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Welcome to
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
ADORATION
MASS SCHEDULE
CONFESSION
1st Fridays
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
ROSARY
English: 20-minutes before each
weekend Mass on any
5th Sunday
Polish: 30-minutes before each
Sunday Mass (11:00 a.m.)
Tuesday to Friday 8:30 a.m. (English)
Saturday 4:30 p.m. (English)
Sunday 9:30 a.m.* (English)
Sunday 11:30 a.m.* (Polish)
* MASS TIMES CHANGING IN NOVEMBER, 2023 TO:
9:00 a.m. (English) and 11:00 a.m. (Polish)
Saturday 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Upon request: Anytime
Simply call 705-742-5466
and speak with a priest,
to set up a time.
For Masses on Tuesday to Friday, please enter in the side door (south side) directly off the parking lot, where the ramp is located.
MASS FROM THE CATHEDRAL
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YARD SALE—FOR OUR ELEVATOR FUND
Thank you to all who were involved with our annual yard sale…donors, bakers, table-getters, set-up crew, sellers, buyers, and over-night security. A special thank you to those who helped pack and clean up. The income from the raffle was $4,819 and from the yard sale was $3,364 (including approximately $770 from the bake table…wow) for a total of $8,183. This is about $1,600 more than last year and was made possible through the donation of all prizes by thoughtful parishioners. (See below)
2023 SUMMER RAFFLE - WINNERS
WELCOME FR. JOZEF VANO
Welcome to our new parish priest, Fr. Jozef Vano, born and raised in Slovakia.
He was ordained on June 15th, 1991, for the Diocese of Roznava. In 1998, he finished his postgraduate studies at the Pontifical University in Lublin, Poland, receiving a licentiate in canon law (JCL).
He came to Canada in January 1999 on an offer to work for the Slovak community in Hamilton. He later worked in Mississauga and Toronto.
In 2017, he started working in the Peterborough Diocese and served in Bowmanville (2017), Bracebridge (2018), and Kearney 2019-2023.
DIOCESAN PASTORAL PLANNING
RELEASE – MAY 28TH
Pastoral planning is a prayerful and participative process through which a Diocese characterizes itself as a particular community of faith by developing its own mission statement, its vision statement, assessing its current life, and shaping possibilities of the future. Through pastoral planning, the faithful provide in-put on key areas of pastoral concern: word, worship, community, service and temporalities.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough launched its Pastoral Plan 2023-2028 on Pentecost Sunday, 2023. The Pastoral Plan is the fruit of much work in parishes, online, in Catholic schools, and lay organizations throughout the Diocese. Most Reverend Bishop Miehm invites the clergy and faithful to participate through contemplation and action in the realization of this Plan.
Video Message from Bishop Miehm
CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD UPDATE
Our new children’s ministry was well received and enjoyed by many families. Focusing on the theme of the Good Shepherd and following the liturgical year, the Level 1 children all grew in their faith in many different ways.
Thank you to our volunteers: Ceara Corkery, Ksenia Gainey, Maura and Ella Baklinski and Mariana Mazzarolo.
Thank you Fr. Stephen for opening the parish doors and providing space to create an atrium environment
that nurtures the spiritual needs of children. The following gallery is from our Easter activities
Click image to see larger view
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With the easing of the Covid-19 situation worldwide and in our country, and upon the advice of the Assembly of the Catholic Bishop's of Ontario (ACBOs) medical consultant, I am authorizing that remaining Health Precautions may be removed at Masses in the Diocese of Peterborough effective immediately.
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Clergy and Extraordinary Ministers are no longer required to wear masks or use hand sanitizer at the distribution of Holy Communion. If however, a priest, deacon, or layperson is suffering from a respiratory illness, it would be strongly advisable for them to refrain from distributing Communion or to wear a mask when doing so.
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Distribution of Holy Communion from the chalice may resume. This means that concelebrants and deacons are no longer required to receive the Precious Blood by intinction.
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Please ensure that, at Sunday Masses, the presentation (procession) of the gifts is resumed in its fullness, including the Eucharistic elements of bread and wine.
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There are no more restrictions regarding the sign of peace, but people should be sensitive to the comfort level of other worshippers about handshaking.
Thank you for your diligent attention and care during the remarkable period of the pandemic that we have come through. Let us pray for ongoing improvement in the public health situation.
Yours in Christ,
Bishop Daniel Miehm
Fr. Jozef Vano
Parish Priest
Welcome to our new parish priest,
Fr. Jozef Vano, born and raised in Slovakia. He was ordained on June 15th, 1991, for the Diocese of Roznava. In 1998, he finished his postgraduate studies at the Pontifical University in Lublin, Poland, receiving a licentiate in canon law (JCL).
He came to Canada in January 1999 on an offer to work for the Slovak community in Hamilton. He later worked in Mississauga and Toronto. In 2017, he started working in the Peterborough Diocese and served in Bowmanville (2017), Bracebridge (2018), and Kearney 2019-2023.
He replaced Fr. Stephen at Immaculate Conception on June 28th, 2023.
Fr. Damian Smullen
Priest in Residence
Fr. Damian grew up in the town of Sligo, in Northwest Ireland.
He was ordained August 5th, 1988 and has been ministering as a priest in the Diocese of Peterborough for 34 years.
Currently, he is the Catholic chaplain to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre and the Wayside & Chesterton Academies in Peterborough.
We welcome him as he makes our rectory his home.
Fr. Peter Seabrooke
Retired Priest in Residence
Fr. Peter Seabrooke was baptized in Immaculate Conception Parish but raised in Sacred Heart Parish, both in Peterborough and was ordained to the priesthood on May 6th, 1972.
He served in parishes in Cobourg, Lindsay .Newcastle and Peterborough,in addition to serving as Youth Director, Director of Christian Family Ministries and Chancellor of Temporal Affairs.
He officially retired in September 2019 and resides at the Immaculate rectory while continuing to serve as chaplain of Mount St. Joseph.
