Friday, September 2, 2016

September 2016 - Looking Ahead

Like all parishes, we are getting ready for the fall.  Our summer Mass schedule continues on the Labour Day Weekend - Saturday at 5pm, Sunday at 8:30am and 10:30am.  The following weekend, September 10 & 11, our regular schedule will be Saturday at 5pm and Sunday at 8am, 9:30am and Noon. 

Please pick up a parish bulletin on that same weekend for registration information for Reconciliation & First Communion and for Confirmation. 

September 17 at 10:30am we have our annual prayer service at St. Gregory the Great Cemetery. 

That's enough to get us started. 

Welcome to St. Gregory's if you are new to the parish or if you are a student living in the area. 

We are still working toward getting our parish hall open again.  There are some engineering tests that are critical to our going forward which hopefully will be done in the next few weeks. 

But with our new schedule this will not prevent us from being more engaged.  With the "gap" between the last two morning Masses look for various activities to be offered.  Whether sacramental programming, spiritual or formation opportunities or a few social things, you might find yourself plugging in to something. 

We hope also to have a revamped website soon.  Our current website is www.stgregorythegreat.ca.  You can also find much useful information from the Archdiocese of Toronto website, www.archtoronto.org.  Younger adults and youth may also want to access the Office of Catholic Youth site, www.ocytoronto.org.  The Archdiocese also has a chaplaincy to UOIT and Trent Durham centred at St. Joseph the Worker parish:  https://stjosephtheworkeros.archtoronto.org/.  Information on this site is quite basic at the moment, but if you look for parish staff you will find contact info for "campus ministry".