St. Peter Celestine Church is known for its fine building and its superb original interior décor
intact from 1892 – one of three churches in Canada known to retain Classic Italianate decoration.
Adoration, Confession 1st Sunday of the Month 8:15am – 8:45am.
Rosary (all other Sundays) 8:30am – 8:50am. Mass 9am.

November is the Month of the Holy  Souls

The Month of November is dedicated to the Holy Souls in purgatory who have died in the mercy of God.   They are traditionally Called the “Church Suffering” because they are truly suffering as they are going through purification in order to enter into Heaven.  The only way they an advance in this process of purification and reach the glory of Heaven is by the prayers and sacrifices that are offered on their behalf.  It is a great act of charity to add our loved ones by our offerings and is very pleasing to God.

Here are 6 things we can do to help the Holy Souls:

  1.  Holy Mass – The greatest gift the Church possesses is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus in the most Holy Eucharist.  In addition, we can attend mas and offer our Holy communion for them.
  2. Prayers – There are countless prayers that may be offered.  Among them is Praying the Stations of the Cross, The Most Holy Rosary, Eucharistic Adoration or a visit to the Blessed Sacrament.
  3. Almsgiving – is powerful for the remission of sins, which means that we can offer alms to the poor on behalf of the dead.
  4. Fasting – an efficacious sacrifice that we can offer for the Holy Souls in purgatory.
  5. Indulgences – The Church also provides generous indulgences that can be obtained for the Holy Souls.  example November 1 – 8, visit a cemetery and pray for the deceased while ensuring the conditions for the indulgence are met.
  6. Offering up our suffering and daily difficulties for the souls in purgatory.  It is beneficial for us to train ourselves not only to put up with difficulties but in a certain sense to choose them.  This does not mean we are to provoke them! But it means that when they do arise, we accept them based on trust and love for God and as a sacrifice offered for others.

 

Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – November 21

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple recalls – according to the apocryphal gospels, the day on which Mary, while still a child, was brought to the temple in Jerusalem to be offered to God. The Church wants to emphasize not so much the historical event in itself, of which there is no trace in the Gospels, but the total gift that Mary made of herself, by listening: “Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and observe it” (Lk. 11:28).

This experience prepared the young girl from Nazareth to become the

“temple of the Son of God”.

 

CHRIST THE KING – November 24

Christ the King is one of the most important titles of Jesus. Even though Jesus Christ was not a king in the earthly sense, He is the divine King of the Universe, who unites all of creation with the Father. As St. Paul tells us,

1 Cor. 15:25-28 For [Christ] must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For God has put all things in subjection under his feet. . . . When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to Him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

We understand the Kingship of Christ to mean that Jesus has authority over all creation. This authority is based on his identity as the Son of God and in his work of redemption. He is a king who serves, sacrifices, and redeems—a ruler who establishes a kingdom not by military might but by love, justice, and the ultimate sacrifice of himself on the cross. His resurrection is the vindication of his kingship and his ascension as his enthronement.