St. John the Baptist-Mission Church & St. Clement
162 Waterloo St. E2K 4T7 Saint John, NB, Canada

Unfortunately Mass tomorrow morning will be cancelled. The Bishop’s visit will be postponed until March 1st.

Tomorrow’s Mass is CANCELLED *Reminder that the Bishop will be attending our Service next week!

"Faith and love are like the blind man’s guides. They will lead you along a path unknown to you, to the place where God is hidden." St. John of the Cross

Unfortunately Mass tomorrow morning will be cancelled. The Bishops visit will be postponed until March 1st.

Tomorrows Mass is CANCELLED *Reminder that the Bishop will be attending our Service next week!

Our Christmas Eve service this year at Outflow will be at 7pm

We will be posting a quote from our Sunday readings every week! Sunday mass starts at 10am every week at 162 Waterloo Street

"The soul hungers for God, and nothing but God can satiate it. Therefore He came to dwell on earth and assumed a Body in order that this Body might become the Food of our souls." St. John Vianney

"Faith and love are like the blind mans guides. They will lead you along a path unknown to you, to the place where God is hidden." St. John of the Cross

"Our perfection does not consist of doing extraordinary things, but to do the ordinary well." St. Gabriel Possenti

"You change your life by changing your heart." St. Benedict of Nursia

"Others, again, seeing their own imperfections, become angry with themselves with an impatience that is not humble. They are so impatient with their shortcomings as if they would be saints in one day. Many of these make many grand resolutions, but, being self-confident and not humble, the more they resolve, the more they fall, and the more angry they become; not having the patience to wait for Gods time; this is also opposed to spiritual meekness. There is no perfect remedy for this but in the dark night. There are, however, some people who are so patient, and who advance so slowly in their spiritual progress, that God wishes they were not so patient." St. John of the Cross

"God writes his name on the soul of every man." Venerable Fulton Sheen

"In everything, whether it is a thing sensed or a thing known, God Himself is hidden within." St. Bonaventure

"Be one of the small number who find the way to life, and enter by the narrow gate into Heaven. Take care not to follow the majority and the common herd, so many of whom are lost. Do not be deceived; there are only two roads: one that leads to life and is narrow; the other that leads to death and is wide. There is no middle way." St. Louis de Montfort

Wishing everyone blessing on this feast of the holy guardian angels. Angels of God our guardians dear, to whom Gods love commits us here. Ever this day be at our side to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.

Our Lady of Walsingham will make he reappearance at Mass this Sunday having been brought from the old building. We will move to her to sing the Angelus. Ave Maria, gratia plena.

"Love Our Lady and make her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as often as possible." St. Padre Pio

"All our perfection consists in being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus Christ; and therefore the most perfect of all devotions is, without any doubt, that which the most perfectly conforms, unites and consecrates us to Jesus Christ. Now, Mary being the most conformed of all creatures to Jesus Christ, it follows that, of all devotions, that which most consecrates and conforms the soul to Our Lord is devotion to His holy Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to Mary, the more it is consecrated to Jesus." St. Louis De Montfort

"Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you." St. Thomas Aquinas

"The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers." St. Maximilian Kolbe

"The name of Jesus, pronounced with reverence and affection, has a kind of power to soften the heart." St. Philip Neri

"Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love." St. Julian of Norwich

"Great things are done through grace, and one attribute of the great things which grace enables the soul to do is their lastingness, their continuance, their permanent life and strength, as years roll past. I say, the works of grace are permanent." Bl. John Henry Newman

On this anniversary of the attack on the Trade Centre in New York, we pray for the souls of those lost in that tragedy and we pray for all who continue to grieve and live with the physical, mental and emotional consequences of that day. Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord our God, that the souls of Thy servants and handmaidens, the memory of whom we keep with special reverence, and for whom we are bidden and are bound to pray, and the souls of all our benefactors, relatives and connections, and all the faithful, may rest in the bosom of Thy saints; and hereafter, in the resurrection from the dead, may please Thee in the land of the living. Through Christ our Lord. Amen

"Heaven could not span its Creator, but the faithful soul, and only it, becomes its dwelling place and seat, and it becomes so in virtue of charity of which the impious lack." St. Clare of Assisi

"The invitation to lift up our hearts at the most important part of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is an invitation by Jesus through the voice of the priest to give our hearts to the Father, as He gave His life for us. We prepare to make our hearts and lives a total self-gift to the Father as Jesus made Himself a total gift to the Father for us on the Cross." Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila

A marvellous story from Bishop Barron about prayer being a conversation between friends thus encouraging us to speak to God with honesty: "There was a lady who spent a long time in a Catholic hospital while her husband was dying, going through months and months of agony. Finally she goes outside and sees a statue of Mary. She starts picking up clots of dirt and throwing them at the statue in a rage. Security sees whats happening and starts to pull her back, but the hospital chaplain comes out and says, Dont stop her...shes praying."

"Three things are necessary to everyone: truth of faith which brings understanding, love of Christ which brings compassion, and endurance of hope which brings perseverance." St. Bonaventure

NOTICE: Due to flooding and water entry at Outflow, tomorrows Mass will be moved to the Oratory of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (15 Beach Drive, Rothesay) 10 am.... We pray that all are safe through this storm and that those seeking shelter this night will find some. Father Rylan

Mary is our pattern of Faith, both in reception and in the study of Divine Truth. She does not think it enough to accept, she dwells upon it; not enough to possess, she uses it; not enough to assent, she develops it; not enough to submit the Reason, she reasons upon it; not indeed reasoning first, and believing afterwards, with Zacharias, yet first believing without reasoning, next from love and reverence, reasoning after believing. -Bl John Henry Newman

"Mary was the most perfect among the saints only because she was always perfectly united to the will of God." St. Alphonsus Liguori

"If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also." St. John Chrysostom

"I never found anyone so religious and devout as not to have sometimes a subtraction of grace, or feel a diminution of fervor. No saint was ever so highly rapt and illuminated as not to be tempted sooner or later. For he is not worthy of the high contemplation of God who has not, for Gods sake, been exercised with some tribulation. For temptation going before is usually a sign of ensuing consolation. For heavenly comfort is promised to such as have been proved by temptation. To him that overcometh, saith our Lord, I will give to eat of the tree of life." Thomas Kempis

"Let us love the cross very much, for it is there that we discover our life, our true love, and our strength in our greatest difficulties." St. Maria de Mattias

A recommended read for anyone engaged with the New Evangelism: "To Light a Fire on the Earth" by Bishop Robert Barron and John L. Allen Jr.

"The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder . . . What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection." St. Padre Pio

For those interested in Silent Prayer, here is a method proposed by Jeremy Harrington, OFM from Franciscan Media: 1. Just sit down and, keeping your back straight but free, begin quieting your mind and your body by taking a few relaxing, deep breaths. Close your eyes if you wish. Centre your awareness on the silent and infinite presence of God within your heart. 2. Let the Spirit lead you beyond the noisy world of space and time and into the silent realm where God dwells as... the source and ground of your being. Centre your attention on the hushed point within you where the human touches the divine, where the branch (you) intersects with Jesus, the vine - where you and God are one and dwell in each other. 3. Let yourself sink into the silent immensity of God. Simply let your prayer be a silent being there with God. Without any need for thoughts and words, exchange quiet love with God for as long as you feel inspired to do so.