News from Catholic Missions In Canada

Volume 3, Issue 6: June 2011

Catholic Missions In Canada E-Newsletter

Greetings!

Jesuits: 400 years in Canada

Over the many years, the Jesuit order founded numerous missions and parishes and schools across the country.

We should not let this part of the year 2011 pass without observing an important anniversary. Four hundred years ago, on May 22, 1611, Pentecost Sunday, two Jesuit priests, Father Pierre Biard and Father Enemond Massé arrived at Port Royal in Acadia, at what is now part of Canada. Read more...

Yours in Christ,

Rev. Philip J. Kennedy

President

Catholic Missions In Canada

IN THIS ISSUE

Tastes of Heaven 2011 Photos

Rural diocese takes on adult faith education

'The time of our lives'

A funeral in the North

Tastes of Heaven 2011 Photos

Catholic Missions In Canada's Tastes of Heaven Gala was held on

May 5, 2011

at the Paramount Event Centre, Woodbridge, Ontario.

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Rural diocese takes on adult faith education

BY MICHAEL E. AVERYT

'Our parishes are relatively small, yet many people in our communities hunger to learn more about their faith, to deepen their prayer life'

And again he said, "To what should I compare? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened." (Luke 13:20 f.) Read more....

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'The time of our lives'

BY CAROLYN GIRARD

Movement attracted more than 4,000 young volunteers who devoted a year or more of their life to support a school system.

Most pioneers of the Frontier Apostolate remember their experience like it was yesterday. Most of them were barely out of university, or in the thick of their early career, when an opportunity in Canada's Northwestern mission diocese beckoned them to leave everything behind.