Transfiguration of Our Lord
We are God’s instruments who strive to grow by sharing and nurturing our joint commitment to Christ’s message of love, and by committing ourselves to serve the needs of the parish as stewards for the sake of God’s kingdom

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Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland (16163 Hwy. 12 West) on Sunday, August 24. For more information, please visit: www.archtoronto.org/jubilee

Back by demand, Healing the Soul session of deliverance, healing and blessing followed by Holy Eucharist mass on Friday, July 18 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Delivered by Fr. Carlos.

Good Shepherd Casserole Dates:

  • July 26/27,  August 30/31 and September 27/28

Roses for Life:  The KoC will be selling Roses for Life rose lapel in the vestibule this weekend. Proceeds will support pro-life organizations.

This year marks our 65th year anniversary. A Dinner & Dance is planned for Saturday, November 29, 2025, at 7:00pm. Tickets limited to 250 people. More information to follow.

Items needed are individually packaged  snacks, juices, bottled water, personal hygiene, art supplies. Please drop any donations in the parish office.

Novena for Cancer All are welcome to join us for Mass every Tuesday at 9:30am. After the Mass, we pray a novena to Saint Michael of the Saints: A Trinitarian mystic and patron saint of cancer patients.

Perpetual Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours. Please use your assigned keypad access code to gain entry to the front doors of the Church.

The Ascension of the Lord and the Assumption of Mary

While Jesus and Mary both enter heaven miraculously, only one does so on their own power. Just as Jesus descends from heaven in the incarnation, he returns to heaven in the ascension. Jesus, true God and true human, ascends on his own power. Mary, on the other hand, has no ability to rise into heaven on her own. Mary is venerated by the church as the Queen of Heaven and Earth and the greatest of the saints. Like us, however, she is fully human. Mary is not God: She is assumed into heaven by God.

Both events, though, tell us the same story. Mary’s assumption is only possible and only makes sense in light of Jesus’ ascension. By ascending into heaven, Jesus, as he does in the resurrection, defeats death and provides a new way for his followers. Mary, the first disciple of Jesus, shows us how a life lived in conformity with God’s will, should end: by entering, body and soul, into perfect communion with God. (https://uscatholic.org/articles)