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
Continue readingMartha 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
Continue readingPrayer 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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UNBOUND 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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24 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
Continue readingJesus 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’
Continue readingLearning 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
Continue readingJesus 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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September 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
Continue readingThe 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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