Mass Times
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REGULAR WEEKEND MASSES Location of the Following Masses Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Academy Gym 3100A Stewart Creek Drive Saturday Mass 7:00 pm Sunday Mass 10:00 am WEEKDAY MASSES Location of the Following Masses Office: Unit 108, 104 Kananaskis Way (Same building as the Canmore Registry) Monday - No Mass Tuesday - 6:30 pm Wednesday - 12:15 pm Thursday - 12:15 pm Friday - 8:30 am SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays at Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Academy from 6:00 to 6:45 pm., first door at the right upon entering the gym. Also, confessions will be heard at the parish office on Tuesday night 5:30 to 6:15 pm or by appointment. ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Wednesdays from 12:40 to 1:00 pm at the parish office, after the 12:15 pm mass. |
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Spiritual Reflections From a Priest in the Rockies
With the wondrous solemnities of Christmas, Epiphany and Our Lord's Baptism having passed, we once again move into Ordinary Time, which will last until early March when we will begin our Lenten Fast and pilgrimage to the glory of Easter Sunday. There is a temptation to think of these coming weeks of Ordinary Time as a mere intermission before Lent and Easter and as such we can pay little attention to the Readings we will see in the coming Sundays.
But this time of the liturgical year is a valuable one to consider the ordinary day to day life that Jesus Christ would have lived. Those quiet years in Nazareth, working, praying and living with His family, made up the majority of our Lord's 33 years upon this earth. To the best of our knowledge, He did not perform miracles or offer great sermons or teachings in those Nazareth years. Rather, He spent them quietly and humbly living like those around Him, but in doing so taught them an important lesson: That in our ordinary day to day activities, we can perform them simply because they need to be done, or we can see them as moments we are in God's presence and as such are an opportunity to sanctify these activities and offer them up to God.
As a wise old priest once noted, you can peel potatoes simply because they need to be peeled for dinner or you can peel them in God's presence, offering up this act of service to His glory and thereby be sanctified by peeling those potatoes! The choice is ours: to do these simply daily tasks because they need to get done or to do them for God's glory and by doing so be made more and more holy as He is Holy.
Our Mother will shows us how to live in this way, teaching us to do whatever the Lord tells us, and like those wedding guests who ran of wine, be always looking out for what is best for us since we are her beloved children.
In Jesus through Mary,
Fr. Nathan Siray
"For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy." St. Therese of Lisieux
With the wondrous solemnities of Christmas, Epiphany and Our Lord's Baptism having passed, we once again move into Ordinary Time, which will last until early March when we will begin our Lenten Fast and pilgrimage to the glory of Easter Sunday. There is a temptation to think of these coming weeks of Ordinary Time as a mere intermission before Lent and Easter and as such we can pay little attention to the Readings we will see in the coming Sundays.
But this time of the liturgical year is a valuable one to consider the ordinary day to day life that Jesus Christ would have lived. Those quiet years in Nazareth, working, praying and living with His family, made up the majority of our Lord's 33 years upon this earth. To the best of our knowledge, He did not perform miracles or offer great sermons or teachings in those Nazareth years. Rather, He spent them quietly and humbly living like those around Him, but in doing so taught them an important lesson: That in our ordinary day to day activities, we can perform them simply because they need to be done, or we can see them as moments we are in God's presence and as such are an opportunity to sanctify these activities and offer them up to God.
As a wise old priest once noted, you can peel potatoes simply because they need to be peeled for dinner or you can peel them in God's presence, offering up this act of service to His glory and thereby be sanctified by peeling those potatoes! The choice is ours: to do these simply daily tasks because they need to get done or to do them for God's glory and by doing so be made more and more holy as He is Holy.
Our Mother will shows us how to live in this way, teaching us to do whatever the Lord tells us, and like those wedding guests who ran of wine, be always looking out for what is best for us since we are her beloved children.
In Jesus through Mary,
Fr. Nathan Siray
"For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy." St. Therese of Lisieux
Homilies
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