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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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Zenit News
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Spokesman Notes Pope's Reflections on 'For Many,' 'For All'Says Distinction Points to What Benedict Considers Truly Important
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Claiming Work -- and Its Feast Day -- for GodDirector of the Josephite Movement Speaks of St. Joseph the Worker
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Divine Mercy and the See of PeterMonsignor Josef Bart on Devotion to Blessed John Paul II
Daily Gospel
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First Reading - Acts 12:24-13:5a24But the word of the Lord increased and multiplied. 25And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled their ministry, taking with them John, who...
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Psalm - Ps Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6 and 82May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us, and may he have...
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Gospel - Jn 12:44-5044But Jesus cried, and said: He that believeth in me, doth not believe in me, but in him that sent me.45And he that seeth me,...
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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 6th 2012 - Fifth Sunday of EasterListen Here!
On the Vine
Readings:
Acts 9:26-31
Psalm 22:26-28, 30-321
John 3:18-24
John 15:1-8In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that He is the true vine that God intended Israel to be—the source of divine life and wisdom for the nations (see Sirach 24:17-24).
In baptism, each of us was joined to Him by the Holy Spirit. As a branch grows from a tree, our souls are to draw life from Him, nourished by His word and the Eucharist.
Paul in today’s First Reading seeks to be grafted onto the visible expression of Christ the true vine—His Church. Once the chief persecutor of the Church, he encounters initial resistance and suspicion. But he is known by his fruits,...
Today's Saint
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St. Athanasius, doctor of the ChurchCatholics honor St. Athanasius on May 2. The fourth century bishop is known as “the father of orthodoxy� for his absolute dedication to the doctrine of Christ's divinity. St. Athanasius was born to Christian parents living in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in 296. His parents took great care to have their son educated, and his talents came to the attention of a local priest who was later canonized as St. Alexander of Alexandria. The priest and future saint tutored Athanasius in theology, and eventually appointed him as an assistant.Around the age of 19, Athanasius spent a formative period in the Egyptian desert as a disciple of St. Anthony in his monastic community. Returning to Alexandria, he was ordained a deacon in 319, and resumed his assistance to Alexander who had become a bishop. The Catholic Church, newly recognized by the Roman Empire, was already encountering a new series of dangers from within.The most serious threat to the fourth-century Church came from a priest named Arius, who taught that Jesus could not have existed eternally as God prior to his historical incarnation as a man. According to Arius, Jesus was the highest of created beings, and could be considered “divine� only by analogy. Arians professed a belief in Jesus' “divinity,� but meant only that he was God's greatest creature.Opponents of Arianism brought forth numerous scriptures which taught Christ's eternal pre-existence and his identity as God. Nonetheless, many Greek-speaking Christians found it intellectually easier to believe in Jesus as a created demi-god, than to accept the mystery of a Father-Son relationship within the Godhead. By 325, the controversy was dividing the Church and unsettling the Roman Empire.In that year, Athanasius attended the First Ecumenical Council, held at Nicea to examine and judge Arius' doctrine in light of apostolic tradition. It reaffirmed...