Ash Wednesday
February 18, 2026
Mass Times: 9:30 am & 7:00 p.m.
February 18, 2026
Mass Times: 9:30 am & 7:00 p.m.
Stations of the Cross
Fridays @ 7:00 pm
February 20th to March 27th
Fridays @ 7:00 pm
February 20th to March 27th
Lenten Evening of Reconciliation
Thursday, March 26th @ 7:00 pm
Thursday, March 26th @ 7:00 pm
Please note: There are no confessions heard during Holy Week.
Passion (Palm) Sunday
Celebrating Christ's Passion
March 28/29, 2026
Saturday - 5:00 pm
Sunday - 9 am & 11 am
Lenten Message
Ten years ago, Pope Francis called the Universal Church to celebrate an Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy and asked that “the season of Lent in this Jubilee Year be lived more intensely as a privileged moment to celebrate and experience God’s mercy.” God always initiates change in our lives and does so by creating the desire within us that seeks out these expressions of mercy.
To open wide our hearts to the workings of God, we first need to be attentive and listen to the word of God. Lent challenges us to open our Bibles, spend time in silent reflection, and make our hearts available to hear God speaking to them. Blessed Mary, the Mother of God, is our model. She reflected daily on God’s word in the scriptures and received the Good News from the Archangel Gabriel. She embraced God’s Word and sang of the mercy that was shown to her by God.
Pope Francis said, “God’s mercy transforms human hearts; it enables us, through the experience of a faithful love, to become merciful in turn.” We being inspired by God are called to love our neighbour and to devote ourselves to what the Church’s tradition calls the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. These works remind us that faith finds expression in concrete everyday actions meant to help our neighbours in body and spirit: by feeding, visiting, comforting and instructing them. By taking this path, the “proud”, the “powerful” and the “wealthy” spoken of in the Magnificat can also be embraced. This love alone is the answer to that yearning for infinite happiness and love that we think we can satisfy with the idols of knowledge, power and riches.
Let us not waste this season of Lent, so favourable a time for conversion! Let us together encounter the mercy of God and acknowledge, with our Blessed Mother that we too are the humble servants of the Lord.
Celebrating Christ's Passion
March 28/29, 2026
Saturday - 5:00 pm
Sunday - 9 am & 11 am
Lenten Message
Ten years ago, Pope Francis called the Universal Church to celebrate an Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy and asked that “the season of Lent in this Jubilee Year be lived more intensely as a privileged moment to celebrate and experience God’s mercy.” God always initiates change in our lives and does so by creating the desire within us that seeks out these expressions of mercy.
To open wide our hearts to the workings of God, we first need to be attentive and listen to the word of God. Lent challenges us to open our Bibles, spend time in silent reflection, and make our hearts available to hear God speaking to them. Blessed Mary, the Mother of God, is our model. She reflected daily on God’s word in the scriptures and received the Good News from the Archangel Gabriel. She embraced God’s Word and sang of the mercy that was shown to her by God.
Pope Francis said, “God’s mercy transforms human hearts; it enables us, through the experience of a faithful love, to become merciful in turn.” We being inspired by God are called to love our neighbour and to devote ourselves to what the Church’s tradition calls the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. These works remind us that faith finds expression in concrete everyday actions meant to help our neighbours in body and spirit: by feeding, visiting, comforting and instructing them. By taking this path, the “proud”, the “powerful” and the “wealthy” spoken of in the Magnificat can also be embraced. This love alone is the answer to that yearning for infinite happiness and love that we think we can satisfy with the idols of knowledge, power and riches.
Let us not waste this season of Lent, so favourable a time for conversion! Let us together encounter the mercy of God and acknowledge, with our Blessed Mother that we too are the humble servants of the Lord.
Holy Week Resource for Teens The Office of Youth Ministry have prepared resources for our younger parishioners. Designed for young people we invite you to spend the season of Lent in prayer and reflection using the Sunday Gospels, Illuminations from The Saint John's Bible, and paired activities. The Holy Week Journal can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/yyxvxwyj
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FR. JOHN'S EASTER MESSAGE
This is the culmination of the Gospel, the Good News par excellence: Jesus, who was crucified, is risen! This event is the basis of our faith and our hope. If Christ were not raised, Christianity would lose its very meaning; the whole mission of the Church would lose its impulse, for this is the point from which it first set out and continues to set out ever anew. The message which Christians bring to the world is this: Jesus, Love incarnate, died on the cross for our sins, but God the Father raised him and made him the Lord of life and death. In Jesus, love has triumphed over hatred, mercy over sinfulness, goodness over evil, truth over falsehood, life over death.
That is why we tell everyone: “Come and see!” In every human situation, marked by frailty, sin and death, the Good News is no mere matter of words, but a testimony to unconditional and faithful love. It is about leaving ourselves behind and encountering others, being close to those crushed by life’s troubles, sharing with the needy, standing at the side of the sick, elderly and the outcast… “Come and see!”: Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.
With this joyful certainty in our hearts, today we turn to you, risen Lord!
Help us to seek you and to find you, to realize that we have a Father and are not orphans; that we can love and adore you. Help us to overcome the scourge of hunger, aggravated by conflicts and by the immense wastefulness for which we are often responsible. Enable us to protect the vulnerable, especially children, women and the elderly, who are at times exploited and abandoned. Enable us to care for our brothers and sisters struck by diseases which are also spread through neglect and dire poverty.
Comfort those who have left their own lands to migrate to places offering hope for a better future and the possibility of living their lives in dignity and, not infrequently, of freely professing their faith. We ask you, Lord Jesus, to put an end to all war and every conflict, whether great or small, ancient or recent.
Lord, we pray to you for all the peoples of the earth: you who have conquered death, grant us your life, grant us your peace!
Sincerely Yours in Christ,
Rev. John Van Hees
That is why we tell everyone: “Come and see!” In every human situation, marked by frailty, sin and death, the Good News is no mere matter of words, but a testimony to unconditional and faithful love. It is about leaving ourselves behind and encountering others, being close to those crushed by life’s troubles, sharing with the needy, standing at the side of the sick, elderly and the outcast… “Come and see!”: Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.
With this joyful certainty in our hearts, today we turn to you, risen Lord!
Help us to seek you and to find you, to realize that we have a Father and are not orphans; that we can love and adore you. Help us to overcome the scourge of hunger, aggravated by conflicts and by the immense wastefulness for which we are often responsible. Enable us to protect the vulnerable, especially children, women and the elderly, who are at times exploited and abandoned. Enable us to care for our brothers and sisters struck by diseases which are also spread through neglect and dire poverty.
Comfort those who have left their own lands to migrate to places offering hope for a better future and the possibility of living their lives in dignity and, not infrequently, of freely professing their faith. We ask you, Lord Jesus, to put an end to all war and every conflict, whether great or small, ancient or recent.
Lord, we pray to you for all the peoples of the earth: you who have conquered death, grant us your life, grant us your peace!
Sincerely Yours in Christ,
Rev. John Van Hees
The Triduum
Holy Thursday
Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Celebrating our Lord's Giving of the Eucharist
April 2, 2026 - 8:00 pm
(Eucharistic Adoration until 10:00 pm)
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Good Friday
Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
Remembering the Sacrifice our Lord made for all Humanity
April 3, 2026 - 11:00 am & 3:00 pm
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Holy Saturday
Blessing of the Easter Foods
April 4, 2026 - 10:00 am
&
Easter Vigil
April 4, 2026 - 8:00 pm
Service of Light, Baptism and Reception of
New Catholics, Renewal of Baptismal Promises
Celebrating Christ's Rising and the Easter Sacraments
Holy Thursday
Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Celebrating our Lord's Giving of the Eucharist
April 2, 2026 - 8:00 pm
(Eucharistic Adoration until 10:00 pm)
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Good Friday
Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
Remembering the Sacrifice our Lord made for all Humanity
April 3, 2026 - 11:00 am & 3:00 pm
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Holy Saturday
Blessing of the Easter Foods
April 4, 2026 - 10:00 am
&
Easter Vigil
April 4, 2026 - 8:00 pm
Service of Light, Baptism and Reception of
New Catholics, Renewal of Baptismal Promises
Celebrating Christ's Rising and the Easter Sacraments
For three full days, from Holy Thursday evening to Easter Sunday night, the Church celebrates the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ. This liturgy is the highlight of the liturgical year and is very beautiful. We highly encourage your participation!
Easter Sunday
Alleluia!
Our Lord is Truly Risen!!
April 5, 2026
The Resurrection of Our Lord
Sunday
8 am, 10 am and 12 noon
Alleluia!
Our Lord is Truly Risen!!
April 5, 2026
The Resurrection of Our Lord
Sunday
8 am, 10 am and 12 noon