Advent Penitential Services are listed by date.
This list is updated as details are received from each parish, as schedules change or are delayed due to the COVID pandemic. If you are looking for a Penitential Service in a specific parish and do not see it listed, please consult the Parishes page and contact that parish's office. Many parishes also schedule extra times for individual confessions during this season; contact your parish for details.
For information about about confessions, we offer resources at https://caedm.ca/confessions
All services begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
December 6
Our Lady of the Prairies, Daysland (Dec 6-8 at 7 p.m.)
December 8
St. Edmund, Edmonton (3-7 p.m.)
December 9
Our Lady of Lourdes, Jasper (from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.)
Sacred Heart, Wetaskiwin (No Penitential Service. Additional Confession times available: Dec 9 & 10, 6:30-8 p.m.)
St. Agnes, Mayerthorpe (at 6:30 p.m.)
December 10
Holy Cross, Grande Cache (6:30-8 p.m.)
Our Lady of the Rockies, Susa Creek (at Grande Cache)
Sacred Heart, Wetaskiwin (No Penitential Service. Additional Confession times available: Dec 9 & 10, 6:30-8 p.m.)
St. Theresa, Edmonton
December 11
St. Elizabeth, Evansburg (at 6:30 p.m.)
St. Matthew, Edmonton (from 6-7:30 p.m.)
St. Peter, Villeneuve (6 p.m. Adoration and Confession, 7 p.m. Mass)
St. Catherine, Calahoo (at Villeneuve)
St. Charles, Mearns (at Villeneuve)
December 13
St. John Bosco, Edmonton
December 15
Corpus Christi, Consort (at Provost)
Jesuit Martyrs, Evergreen (Confessions from 3-4 p.m.)
Our Lady Queen of Poland (Polish) (6 p.m. and 7 p.m.)
St. Mary, Provost
St. Matthew, Rocky Mountain House (Confessions from 7-8 p.m.)
December 16
Holy Name, Vermilion
Our Lady of the Foothills, Hinton
Sacred Heart Parish, Edson (at 6 p.m.)
Santa Maria Goretti (Italian) (9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. full day)
St. Matthew, Rocky Mountain House (Confessions from 3-4 p.m.)
St. Dominic Savio, Edmonton
December 18
Blessed Sacrament, Wainwright
St. Anthony, Drayton Valley (at 6:30 p.m.)
St. Matthew, Rocky Mountain House (Confessions from 7-8 p.m.)
St. Joseph the Workman, Caroline (Confessions from 3-4 p.m.)
December 19
St. Joseph Basilica, Edmonton 12 noon- 2 p.m.
St. Matthew, Rocky Mountain House (Confessions from 3-4 p.m.)
December 20
St. Matthew, Rocky Mountain House (Confessions from 3-4 p.m.)
No specific Date
Our Lady of Fatima (Portuguese) (No Penitential Service. Confessions by appointment)
Our Lady of Seven Sorrows, Maskwacis (see Wetaskiwin)
Mary Help of Christians (Chinese) (Open the whole Advent season for Penitential)
St. Alphonsus (no service scheduled)
St. Clare, Edmonton (no service scheduled)
St. Michael, Leduc (Confession Tue.-Sat., 10 a.m.-12 Noon by appointment. Before weekday Masses and Saturday evening Masses without appointment.)
St. Thomas More (one hour before all weekday Masses, Mon.-Fri. 5-6 p.m. and Tue.-Sat. 8-9 a.m.)
Dates currently being determined:
Annunciation
Assumption (at Resurrection)
Christ-King, Stettler
Corpus Christi, Edmonton
Corpus Christi Chapel of Perpetual Adoration
Good Shepherd
Holy Family, St. Albert
Holy Heart of Mary, Viking
Holy Rosary (Polish)
Holy Trinity, Spruce Grove-Stony Plain
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Bashaw
Lac Ste. Anne
Nativity of Mary (Croatian)
Our Lady Queen of Poland (Polish)
Our Lady of Good Council and St. Michael, Skaro
Our Lady of Good Help Maronite Catholic Community
Our Lady of Grace, Castor
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Edmonton (Spanish)
Our Lady of Lourdes, Lac La Nonne (at Onoway)
Our Lady of Mercy, Enoch
Our Lady of Peace, Innisfail
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sherwood Park
Our Lady of Victory, Thorsby
Our Lady of the Angels, Fort Saskatchewan
Our Lady of the Assumption, Sylvan Lake
Queen of Martyrs (Vietnamese), Edmonton
Resurrection
Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples, Edmonton
Sacred Heart, Gibbons
Sacred Heart, Red Deer
St. Agnes, Edmonton
St. Albert, St. Albert
St. Albert Francophone Community
St. Alphonsa (Syro-Malabar)
St. Andrew
St. Anne of the Prairies, Trochu
St. Anthony, Edmonton (at St. Agnes)
St. Anthony, Lloydminster
St. Augustine, Ponoka
St. Benedict Chapel
St. Benedict Community
St. Boniface (German)
St. Charles, Edmonton
St. Clare, Redwater (at Ft. Sask., or at Gibbons)
St. Emerence, Riviere Qui Barre (at Villeneuve)
St. Emeric (Hungarian)
St. Francis of Assisi, Tofield
St. Francis Xavier, Camrose
St. Gregory the Great, Holden
St. Joachim (French) (19h00
St. John the Evangelist, Edmonton
St. Joseph, Killam (at Daysland)
St. Joseph, Wabamun (at Onoway)
St. Joseph's College
St. Jung Ha Sang (Korean)
St. Margaret Mary, Calmar
St. Margaret, Rimbey
St. Martin, Heisler (at Daysland)
St. Martin of Tours, Vegreville
St. Maria Goretti, Devon
St. Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf
St. Mary's, Red Deer
St. Michael the Archangel, St. Michael (at Ft. Sask.)
St. Rose of Lima, Onoway
St. Stephen, Lacombe
St. Stephen, Olds
St. Theresa, Ma-Me-O Beach - n/a
St. Thomas d'Aquin (French)
St. Vital, Beaumont
Vital Grandin Chaplaincy (Latin Mass Community of Edmonton)