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- Weekday Mass (see bulletin)
- Sunday - 8:00am
- Sunday - 11:00am
- Last Sunday of each month
Latin Mass in Extra-Ordinary form - 9:15am - Confessions:
Wednesday 6:30-6:50pm
Friday 6:00-6:50pm
Saturday 11:00-noon
Sunday 1:30-10:50am
... and by arrangement - Eucharistic Adoration:
Monday to Thursday
(schedule) - Children's Holy Half-Hour:
after the Sunday 8:00AM Mass
Rev. Fr. Chris Shalla (Parish Priest),
35 Karol Wojtyla Square,
P.O. Box 309, Barry’s Bay, Ontario K0J 1B0
Office/Rectory: 613-756-2243
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00AM to 3:00PM
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Daily Gospel
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Second Reading - Eph 1:17-2317That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the...
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First Reading - Acts 1:1-111The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach, 2Until the day on which, giving commandments...
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Psalm - Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-92O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of Joy, 3For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over...
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Gospel - Mk 16:15-2015And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16He that believeth and is baptized, shall...
Welcome to Saint Hedwig's online where you can access a dimension of the spiritual and corporal Body of Christ that is our Roman Catholic community. Located in Barry's Bay and area, in the heart of the Madawaska Valley, Ontario, we are proud of our rich cultural heritage -- Kashub, Polish, Irish, French-Canadian, Native, and a colourful sprinkling of other backgrounds from the human family. Here, it is our baptismal sharing in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that brings us together as families, a family of faith, to worship and transmit a knowledge of the Living God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Pope's General Intention: That Catholic Universities may more and more be places where, in the light of the Gospel, it is possible to experience the harmonious unity existing between faith and reason. 
Saint Hedwig Church serves as the "campus church" for Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy -- a fresh, magesterially faithful, Catholic College that draws on the rich inheretance of classical liberal arts in the formation of its students. With the support of our devoted parishoners, the complexities of utlizing the church's facilities for OLSWA's main kitchen and adjunct classrooms, are made possible.
Gifts appropriate for all sacramental celebrations such as baptism, first Holy Communion, confirmation and marriage are available as well as catechetical material and Holy Bibles. 
Our parish has a vibrant Sacred heart League. Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a worshipful relationship to the person of Christ and His redeeming love, under the aspect or symbol of his heart (see CCC #2011). Its scriptural Origins include: The human heart, a person’s deepest self, is where God has written his covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34; CCC #s 1764-1765) | Jesus of John’s Gospel: At the Feast of the Tabernacles (John 7:37-39); “Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.” | 
The first Polish-Kashub church was built on Siberia Road, two miles from the villag
Also known as Hedwig, Jadwiga, was the daughter of Count Berthold IV of Andechs, Bavaria, where she was
The Splendor of the Church, audio course examines the Church in the Pauline and Johannine writings and in the Synoptic Gospels. All of this is containe
Scott Hahn Reflections
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May 20th 2012 - The Ascension of the LordListen Here!
Hearing the Call
Readings:
Acts 1:1-11
Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9
Eph 1:17-23
Mk 16:15-20In today’s first reading, St. Luke gives the surprising news that there is more of the story to be told. The story did not end with the empty tomb, or with Jesus’ appearances to the Apostles over the course of forty days. Jesus’ saving work will have a liturgical consummation. He is the great high priest, and he has still to ascend to the heavenly Jerusalem, there to celebrate the feast in the true Holy of Holies.
The truth of this feast shines forth from the Letter to the Hebrews, where we read of the great high priest’s passing through the heavens, the sinless...
Today's Saint
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Bernardine of SienaSt. Bernardine was born in Siena, September 8, 1380, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and died May 20, 1444 in Aquila.St. Bernardine, known as ‘The Apostle of Italy’ was the greatest Italian missionary and preacher of the fifteenth century. He was the reformer and popularizer of the Order of Friars Minor of the Strict Observance (the order grew from 300 members when he joined them to over 4000 at the time of his death), and the Apostle of the Holy Name of Jesus, the feast of which was instituted in the universal Church in 1722 due to his efforts at encouraging the devotion.Bernardine was orphaned at the age of 6 and brought up by pious aunts. At 17 he joined the Confraternity of Our Lady, which was joined to a hospital, but he lived a life of seclusion and prayer until the plague broke out three years later when he felt called to minister to the sick.Bernardine received the habit of the Friars Minor at San Francesco in Siena, September 8, 1402, entered the Observantine convent of Columbaio and was professed September 8, 1403 and ordained September 8, 1404. The Feast of the Nativity of Mary was the date for many of the great events of his life, including his birth, and his devotion to the Blessed Virgin was undoubtedly profound – he wrote several treatises on Her (as well as on St. Joseph), and She was the school in which he learned to be humble and obedient to the will of God.In 1417, at the age of 37, Bernardine began preaching in Milan and the fiery, and often playful eloquence he demonstrated was soon attracting crowds in the tens of thousands. His mission was to preach to all of Italy, a mission which had been...