Our Lady Of Grace Church
15347 Yonge Street L4G 1N7 Aurora, ON, Canada

Blessing of the new Church bell today! Thank you Father Frank for a beautiful impromptu ceremony

Blessing of the new bell at our Lady of Grace Church update: We were just informed that unfortunately the bell did not arrive today. The blessing that was planned for Wednesday August 5th at 7:30 am will not happen at the scheduled time. Please share this information with any parishioners you know who were planning to attend.

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Hello fellow parishioners! I hope you are well. I wanted to thank all of you for your generosity in your support of our two fundraisers this spring. Both were very successful and raised lots of funds for our charities- the Aurora Food Pantry, the ABLE Network and the Rose of Sharon Annual Scholarship. The Mother’s Day online raffle raised $1750 for the Aurora Food Pantry and the Father’s Day raffle raised $1500 $500 for the scholarship and $1000 for the ABLE Network. ... Have a safe and happy summer! As always, we welcome women of all ages to join our CWL. Feel free to contact me if you want more info at [email protected] Cheers, Lori Thompson President CWL, OLG

CWL FATHER’S DAY RAFFLE WINNERS! We had a fantastic result for our raffle and I am thrilled to announce our winners. 1st Prize - Caroline Berryman ($100 Apple, $50 LCBO, $25 President’s Choice) ... 2nd prize - Jeff Pearson ($50 Amazon, $50 Petro Canada $50 Home Depot, $10 President’s Choice) 3rd prize - Patricia Leeson ($50 LCBO, $50 Best Buy, $50 Canadian Tire, $10 President's Choice) 4th Prize - Lydia Ridd ($50 Amazon, $50 Ultimate Dining, $50 Home Depot) Congratulations to the Winners! Thank you all SO much for buying tickets. We raised $1500 for our two charities the Rose of Sharon (Annual Scholarship) and the ABLE Network. We hope all the fathers, grandfathers, stepfathers, uncles - and all those good men in our lives had a wonderful weekend! God Bless, Lori Thompson President CWL, OLG

This Saturday 9:00 am to Saturday November 28th 4:00 pm! Don’t miss it!

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Corpus Christi Sunday The Body of Christ. Amen. Last week we celebrated the unity of God in three persons on Trinity Sunday. Today we have another feast centred on the mystery and power of unity.... Today we focus on the Eucharist. In this time of Covid 19 there is the often expressed longing of people to return to communion. They will tell you that they watch mass on tv or the computer all the time, but what they miss is receiving communion. St. Thomas Aquinas, said that first grace of Eucharist is unity. This is not a singular unity. The first unity is what it does to us a believing people. In our sharing in communion we become one body in Christ. We live today what Paul taught the early church, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. In the communion rite at mass which begins right after the Eucharistic prayer, the community prays together the Our Father, the prayer Jesus taught us to pray. Then we offer a sign of peace to those around us, for eucharistic communion becomes rather anemic if we do not hold a deep sense of unity with God’s people. Then we acknowledge God’s abounding grace that heals us and then we come forward to receive communion. People can miss the point that coming forward to receive communion is ideally a procession of God’s faithful people. We return to our seats, pray privately and together and are then sent out into the world to be the Body of Christ. The other aspect of unity is equally important. When the minister say to you, The Body of Christ, our amen is our assent, our yes to the proclamation. When we receive Christ we receive the fullness of God. We receive the Father and the Spirit as well as the Son. This sacramental encounter with Christ is also an encounter with the one who creates the universe and the one who sustains us and calls us forward. That could sit perfectly as an interesting idea, if we as Christians were strictly in the business of ideas. We are in the business of relationships and one relationship surmounts all others, that is our relationship with God. Eucharist is that core reality brought to human experience. When we are sent out into the world as the Body of Christ, we are also sent out as the advocates of creation and the worthy receivers of spiritual power. We do not proclaim ourselves to be the body of Christ as part of some club or a select group, rather we leave the church as the Body of Christ, with the deep and uncompromising willingness to create a better world. Our transformative power reaches into our homes, workplaces, neighbourhoods and parishes. The Body of Christ. Amen FF

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