Join us at our FREE traditional skating party at the West Vancouver Ice Arena. This is a great opportunity to come together as a community and celebrate the Christmas season with some fun! Refreshments will be provided. 9.45 - 11:45 am
As we prepare to welcome the New Year, we invite you to join us for a special New Year's Mass to reflect and give thanks. Blessings for a joyful and peaceful New Year ! Mass Schedule : New Year's Eve (Dec 31st) 4:30 PM New Year's Day (Jan 1st) 8:30 AM and 10:30 AM
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an annual ecumenical celebration taking place from January 20-31, 2025. Christians around the world are invited to pray for the unity of all Christians, to reflect on scripture together, to participate in jointly organized ecumenical services, and to share fellowship. You are invited to join one of several prayer services taking place throughout the lower mainland. Monday, January 20 6:30 p.m. St. Anthony’s Parish, West Vancouver —Service followed by a light meal, All are welcome! Tuesday January 21. 12:00 p.m. St. Ann’s Parish, Abbotsford 7:00 p.m. St. Peter’s Parish, New Westminster Wednesday, January 22 3:30 p.m. John Paul II Pastoral Centre, Vancouver. 5:30 p.m. St. Mark’s Parish, UBC Thursday, January 23 3:30 p.m. St. Joseph the Worker Parish, Richmond Friday, January 31 6:30 p.m. Sacred Heart Parish, Delta More information is available at: rcav.org/wpcu
Calling all altar servers! Whether you have altar served before or you want to start, come on Sunday, Feb 23 for a training session between the morning masses! (9:30 am to 10:15 am)
March 5th Mass Schedule 9:00 AM 6:30 PM Bring Last Year’s Palms! We invite all parishioners to bring in their blessed palms from last year to the parish office between Monday and Tuesday. We will be using them to make ashes for Ash Wednesday. Your participation helps us prepare for the season of Lent. Thank you!
Downtown Vancouver's streets are filled with people living in physical and spiritual poverty, with many lacking support and love. The annual SLEEP OUT invites everyone to become a part of a movement that can make a change. We invite you to join us in a movement of change by making a bold and courageous decision to join us in SLEEP OUT. You will be making a true sacrifice by experiencing what it's like to be homeless and spend one night outside in the cold. The reality is there are many people who do sleep on the street and experience the discomfort that we often forget about. Participants will be given a link to their own personalized page where they can ask their community to make a donation in supporting them to sleep outside for the night. The money raised will go directly to Catholic Street Missionaries and be used to bring resources to our homeless brothers and sisters in the streets of downtown Vancouver. SLEEP OUT - Friday March 7 through Saturday March 8 Register by February 28 at https://beholdvancouver.org/events/sleep-out
To support priests in their retirement years. Archdiocesan Collection First Sunday of Lent
To help the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace fight poverty in third-world countries and foster international justice. National Collection Fifth Sunday of Lent
Saturday April 12 Mass @ 4:30 PM and Sunday April 13 Mass @ 8:30 AM and 10:30 AM Join the celebration of Palm Sunday and Blessings of Palms. Palms will be provided prior to each mass. “...So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosana! Blessed is He who comesin the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!” (Philippians 3:8) Marking the beginning of Holy Week, Palm Sunday recalls and celebrates the day Jesus entered Jerusalem as Savior and King.As Jesus rode a donkey into the city, a large crowd gathered and laid palm branches and their cloaks across the road, giving Him royal treatment.
Holy Thursday April 17th Mass @ 7:00 PM + Adoration until 10:00 PM Good Friday April 18th 11:00 AM - stations of the cross for families 3:00 PM - veneration of the cross Holy Saturday April 19th Vigil Mass @ 9:00 PM + Reception following mass Easter Sunday April 20th Mass @ 8:30 AM and 10:30 AM
To support Christians in the Holy Land. National Collection Good Friday
Saturday April 19th @ 11:00 AM Come and join us for an Easter Blessing of Baskets upstairs. This tradition from the Middle Ages, started in Italy and Spain, and is now popular in Slavic countries, Poland, Germany and Austria. What to put in the basket? Eggs—symbol of life and Jesus’ tomb (can be painted or decorated), Meat—Jesus is the Lamb of God, Salt and Bread. You can also add something sweet, like a pastry or pie Following the blessing, come downstairs to the parish hall for a coffee and discussion with Konrad Kobielewski, vice president of the Canadian Polish Congress, on the background and future of the annual Polish Festival, an important North Shore tradition. Everyone is Welcome ! We hope to see you there.