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…
A new church in southwest Edmonton is at least a decade away, but preparations are underway to build it to serve the growing neighbourhoods of that part of the city. There’s a committee of volunteers. The land has been purchased. There’s a website to raise money. And now there’s a…
A new church in southwest Edmonton is at least a decade away, but preparations are underway to build it. And now there’s a name: The Catholic Parish of Divine Mercy.
School chaplain – and Grandin Media columnist – Mike Landry has devoted much of the pandemic-challenged 2020-21 academic year introducing his students and staff in the Evergreen Catholic School Division to the, well, evergreen wisdom of the Bible. The resident of Stony Plain, who is also a musician, writer and…
Leonel Tobias is a parishioner at St. Mary’s church in Provost. He will receive the sacraments at this year’s Easter vigil after completing the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) program under the guidance of his pastor, Rev. Christopher Selvaraj Rayappan. Tobias talks about his family life, his journey…
“The Lord is Risen!” is the acclamation of all Christians at Easter. Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith said there’s a risk of taking for granted the message of extraordinary, sure hope that is contained in those words. Over the past year as we deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re looking for…