Upcoming Courses & Events
Blessing of Throats
The Blessing of the Throats in honour of St. Blaise will occur during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at noon in St Mary Magdalene.
Blessing of Throats
The Blessing of the Throats in honour of St. Blaise will occur during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at 7 pm in St Francis de Sales.
Welcoming in the New Year
Night Prayer & Benediction
Starts at 11:15 pm with an examination of conscience, ending with Benediction at midnight.
Christmas Eve Mass
Children's Nativity Mass
Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord, Jesus Christ
Confessions for Christmas
After confession, says St. Chrysostom, a crown is given to penitents.
St. John Chrysostom
Confessions for Christmas
The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and the ruin of souls.
St. Benedict Joseph Labre
Confessions for Christmas
St. Ambrose says of the two conversions that, in the Church, “there are water and tears; the water of Baptism and the tears of repentance.”
St. Ambrose (CCC 1429)
Confessions for Christmas
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
St. Augustine
Confessions for Christmas
A humble confession displeases Satan and, if he could, he would make you omit Holy Communion.
Imitation of Christ
Confessions for Christmas
“Confession is an act of honesty and courage – an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.”
St John Paul II
Confessions for Christmas
“In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.”
St Augustine (354-430)
Confessions for Christmas
There is more mercy in God… then there are sins in us.
Saint Tikhon (1724-1783)
Confessions for Christmas
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession, there is a chance for mercy.
St. Isidore of Seville
Confessions for Christmas
“Our Lord himself I saw in . . . this venerable sacrament. I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter, at the touch of the divine messenger.”
St. John Bosco
