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Truth and Reconciliation in Canada Initiative – Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) which has addressed the sad legacy of the Indian Residential Schools will hold its final event, the closing ceremonies of its seven year tenure, in Ottawa on June 21, 2015, which is National Aboriginal Day. We are being asked to ring church bells for the murdered and missing indigenous women and girls. The bells can be rung at noon on June 21, National Aboriginal Day, marking the closing event in Ottawa. We are also asking that a prayer be said on that Sunday. The prayer will be sent to the parishes prior to June 21. Thank you.
Development and Peace Launches Prayer Contest – This December, Catholic organizations around the world will make a pilgrimage to Paris to compel world leaders to agree to a binding treaty at the United Nations climate change negotiations (COP21)… Development and Peace will be present. If you would like to take part in person in the Catholic call for climate justice in Paris, please send in a prayer for the contest. It needs to be a maximum of 100 words, a reflection of our common responsibility to care for creation, for the poor in the Global South who suffer the most from the impacts of climate change and a call for urgent action. Deadline to submit your prayer is June 21, 2015. Participants must be 18 years or older, only one author per prayer. Send to prayer@devp.org, please include your name and phone number. Visit: www.devp.org.
Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine, St. Laurent – The 136th annual pilgrimage begins July 5. Masses and Daily Novena Prayers are July 6-14, weekdays at 7:30pm, and Sundays at 4:00pm. Sunday masses from July 5-September 6 are at 4:00pm. Special celebrations are July 15 & 16 (includes guest speaker, Fr. Lucien Larre, memorial mass for Bill Martodam, Pipe Ceremony, Cree Mass, confessions and anointing of the sick), August 15 (Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven), September 8 (includes Feast of the Birth of Mary with birthday cake, coffee and candlelight procession). Complete details and schedule available at www.padiocese.ca/stlaurentshrine or www.stlaurentshrine.com.
St. Mary’s Residence Spiritual Direction and Programs – Battleford
