News release Archdiocese announces expanded restrictions Edmonton, May 6, 2021 – Albertans are dealing with expanded restrictions that affect all faith communities in our province, for at least the next three weeks. The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton will continue to respect and implement any restrictions set by the provincial government…
One of my earliest memories of my mother takes place in our kitchen in Churchbridge, Sask. when I would have been three or four years old. Having baked a cake of one flavour or another, an inconsequential matter to me at my young age, she had completed the much more…
“The parish is a family friendly community church, with open doors for everyone and a lovely place to serve God and develop your faith.”
Seminarian Chris Pugh, is the editor of Exiit Qui Seminat – the newsletter of St. Joseph Seminary. He interviewed Chad Miciak who will be ordained to the transitional diaconate on May 17 at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Basilica. The ordination will be livestreamed. Miciak is studying to be a…
St Joseph has increasingly taken on a higher profile in the faith life of Catholics in Canada and around the world. Back in the 1600s, St. Joseph was named the patron saint of Canada. We see the name of St. Joseph frequently in Edmonton with the seminary, the college on…
This year’s Lac Ste Anne Pilgrimage is going online for the second year in a row. “This is a very sad and difficult decision to make,” Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith, the chair of the Lac Ste. Anne board of trustees, said in an April 23 statement. “COVID-19 remains with us,…
Student enrolment continues to rise, and with it the hope that Catholic education in Alberta will survive and thrive. “Choice in education matters to parents and they are choosing Catholic schools, so in the big scheme of things we can honestly say we are thriving,” said GrACE executive director Bonnie…
In the COVID era, there’s no news like science news — the fastest vaccine development in human history has been news all year. But public exposure of science has also exposed us to the dangers of half-understood or deliberately manipulated science on social media. Who can forget the Wisconsin pharmacist…
Consecration of the New Church of Our Lady of Peace, Innisfail 2nd Sunday in the Octave of Easter – Divine Mercy Sunday Homily [Acts 4: 32-35; Psalm 118; 1John 5: 1-6; John 20: 19-31] I would like to begin this homily by expressing my heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Fr.…
11 April 2021 Divine Mercy Sunday Dear Parishioners of St. Thomas More, With great joy, I announce to you the name chosen for the newest parish in the Archdiocese of Edmonton: Divine Mercy Parish. The Committee charged with planning for the new parish proposed this name as the community’s first…