Christmas Emergency Contact If an emergency occurs from Dec. 25-Jan 2 please contact Mary Anne Penner @ 780-594-6428. Office hours Parish office will be open Dec. 18 -21 and it will be closed from 3 pm on December 21, 2017 thru to January 2. Office will reopen on January 3, 2018. Funeral We recommend to…
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St. Dominic is looking for volunteers to help with shoveling snow from the sidewalks this winter. Snow will be here shortly and we have only one volunteer to offered to help. Could you please consider helping with this ministry! Please call the parish office 780-639-3245 if you would be willing to help! Many hands might…
For those who have been reading information in the news about Catholic Education and it’s proposed curriculum on human sexuality, please see the following link for information: https://caedm.ca/PastoralScene/entryid/626/catholic-educators-set-record-straight-on-human-sexuality-education
In such a short period of time, life changed for the people of Fort McMurray. For the majority of us, we have no idea what they have gone through; to driving through the fire to reach safety, to leave their homes, schools, workplaces and their faith communities. So many have helped them with providing accommodations,…
My beloved people of St. Dominic and Assumption Parish, this is the Message I would like to leave with you, as I head back to my home place: Remember, “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you…
Suffering and pain are part of the human conditions. Christians feel and experience pain as do all other people; yet their faith helps them to grasp more deeply the mystery of suffering and to bear their pain with greater courage (The Rite of the Pastoral care for the Sick). Jesus showed great compassion for sick…
In every age God has been generous in giving special gifts of the Holy Spirit to certain men and women, according to the needs of the time and the place. In the 19th century, St. Vincent Pallotti one among those called by God for a unique apostolate. That was the time when the Church was…
In the context of this Sunday’s Gospel reading we are called to reflect on the theme ‘they have no wine’ for the wedding feast at Cana. We see Jesus, his mother and his disciples at a wedding. And it is not the religious ceremony but a wedding party. Jewish weddings of those days could last…
Ann Thomas tells this story of herself. She was at a garage sale with her friend Betty. Ann had just sorted through a tray of trinkets. Betty came up and asked, “Any luck?” “No!” said Ann. “It’s just a pile of junk. She stepped aside to let Betty see for herself. Betty took one look…
“There was once a wise woman travelling in the mountains who found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveller who was hungry, and she opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveller saw the precious stone and asked if she might give it to him. She did…