Author: St. Ann's Webmaster

My dear parishioners: The total cost of our new 573 m2 paving parking-lot now is $38.724.00 included tax. This total cost is first paid to Eriksson Earthworks Ltd of $ 12.943.30 for excavating, then to Quesnel Paving of $25.780.70 for paving. It is an expensive project you may say; however it must be fixed for the reason of safety for all of us, who are in and out on the parking lot for diff...
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June 26th 2015.My dear parishioners and visitors, A warm greeting from Queen of Apostles, (www.qoa.ca), Mississauga, Ont. I am now at Queen of Apostle for the Canadian Pontifical Missions Society Meeting. (www.missionsocieties.ca). There are 27 representatives: clergy, religious sisters, permanent deacons and laypeople, coming from different English speaking dioceses across Canada. We come togethe...
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My dear parishioners and visitors; Being a boat person, packed in like a sardine in a small boat floating and drifting in the ocean for 2 nights and 1 day in April 1986, I love this Sunday’s gospel-story: Jesus calming the stormy sea (Mk 4:35-41). St. Mark vividly tells us that the apostles and Jesus were in a boat crossing to the other side of the sea. Their boat suddenly was in a deadly st...
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My dear parishioners and visitors; We are now in the 11th Sunday in Ordinary time. The season of Ordinary time is the days between Christmas and Lent and the days between Easter and Advent. During this period we are personally with Jesus on his public ministry of proclaiming the good news of salvation. Jesus, through this Sunday’s gospel, teaches us that it is the unseen power of God that ma...
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My dear parishioners and visitors, Have a blessed weekend and happy Feast Day: Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ. Today we joyfully celebrate the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ to honor in very special way the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist.  This teaching is deeply rooted in the Sacred Scripture: Ex. 16: 1-36; especially in St. John 6: 1-71, Jesus’ own t...
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My dear parishioners and visitors, We celebrated for the last two weekends the Feasts of Ascension and of Pentecost. This weekend we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Body and Blood of Christ, also known as Corpus Christi, on the next weekend. These are the four important feasts, being celebrated yearly at the end of the Easter Season and the beginning of the Ordinary ...
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My dear parishioners and visitors. Last Sunday we celebrated the Ascension of our Lord. This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost. Pentecost was a Jewish festival fifty days after Passover to celebrate the giving of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai (Ex 19:16-19). The biblical event in Acts 2:1-13, taken place on Pentecost, was the manifestation and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon th...
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Dear parishioners and visitors; Today we joyfully celebrate the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. St. Luke and St. Mark clearly describe Jesus’ Ascension (Acts 1:1-11, Mk.16:19, Lk 24:50-52). The Church concisely states and firmly proclaim it in the Creed: “He ascended into Heaven”. There is a good theological connection between the Incarnation, the Birth of Jesus, and His Ascension. (CCC....
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Dear parishioners and visitors; “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (Jn. 15:12). “Beloved, let us love another” (1 Jn. 4:7) St. John and Jesus in the readings for this 6th Sunday of Easter give us a memorable and an important teaching about love. This teaching of love captures the heart of the Good News: God is love and has loved us in Jesus Christ and we a...
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