Friday, May 10, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
March for Life - May 9, 2024 - Videos
Crowd Gathering on Parliament Hill
Returning to Parliament Hill
Marchers Singing O, Canada
March for Life - May 9, 2024 - Photos and Videos
Mass at Saint Patrick Basilica
Videos
Homily Terrence Prendergast
Bishop Emeritus
( so beautiful )
Doxology and Great Amen
Photos
Lunch
Parliament Hill
March for Life - Candelight Vigil - May 7, 2024
I met Barb at the Rideau Centre and we walked over to Saint Theresa Catholic Church for Mass at 7:30. Archbishop Yvan Presided gave the most beautiful homily. I hope I can find it somewhere so I can share it with you. Deacon Guy and Darcy provided the music beginning with a Hymn to Our Lady of Guadalupe and later, during the Preparation of the Gifts " I will never Forget you". It was reminiscent of the Pilgrimage of Pro-Life Masses. Thank you guys!
I took a short video of the final blessing below
After the final hymn, "Lord Jesus of you I will Sing as I Journey " we were each given a candle and passed the flame to one another and then processed to the Human Rights Monument.
As we were leaving the Church Barb and I met Francis Barrett our long-time friend and pro-Life hero who was standing at the back of the church. Frank age 90 took the bus from his home at the Rockliffe Residence. God bless you, Frank
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The Nigeria Igbo Catholic Community of Ottawa - First Anniversary - Pro Life Mass - Fifth Anniversary
The Story of the Nigeria Igbo Catholic Community Ottawa-Gatineau (NICCO)
In the late summer of 2008, a group of young Igbo Catholic Carleton University students including Adaku Ojiaku (daughter of Mrs. Bernadette Ojiaku) attended the Igbo Catholic Church in Toronto. The event left a huge impression on the students that upon her return to Ottawa, Adaku asked her mother why there was no Igbo Church in Ottawa.
to continue https://www.igbomass-ottawa.ca/history/
-First Anniversary -
The Nigerian Igbo Catholic Church of Ottawa
February 27, 2011
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church,
Ottawa ON, Canada
Documentay Ike Nnebe
Documentary on the Igbo Katolik Church in Ottawa, Canada
Video - Slideshow of photos I took
PRO-Life IGBO Mass
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
April 24th 2014
click here for photos and videos
Fifth Anniversary
The Nigerian Igbo Catholic Church of Ottawa
Sunday, June 28, 2015, 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church,
Ottawa ON, Canada
Videos by Paul Lauzon and Maureen Ward
Entrance Procession
Liturgy of the Word
Homily Bishop Christian Riesbeck
Creed and Prayers of the Faithful
Offertory and Preparation of the Gifts
Eucharistic Prayer
Communion
Blessing and Dismissal
Blessing and Dismissal
Slide Show of Photos and Videos
The Reception
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Prayer to Our Lady of Kibeho
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Word,
Mother of all those who believe in him,
and who welcome him into their life,
we are here before you to contemplate you.
We believe that you are among us,
like a mother in the midst of her children,
even though we do not see you with our bodily eyes.
We bless you, The Sure Way that leads us to Jesus the Saviour,
for all the favours which you endlessly pour out upon us,
especially, that, in your meekness, you were gracious
enough to appear miraculously in Kibeho, just when our
world needed it most.
Grant us always the light and the strength necessary to
accept, with all seriousness, your call to us to be converted,
to repent, and to live according to your Son’s Gospel.
Teach us how to pray with sincerity, and to love one
another as he loved us, so that, just as you have requested,
we may always be beautiful flowers diffusing their pleasant
fragrance everywhere and upon everyone.
Holy Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows,
teach us to understand the value of the cross in our lives,
so that whatever is still lacking to the sufferings of Christ
we may fill up in our own bodies for his mystical Body,
which is the Church.
And when our pilgrimage on this earth comes to an end,
may we live eternally with you in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Imprimatur: Gikongoro, the 25th of March, 2006
Augustin Misago-Bishop of Gikongoro
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Urgent Appeal of Our Mother of the Word - Bishop Scott McCaig C.C.
The Urgent Appeal of Our Mother of the Word - Bishop Scott McCaig C.C.
Bishop Scott’s article is in the Fall 2011 edition of the Companions of the Cross newsletter.
While serving in the school dining
room Alphonsine heard a voice calling to her: “My daughter.” When she turned to
the voice, she was enveloped in the vision of a woman she describes this way:
“She had a seamless white dress and also a white veil on her head. Her hands
were clasped together on her breast, and her fingers pointed to the sky... I
could not determine the color of her skin, but she was of incomparable beauty.”
Alphonsine asked her, “Who are you?” and the woman replied: “I am the Mother of
the Word … I have come to calm you because I have heard your prayers. I would
like your friends to have faith, because they do not believe strongly enough.”
By March 2nd 1982, two other students
from the school - Nathalie Mukamazim- paka and Marie Claire Mukangango (who was
initially a great skeptic and opponent of the first two visionaries) were also
having apparitions of Mary. Signs and wonders abounded, and Our Lady brought
messages from heaven that would have momentous consequences for Rwanda and the whole
world!
On June 29th, 2001 the local Bishop,
Augustin Misago of Ginkongoro, presented his declaration on the authenticity of
the apparitions. A few days later he announced his declaration publically,
saying, “Yes, the Virgin Mary did appear in Kibeho on Nov.28, 1981,” and then
over “the course of the following six months.” On July 2nd of the same year,
the Holy See officially released this declaration, thereby approving the
apparitions as worthy of belief. To my knowledge, the visions in Kibeho are the
latest Marian apparitions to receive official recognition by the Church.
Other children in Kibeho had also
claimed apparitions of Jesus and Mary, but the bishop’s theological commission
determined that the essential message of the apparitions was given to the first
three visionaries. Therefore, the approval extended only to the apparitions of
Alphonsine, Nathalie, and Marie-Claire. Investigations into the other
visionaries may be taken up sometime in the future.
Many people who have heard of these apparitions are aware that Our Lady warned of great dangers to the people of Rwanda. Many have heard that Our Lady described with startling accuracy the events of the ethnic genocide that engulfed that country some 13 years later. But what many people do not know is that Our Lady also made an urgent appeal to the whole world! She brought messages of maternal love and warning that speak directly to each of us in our own countries and our own lives. It is these messages that we would do well to consider closely.
The diocese of Ginkongoro, where the
apparitions occurred, has summarized the essential message in ten points. With
a few added explanatory notes, a few grammatical corrections, and a bit of
necessary editing - this is the list of the essential elements of the message
of the Mother of the Word at Kibeho
1. An urgent call to repentance and to the conversion of hearts: “Repent, repent, repent!” “Convert your heart while there is still time.”
2. A diagnosis of the moral state of the world: “The world is very unwell.” “The world races to its loss, it risks falling into the abyss, which means it will be immersed in innumerable and unceasing tragedies. The world is in rebellion against God. Too many sins are committed in it. There is neither love nor peace.” “If you don’t repent and don’t convert your hearts, you will all fall into the abyss.”
3. The Virgin’s deep sadness: The seers were really surprised to see her weeping on August 15th, 1982 (the apparition wherein she predicted the genocide and showed the visionaries what it would look like). The Mother of the Word is strongly afflicted because of the incredulity and the impenitence of human beings. She complains about our bad behaviour characterized by dissolution of morality, dissensions, complaisance in evil and continual disobedience to the commandments of God.
4. “Faith and unbelief will come unexpectedly.” This is one of the so-called mysterious words said by the Virgin to Alphonsine at the beginning of the apparitions, with a request to repeat it to humankind.
5. Redemptive suffering: This theme is one of the most important in the apparitions of Kibeho, especially for Nathalie Mukamazimpaka. For a Christian, suffering, otherwise unavoidable in this life on earth, is an obliged path to reach heavenly glory. The Virgin said to her seers, notably to Nathalie on May 15th, 1982: “No one gets to heaven without suffering.” Or “Mary’s child doesn’t separate with the cross” But suffering is also a means of expiating the sin of the world and to participate in the sufferings of Jesus and Mary for the salvation of the world. The seers have been invited to live this message in a concrete way, to accept suffering with faith and joy, to mortify themselves, and to renounce pleasures for the conversion of the world. Thus, Kibeho reminds us of the place of the cross in the life of the Christian and of the Church.
6. Pray unceasingly and without hypocrisy: Human beings don’t pray, and even among those who do pray many don’t pray properly. The Virgin asks us (through the seers) to pray a lot for the world, to teach others to pray, and to pray in the place of those who don’t pray. The Virgin asks us to put more goodwill into praying and to pray without hypocrisy.
7. Devotion to Mary is notably concretized by a regular and sincere recitationof the rosary.
8. The rosary of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary: The Seer Marie Claire Mukangango received revelations on this topic. The Virgin likes this rosary a great deal. Known in the past, it had fallen into oblivion. Our Lady of Kibeho wants it to be put in honor and spread in the Church. But this “rosary of sorrows” doesn’t replace the regular Holy Rosary.
9. The Virgin wants a chapel built in memory of her apparitions in Kibeho. This theme carries up from Alphonsine’s apparition on January 16th, 1982 and comes back repeatedly during that year especially by Nathalie, with new developments. (This chapel has been completed).
10. Pray unceasingly for the Church, because
strong tribulations are waiting it in the coming time: So said the Virgin to
Alphonsine, on August 15th, 1983, and on November 28th, 1983.
Our Lady of Kibeho is a matter of ‘private revelation’. As such they do not belong to the deposit of faith. The purpose of private revelations is not to improve or complete Christ’s definitive revelation but to help us live more fully by it in our time. And even though they have been recognized by the authority of the Church no one is required to believe them; just as no one is required to believe in the approved apparitions of Fatima or Lourdes. But guided by the Magisterium of the Church we are all called to discern carefully and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ to the Church! (See CCC #67)
As we meditate on these extraordinary messages, I pray that all hearts will be moved to a more fervent following of Jesus, a deeper love and devotion to the Mother of the Word, and a more courageous embracing of the Cross for the protection of the Church and the salvation of the world!
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Fr. Scott McCaig (Now Bishop Scott McCaig)
the Companions of the Cross.
He was ordained in 1995.
Marian Devotional Movement presentation - Annunciation of the Lord Parish - Senior's Luncheon - April 17, 2024
Ministering to our seniors
Mass at Noon followed by a delicious luncheon in the Parish Hall
prepared by the Annunciation of the Lord Parish
THANK YOU, Rob and Shirley Hayes
Speakers
Dennis and Angelina Girard ( Marian Devotional Movement )
Mother Mary Bernadette and the Queenship of Mary Community
brought the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of the Cape
(a thread from Mary's veil)
Andrea Bator on the left and Hannah Timmons on the right.
Alain, Mama Mary, and Maureen
Thank you everybody
Thank you, Blessed Mother MARY
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