According to the Church’s liturgical calendar, the feast held on Feb. 2 each year is in honor of the Presentation of the Lord. Some Catholics recall this day as the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary because such was the feast day named until the 1969 changes in the Church’s calendar. The…
January 1st, the day of New Year is the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God. On this day we commemorate that Our Lady gave birth to Jesus Christ, true God and true Man. In Canada this is a Holy Day of Obligation, meaning that for Catholics this is a day in which we must go…
Celebrate the birth of Our Lord at the Cathedral Mass Schedule: Chrsitmas Eve: Tuesday December 24: 5 PM, 8 PM and Midnight. The Midnight Mass will be celebrated by the Archbishop. Before the Midnight Mass at 11 PM there will be a Christmas Carol Concert Christmas Day: Wednesday December 25 8 AM, 9:30 AM, 11 AM, 12:30…
Immaculate Conception December 4 @ 7 PM 3778 W. 28th Ave. Vancouver Our Lady of Perpetual Help December 8 @ 2 PM 2465 Crown St., Vancouver Blessed Sacrament December 10 @ 7 PM 3040 Heather St., Vancouver St. Mark December 11 @ 7 PM 5935 Iona Drive, Vancouver St. Patrick December 11 @ 7 PM…
The Advent season is here… It focuses on expectation and it serves as an anticipation of Jesus Christ’s birth in our hearts at Christmas. The word advent is derived from the Latin word ‘adventus’ meaning anticipation. This is a translation of the Greek word ‘parousia.’ The Catholic Catechism (#524) speaks to us about the spiritual…
Christmas Eve: Monday December 24 5:10 PM, 8 PM, 12 Midnight (Christmas Concert at 11 PM) The Midnight Mass will be Celebrated by the Archbishop Christmas Day: Tuesday December 25 8 AM, 9:30 AM, 11 AM, 12:30 PM, 5 PM, 6:30 (Spanish), & 8 PM The 11 AM Mass will be celebrated by the Archbishop.
By Father Pablo Santa Maria “Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel’, which means, ‘God is with us.” “Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ your Son was made known by the message of…
Come and join us as we celebrate the birthday of Our Saviour! Christmas Eve: Saturday December 24: 5:10 PM, 9 PM, & 12 Midnight (Christmas Concert before Mass at 11 PM). Christmas Day: Sunday December 25: 8 AM, 9:30 AM, 11 AM, 12:30 PM, 5 PM, 6:30 PM (Spanish), & 8 PM.
By the Very Reverend Stanley Galvon, Rector of the Cathedral Part of our church’s Advent liturgy since the sixth century A.D., are verses known as the “O antiphons”. The writer drew seven titles of God from the Old Testament which express the people’s yearning for the coming of the Messiah. These days the O Antiphons…
Dear brother priests, deacons, seminarians, consecrated men and women, and lay faithful of the Archdiocese of Vancouver: Jesus entered our world to free us from the darkness of sin and to grant us the light of salvation. In the Child born of the Virgin Mary, God revealed his goodness and mercy in a definitive way….