In this Update:
† Regional Reconciliation Service at Divine Infant
† Holy Week Schedule
† Donate an Easter Lily
† Diocesan Wedding Anniversary Mass 2025
† Good Friday - Public Way of the Cross
† Hike for Life
† Rosary for Vocations
† Divine Mercy Chaplet and Novena
† St. Faustina's 'Tips of Wisdom'
† St. Faustina web page for Mass and Prayer Intentions
https://stfaustina.ca/
Mass Requests & Sanctuary Lamp
Request forms are available at the entrance to the Church or click on https://bit.ly/4gK5GcN
Associated costs - Mass Intentions ($15) / Sanctuary Lamp ($5 per week). For further inquiries or to reserve the closest available date/time, please contact bulletin@stfaustina.ca
phone: 613-833-0207
Tomorrow, Wed. April 9th from 7:00 pm. All are welcome to attend this lenten service.
Donate an Easter Lily
With Easter coming we are once again asking parishioners if they would like to donate an Easter Lily in memory of a loved one.
Lilies can be dropped off at the church before or after any weekend or weekday mass starting Saturday April 12th until Thursday April 17th.
Thank you!
Diocesan Wedding Anniversary Mass 2025 -
Will be celebrated for those celebrating 60 (or more), 50, 40, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 & 5 years of marriage in 2025 at Notre Dame Cathedral on Sunday, May 4, 2:30 pm. The registration form is now available at https://forms.office.com/r/jpBDLwD0Kg. Please register before Easter to ensure your place!
For questions, please contact Annmarie at annmarie.brown@ottawacornwall.ca.
Good Friday - Public Way of the Cross in the streets of Rockland, April 18th, 2025
Participants are asked to gather at St Patrick Elementary School (1001 Heritage Dr.) for 9:30am. The procession from the school to Très-Ste-Trinité church will begin around 10:00am. There will be shuttle services between the school and the church before and after the procession. In case of rain, all will be cancelled.
Action Life's Annual 'Hike for Life'
This year's event occurs on Saturday April 26th starting from St. Theresa's Catholic Church, 95 Somerset Street W Ottawa.
Darcy & Darlene Dalton are asking for sponsors to support this worthy cause. Sponsor sheets and envelopes will be at the back of the church. A tax receipt will be made available for donations of over $20. Your contribution can be left in the collection basket during mass or at the back of the church in an envelope labelled 'Hike for Life'.
All are welcome to join in the walk and share the fun with your family, other parishes and friendly hikers. Thank you for your support.
You are invited to pray the rosary for vocations to the priesthood, religious life and marriage immediately following the 9:00 am Mass every 3rd Wednesday of the month. Our next opportunity is Wed. April 16th.
Come and join us for Mass and the Rosary!
On Sunday April 27th we celebrate the 1st Sunday after Easter, otherwise known as Divine Mercy Sunday. Jesus asked of Saint Faustina, that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be preceded by a Novena to the Divine Mercy that would begin on Good Friday.
Therefore, beginning on Good Friday, we will pray the Novena and Divine Mercy Chaplet each day after Mass during the 9 days leading up to the feast.
About the Divine Mercy Novena
In her diary, Saint Faustina wrote that Jesus told her:
"On each day of the novena you will bring to My heart a different group of souls and you will immerse them in this ocean of My mercy ... On each day you will beg My Father, on the strength of My passion, for the graces for these souls.
I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy.
The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment.
On that day all the divine floodgates through which grace flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet... It is My desire that (The Feast of Mercy) be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy." (Diary 699)
In all, St. Faustina recorded 14 revelations from Jesus concerning His desire for this feast.
Divine Mercy Sunday typically involves large numbers of people gathering to celebrate Holy Masses at which God’s mercy is proclaimed by the priests or deacons.
To fittingly observe the Feast of Mercy, we should:
1. Celebrate the Feast on the Sunday after Easter (or its Vigil).
2. Sincerely repent of all our sins.
3. Place our complete trust in Jesus.
4. Go to Confession, preferably before the Feast.
5. Receive Holy Communion on the day of the Feast (or its Vigil).
6. Venerate the Image of The Divine Mercy.
7. Be merciful to others, through our actions, words, and prayers on their behalf.
To receive the Extraordinary Graces of this Feast, the only condition is to receive Holy Communion worthily on Divine Mercy Sunday (or the Vigil celebration) by making good confession beforehand and staying in the state of grace and trusting in His Divine Mercy.
A Plenary Indulgence can be obtained by fulfilling the usual conditions.
Please consider your participation in this devotion.
A moment later, I again saw the child (who was beautiful beyond words and resembled the Child Jesus...424) who had awakened me. It was of wondrous beauty and repeated these words to me, True greatness of the soul is in loving God and in humility. I asked the child, “How do you know that true greatness of the soul is in loving God and in humility? Only theologians know about such things and you haven’t even learned the catechism. So how do you know?” To this He answered, I know; I know all things. And with that, He disappeared.
Diary - Divine Mercy in My Soul #427
Courtesy of Josiane
