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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
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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
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WELCOME FR. JOZEF VANO
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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

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5th Easter - Outdoor Catechesis to care for creation, pray and ponder a parable
5th Easter - Listening to The parable of the Seed with a friend
5th Easter - To Jesus Through Mary! Adjusting the flower garland before prayer
5th Easter - This 6-year-old brought our processional cross from the atrium, outside to ad
5th Easter - Sunflower seeds to be sown soon!
5th Easter - Dig a hole, drop a seed, cover, then water
5th Easter - We listened to the story of Pentecost, then lit candles representing the 7 gi
Easter Brings Hope
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Jesus Through Mary2
Jesus Through Mary3
Jesus Through Mary4
End of Season
We profess your resurrection
The Tomb
Family and friends have joined us to experience the atrium!
Flower Arranging
The Mystery of Life and Death
Receive the Light of Christ
Easter Week 3
Baptism2
The Last Supper
Baptism1
Funnel Pouring
Walls of Jerusalem
Regions of Israel
Divine Mercy
Divine Mercy Prayer Table
Empty Tomb
Caring for Creation5
Caring for Creation3
Caring for Creation4
Altar Practice
Caring for Creation2
Resurrection
3-Receiving the Light of Christ2
Pascal Candle
Chanting the Exultant
2-Receiving the Light of Christ
1-Liturgy of the Light
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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.

  1. 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.
     

  2. 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. 
     

  3. 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. 
     

  4. 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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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IMMACULATE IS A COMMUNITY
THAT FINDS JOY IN SERVICE TO GOD
AND OTHERS
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