer is going well for you and for your families. The summer days leading up to the Labour Day weekend are a bit of a down time for us in the parish with schools closed and a...Posted: Jul-31-2025
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Celebrating the Treasure of GrandparentsGrandmother of four Maureen Crawford, a parishioner at Immaculate Conception Parish in Sutton, Ont., reflects on her special role in light of the 5th World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly on Sunday, July 27. This year’s theme...Posted: Jul-21-2025 -
Second “Comeback Year” for Local Parish Youth Ministries at Franciscan University in OhioFor the second straight year, the Office of Catholic Youth organized a collaborative trip with 13 parishes to send 216 young people and chaperones to attend the Franciscan University of Steubenville Youth Conference in Ohio from June 27 to 29...Posted: Jul-17-2025 -
Rejoicing in HopeSpiritus Ministry, the young adult ministry of the Office of Catholic Youth, hosted its annual retreat, Reawaken, in late June at Cedar Glen YMCA Outdoor Education Centre. Young adults from across the Archdiocese and beyond gathered for a weekend of...Posted: Jul-14-2025
