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Heart to Heart: Issue #525

Date posted on December 15, 2023

CHRISTMAS 2023 Dear Friends, We will soon celebrate the great Solemnity of The Nativity of the Lord – Christmas. Already Christmas cards are in the mail, Christmas music fills the airwaves, and Christmas décor can be seen on, and in, our homes. Christmas gifts are being exchanged. Choirs are practicing Christmas music and parishioners are […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #524

Heart to Heart - Christmas Cheer at St. Joseph's, Hamilton

Date posted on December 8, 2023

THE CHRISTMAS SEASON was launched at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton, this week, when staff, executives and patients joined in the lighting of the Christmas tree and carol singing. Earlier in the week, a tree was lit at the West 5th campus as a patient from the Outpatient Program sang. The King Street campus will light […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #523

Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes

Date posted on December 1, 2023

THE STATUE OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES, once located at Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Mohawk Road in Hamilton, has been transferred to the new St. Catherine of Siena Church on Rymal Road in Hamilton. The grotto, a long-time place of pilgrimage and prayer for many parishioners, again welcomes pilgrims from across the Diocese! […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #522

Come Home for Christmas

Date posted on November 24, 2023

MOUNT MARY RETREAT CENTRE IN ANCASTER is sponsoring a COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL, December 3rd, from 1 to 4 p.m.  The FREE event has fun and festivities for the whole family, and includes music, cocoa, cookie decorating, magic show, face painting, balloon animals, local artisans, Christmas ornament painting, a visit from Santa, and beautiful […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #521

Heart to Heart: World Day of the Poor

Date posted on November 17, 2023

THE SEVENTH ANNUAL WORLD DAY FOR THE POOR is celebrated in Catholic parishes worldwide this weekend – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Pope Francis published a special message for the day, referencing an excerpt from the Old Testament Book of Tobit 4:7: “Do not turn your face from anyone who is poor”. In the letter […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #520

Papal Honours 2023

Date posted on November 10, 2023

PAPAL HONOURS have been granted by Pope Francis to several recipients in the Diocese of Hamilton. The honours will be conferred by Gerald Cyprian Cardinal Lacroix, Primate of Canada and Archbishop of Quebec, at the Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King, on Sunday, November 26th, Feast of Christ the King. The ceremony that begins at […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #519

Synod: Letter to the People of God

Date posted on October 27, 2023

THE SYNOD PARTICIPANTS at the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops have published a letter to the People of God as the event concludes. Gathered together in Rome since September 30th, the Synod ends this weekend. The letter summarizes the experience of the Synod and gives an insider’s view of what occurred […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #518

Date posted on October 20, 2023

FOSTER PARENTS ARE ESSENTIAL to the caring ministry of the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton (CCASH)! The Agency is celebrating the important service of Foster Parents at a gala dinner at Michelangelo’s Banquet Centre tonight. Important anniversaries of service will be honoured and retiring foster parents will be thanked. It is always an emotionally […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #517

St. Catherine of Siena Parish

Date posted on October 13, 2023

EXCITEMENT IS GROWING AT ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCH, HAMILTON, as workers complete the final touches on the new church on Rymal Road, Hamilton! Final Masses are being celebrated this weekend in the churches of the two parish communities (Our Lady of Lourdes and Corpus Christi) that were united in the new parish several years […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #516

Heart to Heart: St. Jerome's University Feast of St. Jerome Annual Fundraiser

Date posted on October 6, 2023

 ST. JEROME’S UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES ITS ANNUAL “FEAST” NEXT SATURDAY, October 14th. This year’s feast marks Waterloo University at 100, and St. Jerome’s at 200! The celebration of Mass in Notre Dame Chapel, begins at 5:00 p.m., followed by a reception and dinner in the Atrium. The event is an important fundraiser for student scholarships – […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #515

150th Anniversary of the Death of Bishop John Farrell

Date posted on September 22, 2023

THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF BISHOP JOHN FARRELL, first Bishop of Hamilton, is marked next Tuesday, September 26th. He died in 1873 at the age of 53. Among other pastoral efforts, Bishop Farrell was dedicated to building a strong Catholic school system. By the end of his tenure, twenty-six Catholic schools had been […]

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Heart to Heart: Issue #514

New flooring at the Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King

Date posted on September 15, 2023

THE NEW FLOORING in the Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King is complete. Masses will be celebrated upstairs once again this weekend following a closure of three-and-a-half months. Sincere thanks to the men who spent much of that time “on their knees” laying the tiles and carpet and moving heavy pews from one side of […]

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