I have gone and done it!

Well, I have gone and done it! I have opened a YouTube Channel!
I am posting some videos of different churches I have visited. All of this is very new to me ... So be gentle!

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Catholic Christian Outreach - Greta Racco

My name is Greta Racco, and I am a second-year Music student in the Concurrent Education program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. I was raised Catholic, and was involved in Holy Family Parish’s youth ministry as a teen. My faith went to an even deeper level when I encountered, and became involved with, Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO) on the campus of Queen's University in Kingston last year. I wholeheartedly invited Christ to be at the centre of my life, and allowed the Father’s love to transform me, filling me with a great desire to share the Gospel and His love – a desire that continues to grow in me every day, and fill me with a zeal for mission.

This mission to Comayagua, Honduras will be my first experience of the sort, and I am overjoyed at even the thought of it. I look forward to serving Christ in the people that I will encounter, and evangelizing alongside the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, whose apostolate I have long been drawn to.

I humbly ask for your prayers that I, along with the other Honduras missionaries, will submit myself completely to the Father’s will, and that He may use me as an instrument for His greater glory. I cannot thank you enough for you prayers and your donations, as my participation in this mission would not be possible without them. Know that you are in my prayers, as well.

Donate by clicking HERE.     We support you Greta!

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World Day of Prayer

http://worlddayofprayer.net/index.html

Each year on the first Friday of March, the Women's Inter Church Council sponsors an ecumenical prayer service in communities throughout the world.
Each year these prayers are written by women from a different country - this year the prayers are written by the womne of the Phillipines - and Holy Family Parish is the hist church for Bolton!
We will gather for prayer at 1:30 and the prayer will be followed by fellowship in the parish hall!

Mardi Gras & Carnival

This evening the Knights of Columbus served up a great feast of Pancakes and Sausages with "Real" Maple Syrop! and even the Knights were learning that this day - Fat Tuesday = Mardi Gras and that Carnival = farewell to meat!

The church shifted earlier today to the colour of Purple for Lent.
We also have the bare trees back for Lent - trees that will be filled with our ribbons marking our Prayer / Fasting / and Giving during Lent. 
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Visit to the Cathedral by Edge

Our Edge group visited the recently restored St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica on Friday evening.  Great tour with the Rector - Fr. Michael Busch. 

Thanks to the Cathedral Staff who kept the building open for us so we could do this Tour after Hours! Here are our Family of Faith dollars at work!

Fr. Michael Waites - Friend and Mentor

Last week I went to Trenton, NJ to visit a priest mentor of mine who has been diagnosed with stage 4 Prostate Cancer. 
Fr. Michael Waites originally grew up in the Philadelphia area, and studied in Toronto and was ordained a priest for Toronto. 
He was the associate Pastor in my home parish – Blessed Trinity - and instilled in me a love for Liturgy – and Big Symbols. He preached at my first Mass.
After 9/11 it was getting harder to travel back and forth across the Border, and his mother was declining – so he was able to transfer to Trenton NJ Diocese. He retired 1.5 years ago, at 70 years of age. He is living in a priest retirement home – a nice place in Lawrenceville, NJ,  called “Villa Vianney”.
Last July he was feeling horrible all of a sudden before celebrating Mass at a parish nearby – and so he eventually went to the Hospital. This was the first time in his life he had been in an ER! 
They found a mass on his Kidney and metastases to lungs… within a week or 2 they had removed the kidney.
He is going thru Chemo now. They did some radiation in the new year – because of mets to the bones – in his neck area.
He still looks like I remember him - and he is a fighter! Please keep him in your prayers. 

Welcome to Ordinary Time

In the last week a long awaited Christmas gift arrived - as we re-entered Ordinary Time. I received my Mavic Pro Drone from DJI.
This had been on order since the beginning of November. 

I was able to fly it a few times this past week and get some great images. 




We are experiencing technical difficulties at this time! but more shots to come soon!