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  • Weekday Mass (see bulletin)
  • Saturday - 5:00PM
  • Sunday - 8:00AM
  • Sunday - 10:00AM
  • Confessions: Saturday 4:00-4:45PM 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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  • First Reading - Ex 33:7-11,34:5b-9,28
    7 Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And...
  • Psalm - Ps 102:6-13
    6 The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.7 He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to...
  • Gospel - Mt 13:36-43
    36 Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable...

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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.

    Our Parish Intention: That through our participation in the spiritual and social activities of the parish, that we may grow in our unity as a parish family dedicated to the service and love of God and each other.

  • 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.

    For more information please visit Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy

  • 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.

    Please contact Frances Coulas at 756-2175 to purchase items or to place an order on items that may not be in stock.

  • 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.” | Find out more...

The First Years: St. Hedwig Parish
Thursday October 08, 2009

The first Polish-Kashub church was built on Siberia Road, two miles from the villag

Our lineage of Priests
Saint Hedwig Church has been blessed
About our patron, Swata Jadwiga
Thursday October 08, 2009

Also known as Hedwig, Jadwiga, was the daughter of Count Berthold IV of Andechs, Bavaria, where she was

The Kashub's Catholic Heritage
The Kashubs formed the largest and m
Free Audio Bible Study with Scott Hahn
Thursday September 30, 2010

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

A Parish Based Bible Study Program
This dynamic series combines live pr

Scott Hahn Reflections

  • July 31st, 2011 - 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
    Listen Here!

    Food in Due Season

    Readings:
    Isaiah 55:1-3
    Psalm 145:8-9, 15-18
    Romans 8:35,37-39
    Matthew 14:13-21


    In Jesus and the Church, Isaiah’s promises in today’s First Reading are fulfilled. All who are thirsty come to the living waters of baptism (see John 4:14). The hungry delight in rich fare - given bread to eat and wine to drink at the Eucharistic table.

    This is the point, too, of today’s Gospel. The story of Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 brims with allusions to the Old Testament. Jesus is portrayed as a David-like shepherd who leads His flock to lie down on green grass as He spreads the table of the Messiah’s banquet before them (see Psalm 23)....

Today's Saint

  • Sts. Anne and Joachim
    On July 26 the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the parents of the Virgin Mary, Saints Joachim and Anne. The couple's faith and perseverance brought them through the sorrow of childlessness, to the joy of conceiving and raising the immaculate and sinless woman who would give birth to Christ. The New Testament contains no specific information about the lives of the Virgin Mary's parents, but other documents outside of the Biblical canon do provide some details. Although these writings are not considered authoritative in the same manner as the Bible, they outline some of the Church's traditional beliefs about Joachim, Anne and their daughter. The “Protoevangelium of James,” which was probably put into its final written form in the early second century, describes Mary's father Joachim as a wealthy member of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Joachim was deeply grieved, along with his wife Anne, by their childlessness. “He called to mind Abraham,” the early Christian writing says, “that in the last day God gave him a son Isaac.” Joachim and Anne began to devote themselves to rigorous prayer and fasting, in isolation from one another and from society. They regarded their inability to conceive a child as a surpassing misfortune, and a sign of shame among the tribes of Israel. As it turned out, however, the couple were to be blessed even more abundantly than Abraham and Sarah. An angel revealed this to Anne when he appeared to her and prophesied that all generations would honor their future child: “The Lord has heard your prayer, and you shall conceive, and shall bring forth; and your seed shall be spoken of in all the world.” After Mary's birth, according to the Protoevangelium of James, Anne “made a sanctuary” in the infant girl's room, and “allowed nothing common or unclean” on...