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ARTICLE – Satan’s Tactics
Scriptures remind us that our spiritual battle between good and evil is real: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Eph. 6:12) We
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WEEKLY BULLETIN – October 12, 2021 (Ferial)Give alms, and everything will be made clean for you. (Luke 11.37-41) MESSAGE FROM THE BISHOP Statement Concerning Anti-COVID Vaccines and Vaccine Mandates Please read Bishop Guy Desrochers’ statement here. FROM THE DIOCESE Diocesan Opening of the Synod Bishop Guy Desrochers will officially open the Roman Synod in our Diocese
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WEEKLY BULLETIN – October 5, 2021 (Ferial)
Martha welcomed Jesus into her home. Mary chose the better part. (Luke 10.38-42) MESSAGES FROM THE BISHOP Statement Concerning Anti-COVID Vaccines and Vaccine Mandates Please read Bishop Guy Desrochers’ statement here. FROM THE DIOCESE Thanksgiving Weekend The Diocesan Offices will be closed on Monday, October 11th, and will reopen on
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New Online Evangelization Prayer Group
Prayer as a means of drawing people to Christ is a primary and essential task. Benedict XVI explains that “people who pray are not wasting their time, even though the situation appears desperate and seems to call for action alone.” (Deus caritas est, # 36). Prayer should be the foundation
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RECOMMENDED BOOK – Unbound: A Practical Guide to Deliverance from Evil SpiritsUNBOUND Ministry is an approach to deliverance and healing prayer developed by Neal Lozano. UNBOUND is a safe, loving, effective prayer model that helps people to respond to the good news of the gospel.
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Statement of Apology by the Catholic Bishops of Canada to the Indigenous Peoples of This Land24 September 2021 We, the Catholic Bishops of Canada, gathered in Plenary this week, take this opportunity to affirm to you, the Indigenous Peoples of this land, that we acknowledge the suffering experienced in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. Many Catholic religious communities and dioceses participated in this system, which led
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WEEKLY BULLETIN – September 28, 2021 (Ferial)
Jesus set his face to go to Jerusalem. (Luke 9.51-56) MESSAGES FROM THE BISHOP Letter of Exemption Requests Please read Bishop Guy Desrochers’ letter dated September 16, 2021 to priests and deacons of the Diocese of Pembroke here. Statement Concerning Anti-COVID Vaccines and Vaccine Mandates Please read Bishop Guy Desrochers’
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ARTICLE – Learning to Be a Missionary
Learning to be a missionary takes place in a context and attitude of love for people who do not know or follow Christ. It requires being open to the ideas and perspectives of others and suspending our personal, cultural and religious ideas to listen to their experience. The path to
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WEEKLY BULLETIN – September 21, 2021 (St. Matthew, Apostle, Evangelist)
Jesus said, “Follow me.” Matthew arose and followed Jesus. (Matthew 9.9-13) MESSAGES FROM THE BISHOP Letter of Exemption Requests Please read Bishop Guy Desrochers’ letter dated September 16, 2021 to priests and deacons of the Diocese of Pembroke here. Statement Concerning Anti-COVID Vaccines and Vaccine Mandates Please read Bishop Guy
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Letter of Exemption RequestsSeptember 16, 2021 To the priests and deacons of the Diocese of Pembroke This sixteenth day of September, 2021 Dear confreres: In recent days, I have been asked if clergy would be permitted to write a letter requesting that people be exempted from the requirement to be vaccinated for employment
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ARTICLE – When We Cry Out To God, He Answers
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Evangelical church has emerged as one of the largest Christian communities in New York City, but its journey to this point was far from straightforward. When Jim Cymbala assumed the role of pastor in the early 1970s, the church counted only about 30 members and teetered on
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WEEKLY BULLETIN – September 14, 2021 (The Exaltation of the Holy Cross)
So must the Son of Man be lifted up. (John 3.13-17) FROM THE DIOCESE Chancery Office Hours A reminder that the Diocesan Offices are now open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Study Day for Priests Please keep our priests in your prayers as they attend their
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Statement concerning anti-COVID Vaccines and Vaccine Mandates
September 12, 2021 The decision whether or not to be vaccinated is a personal decision of conscience. In the present context, it is morally licit to be vaccinated, but it is not a moral obligation. There are too many grey areas for there to be a hard-and-fast position for or
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ARTICLE – Presence and Proclamation
Views on evangelization have often clustered around two poles: “presence” and “proclamation.” The term “Christian presence” was minted in French Catholicism. Blessed Charles de Foucauld described his vocation as being present amongst people, a presence willed and intended as a witness of the love of Christ. The term “Christian presence”
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WEEKLY BULLETIN – September 7, 2021 (Ferial)
Jesus spent the night in prayer, and he chose twelve of the disciples and named them apostles. (Luke 6.12-19) FROM THE DIOCESE Clergy Appointments The Most Reverend Guy Desrochers C.Ss.R. announced the following appointments: Due to immigration issues that continue to preclude the return of Reverend Cyril Okebanama, s.m.m.m. from
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ARTICLE – Saving Those Who Are Lost
The possibility of perdition for human beings is real. The Church has always taught this and it has not changed (COC #1022). In his Epistle to the Hebrews, Saint Paul speaks of those who are lost and those who save their souls: “We are not the sort of people who
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WEEKLY BULLETIN – August 24, 2021 (St. Bartholomew, Apostle)
Here is truly an Israelite, one in whom there is no deceit. (John 1.45-51) FROM THE DIOCESE Deacons’ Spiritual Retreat Day Please keep our Deacons and their wives in your prayers as they prepare for their Spiritual Retreat Day with Bishop Desrochers on Thursday, August 26th. Summer Office Hours The
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Statement from the Executive Committee of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding the Corporation for the Catholic Entities Party to the Indian Residential School Settlement
20 August 2021 The Executive Committee of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) wishes to address recent reporting on the Corporation for the Catholic Entities Party to the Indian Residential School Settlement (CCEPIRSS). As a Committee, we have been profoundly saddened by the recent uncovering of unmarked burial sites
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ARTICLE – Saint-Nazaire Parish: The story of a missionary transformation
The Saint-Nazaire church is another example of parish missionary transformation. Located in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, it changed parish priests in 1994. When he arrived, he found that the faithful were involved in parish activities, but most of the community was composed of seniors. Desiring it to change, he took his parochial
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WEEKLY BULLETIN – August 17, 2021 (Ferial)
It is easier to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. (Matthieu 19.23-30) FROM THE DIOCESE Summer Office Hours The Diocesan Offices will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Thursday, and will close at noon
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RECOMMENDED BOOK – Evangelization: A Challenge for the Catholic ChurchThis short, easy to read book by Fr. Bob Bedard, will help you: – Increase your understanding of evangelization – Grow in confidence to proclaim the Good News – Learn the practical three-step dynamic of evangelization.
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ARTICLE – Small Groups and Evangelization
Evangelization experts suggest that to grow a church, leaders should keep the front doors wide open, create multiple side entrances, and ensure the back door is securely closed. In this analogy, the front doors represent welcoming weekend services for non-believers, the side entrances symbolize small groups that reach out to
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ARTICLE – EVANGELIZING BY INVITING PEOPLE TO RECEIVE JESUS AS LORD AND SAVIOUR
Many missional churches evangelize by inviting people to “accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour” (2 Peter 3:18). They understand evangelization as a proclamation of the Gospel that calls for a response to Christ who urges us to repentance, conversion and discipleship. Those who are evangelized are lead to make a
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WEEKLY BULLETIN – August 10, 2021 (St. Lawrence, Deacon, Martyr)
Whoever serves me will be honoured by my Father. (John 12.24-26) FROM THE DIOCESE Residential Schools Learn more about the history of residential schools and Indigenous reconciliation in Canada here. Prayers For the repose of the soul of Sister Pamela Bennett (Sister Rosemary), CSJ, who passed away on Monday, August
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