Join us on Monday December 31st, at 6 pm when we will have Solemn Vespers for the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God and to give thanks for the Year of Our Lord 2018. We will also chant the ‘Te Deum’ to give thanks for 2018. There is a plenary indulgence.
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Christmas Times at the Cathedral
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.
Ordination of Father Guy and Deacon Felix
On Saturday December 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, we celebrated an ordination in which two men were ordained: one to the diaconate and one to the priesthood. This is indeed a cause for great joy for the Church of Vancouver and for the Cathedral! Guy Zidago, originally from Ivory Coast was ordained a…
October 3rd Feast of the Dedication of Cathedral
The dedication of a church is meant to set apart a building for the divine worship of the Church. Almost everything we use in the worship of the Church is blessed and consecrated and taken out of the common and secular use to be used only for the worship of the Church: the sacraments, but…
BC Catholic article on the Cathedral
The BC Catholic is featuring an article on the Cathedral byJohn Paul Sonnen of Orbis Catholicus Travel. It’s a great story about our history. To read the article click here
Latin Mass at the Cathedral
You’re invited to join us for a Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form) at the Cathedral to commemorate the Martyrdom of St. John The Baptist on August 29. Mass will be celebrated by Fr. Pablo Santa Maria Mass begins at 7:00 PM
Statement on the Recent Revelations of Sexual Abuse in the Church
To the faithful of the Archdiocese of Vancouver: Over the past few weeks, a number of very serious accounts of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church have become public. Like you, I am devastated by these accounts of profound evil. What the victims of sexual abuse have endured has shaken me and broken my heart….
The Meaning of Holy Communion
With Corpus Christi coming up it is a good idea to remember the importance of Holy Communion for us Catholics. The Eucharist is the most important of the seven sacraments, because it is in this and in no other sacrament that we receive the very body and blood, soul and divinity of our Saviour, Jesus…
Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Saint Francis de Sales in his book, Introduction to the Devout Life, states that the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost was not an isolated event in the life of the Church. According to Saint Francis de Sales, the Holy Spirit continually sanctifies the Church as well as each of her…
Anniversary of the death of Archbishop Roussin
It has been three years since the death of Archbishop Raymond Roussin. He was 75, having lived 57 years as a member of the Marianist Order, an order founded in 1817 to educate poor children in post-revolutionary France. In 1970 he was ordained a priest after having earned a Theology Licentiate from the University of…