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Christmas Mass Registration

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Our parish team wants to make sure our parishioners are able to attend Mass at St. Francis this Christmas. With the increasing number of parishioners joining us at weekend Masses (yay! Welcome back!) we believe it is important to have registration for each Christmas Mass:

  Christmas Eve – Friday December 24

      4:30 pm (FULL),   7:00 pm,   9:00 pm

  Christmas Day – Saturday December 25

      10:00 am (FULL)

To make everything simpler at these Masses we will be giving you a “ticket” you will show at the door on Christmas. Please visit, call or email the parish office to reserve your seats and get your “tickets”.

Wholistic Restoration Series

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Wholistic Restoration: A braided journey toward a more sustainable and reciprocal relationship with Mother Earth and each other.

Offered by the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, this four-part series will be presented by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners in ecology, land-based education, and research. Together, we will strive to unpack our diverse worldviews, the process of learning, and understanding the connections between humanity and nature. The discussions will guide us through the journey of re-evaluating personal attitudes and assumptions, and the process of decolonizing how we come to know and what we perceive as valuable. The journey includes the process of decolonizing our knowledge and view of nature, reconciliation with all our relations, how to care for the ‘Land’, and opportunities and pathways to work together and give back.

This webinar series will be presented via Zoom from 6:30-8pm, with time for questions at the end of each session. To register, there is a suggested cost of $30 for one session, $100 for all four, or whatever you are able to contribute.

Deadline to register for all four sessions is November 22.

Learn more and register here

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A Christmas of Fraternity

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With supply-chain issues forcing some of us to be more creative with our gift-giving this Christmas, perhaps it is a good time to really think about what we give to our loved ones. Can we do more with our gifts than simply fill another shelf? If we are already mindful of our gift-giving, maybe we are looking for new ideas to spice it up!

As a parish community let us strive to respond to the Cry of the Poor and the Cry of the Earth this Christmas, through a Christmas of Fraternity. Click the button below for great gifting ideas to make this Christmas special for your family and our community!