From the Pastor,
The Sept. 12th letter of the Pastoral Team, published in our Bulletin that weekend, noted our goal to discontinue the online Sunday Mass after Thanksgiving. The reasons given were:
* Many more people being fully vaccinated;
* More parishioners returning to in-person Sunday Mass;
* Lower rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths;
* Our increased efforts to maintain a safe environment;
* Technical difficulties we have always experienced;
* Wide availability of TV and online Masses;
Those reasons are still valid. We have discussed it with more parishioners and with those few who gave us feedback. Having studied our online statistics (attendance averaged 14 households/devices from both parishes for the past month), we will now implement that goal. We have discontinued the livestreaming of the Sunday Mass.
We realize this may be a disappointment to some, we re-emphasize what we said back in September: “It is time we re-think and re-emphasize Eucharist as the source and summit of our Christian life. We gather with Jesus and with one another as a community of believers, as disciples, as sisters and brothers. We are in communion with Him – and we receive Him in Holy Communion so that we can be in communion with one another as the body of Christ.”
We would like to assist the homebound by offering information about Sunday TV Masses:
Salt+Light TV: slmedia.org/live/waystowatch
Channel 240 or 224 Rogers Cable; Channel 654 Bell
6:30 am from the Chapel at Loretto Abbey in Toronto
8 am live from Mary Queen of the World Cathedral in Montreal, Quebec (in Engligh)
9:30 am Sunday Mass from Mary Queen of the World Cathedral (en Français)
11 am Rebroadcast of 8 am English Mass
VisionTV: visiontv.ca/shows/daily-mass/
Channel 27 or 237 Rogers Cable; Channel 1213 or 1161 Bell
8 am from the Chapel at Loretto Abbey in Toronto
JoyTV: joytv.ca/schedule/
Channel 173 Rogers Cable; Channel 656 or 1245 Bell
7:30 am
In addition to Sundays, several of these offer daily Mass on TV or online. For more information, check their websites and others you may know or already view. Suggestions can be sent to the office.
We encourage those wishing an in-home visit to received Holy Communion to contact the parish office and we will make arrangements. We continue to support one another and our community of faith in its journey of service to God and our brothers and sisters.
Blessings,
Fr. Brian