Our Lady of Grace/St. Pius X Parish
8 college street K0C1M0 Ingleside, ON, Canada

Alleluia He is risen!!!

Stations of the Cross in Our Parish on the Good Friday. It was a huge success. Thanks to the youth of our parish!

Why did Our Blessed Lord use bread and wine as the elements of this memorial? First of all, because no two substances in nature better symbolize unity than bread and wine. As bread is made from a multiplicity of grains of wheat, and wine is made from a multiplicity of grapes, so the many who believe are one in Christ. Second, no two substances in nature have to suffer more to become what they are than bread and wine. Wheat has to pass through the rigors of winter, be ground b...eneath the Calvary of a mill, and then subjected to purging fire before it can become bread. Grapes in their turn must be subjected to the Gethsemane of a wine press and have their life crushed from them to become wine. Thus do they symbolize the Passion and Sufferings of Christ, and the condition of Salvation, for our Lord said unless we die to ourselves we cannot live in Him. A third reason is that there are no two substances in nature which have more traditionally nourished man than bread and wine. In bringing these elements to the altar, men are equivalently bringing themselves. When bread and wine are taken or consumed, they are changed into man's body and blood. But when He took bread and wine, He changed them into Himself. -Abp.Fulton J Sheen Life of Christ See more

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.

REFLECTION FOR THE 33RD SUNDAY OF THE YEAR A (Prov 31:10-13,16-18,20,26,28-31; 1 Thess 5:1-6; Matt 25:14-30) THEME: BEING RESPONSIBLE AND TRUSTWORTHY STEWARDS GOD CREATED US TO BE...Continue reading

The Church which Christ founded has not only preserved the Word He spoke, and the wonders he wrought; it has also taken Him seriously when He said: Do this for a commemoration of me. "Hence the Mass is to us the crowning act of Christian worship. A pulpit in which the words of our Lord are repeated does not unite us to Him; a choir in which sweet sentiments are sung brings us no closer to His Cross than to His garments. A temple without an altar of sacrifice is non-exist...ent among primitive peoples, and is meaningless among Christians." "And so IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THE ALTAR, AND NOT THE PULPIT OR THE CHOIR OR THE ORGAN, IS THE CENTER OF WORSHIP, FOR THERE IS REENACTED THE MEMORIAL OF HIS PASSION. Its value does not depend on him who says it, or on him who hears it; it depends on Him who is the One High Priest and Victim, Jesus Christ our Lord. FULTON J. SHEEN (CALVARY AND THE MASS)

I love this Saint and doctor of the Church!