Women’s Retreat “Mary, Our Mother”
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The Diocese of Calgary invites individuals who feel called to assist their parish in a healing ministry. This Pastoral Care Training is designed for those who wish to support the sick, elderly, dying, homebound, and bereaved members of their community. Note: Participants should receive approval from their Pastor and/or Pastoral Care Coord. Please reach out to your parish for screening requirements.
2024 Pastoral Care Ministry Training in Calgary, AB
Registration Fee:
The registration fee is $70 per person, which covers training costs, lunch for both sessions, and refreshments.
We understand that the fee might be a concern for some, but please rest assured that it should not be a deterrent to your participation. No one will be denied the opportunity to join us. If you need alternative arrangements, please contact Anthony at .
We are excited to share that another batch of Catholic Women Unite T-shirts are available to purchase! T-shirts are $20 each and are available in sizes Small to 3X.
Orders will close on March 31, 2024 so get your t-shirt order in before they are gone. They will be shipped to you in April 2024 or you can pick up in Edmonton. Learn more at https://catholicwomenunite.ca or click here to access the online store.
This Lenten season, Calgary Catholic Education Foundation (CCEF) invites us to come together to make a meaningful impact in the lives of pregnant and parenting students in our Catholic community.
The CCEF is a registered charity with Canada Revenue Agency and is acting as the fiscal agent on record for the KARA program. The CCEF only donates funds to the Calgary Catholic School District and the KARA program is within the CCSD. See https://justgiving.com/campaign/ccef-karaprogram to donate for the students in the KARA program.
There are employment opportunities that are currently available in the Diocese of Calgary:
Visit www.catholicyyc.ca/careers for more information and details.
As part of the Diocesan Renewal, the Office of Vocations is excited to launch the 40 Hours Devotion for Vocations in the Diocese of Calgary - catholicyyc.ca/40hours. This initiative invites us to pray continuously for forty hours before the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, with a focus on increasing vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.
Please Read the Bishop's Letter on 40 Hours Devotion for Vocations - available to Download here
Regnum Christi Calgary is inviting young people to a week-long event during Holy Week 2024. This event is designed to help young people develop a deeper relationship with Christ and will include a range of activities such as Mass, Adoration, Confession, games, food, live Stations of the Cross, and a Marian procession. The event will be held from Mar 24 - 30 at St. James' Parish in Okotoks. More info & registration
Development and Peace - Caritas Canada’s Share Lent campaign this year is called "Create Hope – Reaping Our Rights". Bishop McGrattan invites parishioners to participate in this campaign through generosity, engagement, and solidarity. If you have any comments or would like help or more information, please don't hesitate to contact Carol Hollywood at .
Everywhere on Earth, and especially in the Global South, impoverished populations are facing growing challenges due to climate change, land grabbing, resource theft, soil contamination and armed conflict.
Rural populations are particularly affected by these upheavals, and Development and Peace — Caritas Canada supports them in defending their rights to life, land, water, biodiversity, justice, health, participation, decent livelihoods, a healthy environment and more.
Resources for Share Lent 2024 "Reaping Our Rights" campaign are available here
Launch & Information Meetings for Share Lent 2024 "Reaping Our Rights" campaign:
Let your speech always be graciousA Pastoral Letter on the roles of social media in modern life was recently issued by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB). It offers a reflection on both the good and harm which social media impacts individuals and communities. As we prepare for Lent, it may inform our decisions around fasting and of almsgiving related to our use of social media. Using insights from the latest CCCB pastoral letter, "Let Your Speech Always be Gracious," and the Holy Father's Lenten message, Bishop McGrattan highlights the seven commitments we should make to witness to core Christian values and help build a healthy online environment that serves the common good. |
Our Diocese welcomes five new seminarians who have begun their formation at St. Joseph Seminary in Edmonton. They have joined the eight returning seminarians who have already been discerning the priesthood for our Diocese. Please remember to pray for our Seminarians and all those actively discerning the priesthood in our Diocese:
Lord Jesus Christ, eternal High Priest, lead our seminarians daily in your footsteps, that they may become priests aflame with love for God and all. Amen. St. Joseph, pray for us.
250 participants joined our recent online session, “Welcome Home: How to make our parishes more inviting”. If you missed it, or would like a recap, please find the following:
Transitions is a 18 week, peer led support group, for individuals who are working through the pain of separation and divorce toward growth and new life. The group meets every Tuesday, beginning February 13, 2024 (7 to 9 pm) and will run until June 18, 2024. In this 18-week God-centered program, participants find strength in healing after separation or divorce, fostering growth through mutual understanding and connection.
We lament the loss of all innocent lives and the displacement of all innocent peoples, Israelis and Palestinians, due to the ensuing war. While we pray for the eternal rest of all the deceased and for God's strength and comfort for those grieving, let us help our brothers and sisters in need.
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Back for a second series, every third Monday of the month, beginning Monday, Sep. 18 at 10:30 am Fr. Tim Boyle will speak on The Art of Accompaniment, picking up on the theme from the Synod preparation document "Enlarge the Tent."
Sessions will be available in-person at St. Martha's, Lethbridge, or watch via livestream at stmarthsparish.ca
Our hearts and prayers are with those who died and those suffering after the terrorist attack and the continuing conflict in the Holy Land. Let us join Pope Francis and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa to pray for peace. The Holy Father asks that Catholics continue to pray through the intercession of Mary "for the gift of peace for the many countries of the world marked by war and conflict.“
"We ask God to inspire world leaders in their intervention for the implementation of peace and concord, so that Jerusalem may be a house of prayer for all peoples.” ~Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa
For those killed, displaced, and impacted by the terrorist attack in Israel and the ensuing war, may God grant eternal rest to the deceased, console those grieving, protect and comfort those in fear, and guide world leaders so this conflict may be brought to a peaceful end, let us pray to the Lord...
A video, Papal Visit to Canada, One Year Later, has been produced by the Archdiocese of Edmonton with reflections from Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, Archbishop Anthony Wieslaw Krotki, Archbishop Richard Smith, and Maskwacis Chief Victor Buffalo. The video highlights Pope Francis’ visit as a significant step on the road to healing and reconciliation, noting that the work and commitment will continue. It demonstrates that the Holy Father’s visit also made not only the idea, but the reality of reconciliation possible.
Walking Together: Into One Beat - A new documentary from Salt + Light on Pope Francis' penitential pilgrimage to Canada
In July 2022, Pope Francis visited Indigenous communities, celebrated Mass in Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium and at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and, most importantly, apologized for the Church’s role in the country’s Residential School System. Walking Together: Into One Beat features interviews with members of the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in Alberta, Quebec, and Nunavut, who share their heartfelt stories as they prepare for the Holy Father’s arrival. After the visit, they offer their reactions, impressions, and hopes for this country of many nations moving forward, as one, on the journey of reconciliation. Watch it here.
A groundbreaking report published by the Ottawa-based Cardus Institute has given voice to Indigenous Canadians who are frustrated by secular society’s unawareness of — or unwillingness to accept — the fact that almost half of them are Christian. The executive director of the Catholic Civil Rights League, Christian Elia, says society should grant Indigenous Catholics the respect and personal agency that is due all Canadians. He said his organization has heard from many Indigenous Catholics who are “growing weary of the ongoing assumption that somehow they have been coerced into the faith, that it is inconceivable that they wish to be Catholic. This condescending attitude must stop.” Read more