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Jubilee Year 2025 Opening Mass
Join Archbishop Miller at Holy Rosary Cathedral on Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 11:00am for the Solemn Opening Mass of the Jubilee Year 2025.
This Holy Year, celebrated every 25 years, invites the faithful to embrace pilgrimage, deepen prayer, and renew relationships under the theme “Pilgrims of Hope”.
Ongoing information
Door is Open - Food & Clothing Drive
This September, our team at St. Mark’s Parish is resuming the food & clothing collection for the Door is Open. The once/week delivery initiative will be pursued. The need continues to be great.
Thanks for St. Mark’s parishioners’ past generosity.
We humbly request that folks donate clean clothing & non-perishable food items as listed on the donation boxes at the church’s entrance.
We humbly ask to avoid making donations that are really not useable and are just being discarded.
Knights of Columbus - BC & Yukon State Council
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Enjoy the benefits of being a Knights of Columbus Member.
Go to: www.kofc.org/joinus
Promo Code: BLESSEDMCGIVNEY
Covenant House Vancouver
… exists, now more than ever, to support young people experiencing homelessness and to provide them with a source of relentless support, unconditional love, and absolute respect.
Your generosity provides food, shelter, and medical attention for some of the most vulnerable in our community.
Visit their website for more information
Permanent Diaconate Program
Now accepting applications. Contact deacons@rcav.org
This hugely successful conference which took place at the beginning of May, marks Pope Francis’ 10th year of Pope Francis in his Papal office.
The three plenary sessions will be available for viewing online soon.
Plenary Session #1: Thursday, May 4. 7pm-9pm
“Laudato Si’ in a Time of Global Disruption: Francis and Politics”, Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University.
Plenary Session #2: Friday, May 5. 3:30pm-5:00pm
“The Reform of the Church is not a Change but a Commitment”, Emilce Cuda, Secretary, Pontifical Commission for Latin America/Loyola University Chicago,
Birthright of Vancouver
Services provided: Friendship, Love & Hope Phone: 604-687-7223
Birthright’s focus is on loving the mother, reminding her that there is hope
and ensuring she is not alone.
We offer love, friendship, and support to women who are pregnant or think they may be pregnant. Birthright is available to women for as long as they need us. Birthright is interdenominational.
Visit – https://birthright.org/vancouver
Door is Open. A Roman Catholic Charity
Ongoing needs and information
The Door Is Open is a drop-in ministry that provides food, clothing, counselling, shelter services and referrals, a warm and safe environment in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a neighborhood recognized for the highest concentration of the poorest urban population in the whole of Canada.
Season after season, the challenges faced by the Door is Open charity do not fade away. In these days of summer, the Door is Open mission is making a special appeal for food donations.
Non-perishable food item:. Special requests are for pasta (macaroni and spaghetti mostly, but other kinds are accepted), pasta sauce & tuna cans. Due to health regulations the ministry cannot accept home baking & food that is past their expiry date.
Toiletries: Unopened toiletries such as:
Shampoo, bar soap, brushes/combs, sanitary products, toothpaste/toothbrushes
Clothing: Season-appropriate clothes for men and women.
We are grateful for all your donations which bring hope & healing to these most vulnerable people. Visit: https://www.thedoorisopen.ca/you-can-help/donate/
© 2017 Photography by Sarah Scali
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ROMERO HOUSE - Refugee Settlement Worker Program
An exciting & meaningful opportunity awaits university, college students & graduates from Canada, the United States and many other countries.
The Romero House worker program in Toronto offers a life transforming experience of living the joy of concretely integrating service & social justice.
It is a wonderful & unique program which gives young adults to do significant work, making a real difference in the lives of people in great need. Workers are given a great deal of responsibility, they grow & stretch humanly and spiritually in the process.
Of course, in this time of the covid19 pandemic & in consultation with public health, we have adjusted our ways of working with our residents & off-site clients in ways to ensure the health & safety of everyone in the community.
This time of a disrupted economy when graduates are finding fewer employment opportunities, we believe that our worker program is a safe & meaningful way to spend a year in the context of a supportive community.
Contact Harold Wright at workerprogram@romerohouse.org
Website: www.romerohouse.org
