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To register for a guided tour, please click here. To financially support our parish, please visit the DONATE section of the parish website, mail donations to: Our Lady of the Rockies, 2 Silvertip Trail, Canmore, AB, T1W-2Z7, or bring them to the parish office Tue-Thur 9:00am-3:30pm and Friday from 9:00am-1:00pm. Click here for the current parish financials. Please scroll down this home page for spiritual reflections and homilies by Fr. Nathan. PRIVATE PRAYER AND DEVOTIONS The Shrine Church is open for private prayer and devotion at the following times: Tuesday-Thursday 9:00am-11:30am Friday 9:30am-12:30pm Due to Masses, Weddings and other Sacramental celebrations on the weekends, there are no scheduled times for private prayer and devotion, though if the church doors are open and no celebrations are taking place, you are welcome to visit the church. Out of courtesy to others, please observe reverent silence during these scheduled times of private prayer and devotion. ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Adoration will take place on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm with the Holy Rosary and time for silent contemplation. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Confessions will take place on Tuesday Evenings from 7:00 -7:45pm and by appointment. Please contact Fr. Nathan at frnsiray@gmail.com to arrange a time. Anyone requesting the celebration of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick and the Last Rites for the dying can contact Fr Nathan via the emergency parish line at 403-675-5044, please do not hesitate to do so! |
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Spiritual Reflections from a Priest in the Rockies
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Reflection for Friday July 3rd, The Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle
We usually remember St. Thomas for the doubts he had about Jesus' Resurrection and the profound encounter he had with the Crucified yet Risen Lord in being invited to place his hands in the Lord's riven wounds. Yet we should also remember those passing moments in the Gospel when St. Thomas expressed his willingness to follow Jesus to everywhere he went, even onto death, to proclaim the Good News of Salvation.
Despite his doubts, he did not forsake his vocation and in time brought the Gospel all the way to India, meaning the apostle who had the most vocal doubts about the Resurrection would be the one who would bring the Gospel to the furthest ends of the known world.
May St. Thomas console us then when we too have our moments of doubt, that if we bring them to the Lord and ask for his encouragement and healing, that he can make those doubts into a greater desire to live and proclaim the Good News to others.
I continue to invite you to please consider assisting our new shrine church by signing up not only to attend Mass but also to offer some of your time in a volunteer position to assure the Masses we have scheduled can take place. These volunteer positions are necessary for Mass to occur in this time to be in accord with the guidelines set forward by the Diocese of Calgary for the celebration of the Holy Mass during Phase 1 of the reopening of our province in the midst of this pandemic. All volunteers are guaranteed a chance to attend the Holy Mass they sign up for.
It will only take a small amount of your day to volunteer in this capacity, for example, helping to clean the church after Mass only takes about 15 minutes. But more than volunteering it is a way to offer an act of charity and service to Our Lord and His Holy Mother in assuring we can offer the Eucharist for the Glory of God and the spiritual nourishment of His People.
I invite you to take time today to make a Spiritual Communion, using the following formula or one of your own choosing:
My Jesus,
I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen."
St. Alphonsus di Liguori
In Jesus through Mary, Fr. Nathan
To watch Live-streamed Sunday and Weekday Masses from various parishes and at different times in the Diocese of Calgary, please click here
Reflection for Friday July 3rd, The Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle
We usually remember St. Thomas for the doubts he had about Jesus' Resurrection and the profound encounter he had with the Crucified yet Risen Lord in being invited to place his hands in the Lord's riven wounds. Yet we should also remember those passing moments in the Gospel when St. Thomas expressed his willingness to follow Jesus to everywhere he went, even onto death, to proclaim the Good News of Salvation.
Despite his doubts, he did not forsake his vocation and in time brought the Gospel all the way to India, meaning the apostle who had the most vocal doubts about the Resurrection would be the one who would bring the Gospel to the furthest ends of the known world.
May St. Thomas console us then when we too have our moments of doubt, that if we bring them to the Lord and ask for his encouragement and healing, that he can make those doubts into a greater desire to live and proclaim the Good News to others.
I continue to invite you to please consider assisting our new shrine church by signing up not only to attend Mass but also to offer some of your time in a volunteer position to assure the Masses we have scheduled can take place. These volunteer positions are necessary for Mass to occur in this time to be in accord with the guidelines set forward by the Diocese of Calgary for the celebration of the Holy Mass during Phase 1 of the reopening of our province in the midst of this pandemic. All volunteers are guaranteed a chance to attend the Holy Mass they sign up for.
It will only take a small amount of your day to volunteer in this capacity, for example, helping to clean the church after Mass only takes about 15 minutes. But more than volunteering it is a way to offer an act of charity and service to Our Lord and His Holy Mother in assuring we can offer the Eucharist for the Glory of God and the spiritual nourishment of His People.
I invite you to take time today to make a Spiritual Communion, using the following formula or one of your own choosing:
My Jesus,
I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen."
St. Alphonsus di Liguori
In Jesus through Mary, Fr. Nathan
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