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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

  • First Reading - 1 Thess 4:1-8
    1 For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought...
  • Psalm - Ps 97:1-2,5-6,10-12
    1 For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be...
  • Gospel - Mt 25:1-13
    1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. 2...

Events Calendar

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Upcoming Events

Sun Aug 28 @11:30AM -
Mass in Extraordinary Form
Mon Aug 29 @ 7:30PM -
Al-Anon
Sat Sep 03 @ 2:00PM -
Wedding
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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

  • August 28th, 2011 - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
    Listen Here!

    For Your Life

    Readings:
    Jeremiah 20:7-9
    Psalm 63:2-6, 8-9
    Romans 12:1-2
    Matthew 16:21-27


    Today’s First Reading catches the prophet Jeremiah in a moment of weakness. His intimate lamentation contains some of the strongest language of doubt found in the Bible. Following God’s call, he feels abandoned. Preaching His Word has brought him only derision and .

    But God does not deceive - and Jeremiah knows this. He tests the just (see Jeremiah 20:11-12), and disciplines His children through their sufferings and trials (see Hebrews 12:5-7).

    What Jeremiah learns, Jesus states explicitly in today’s Gospel. To follow Him is to take up a cross, to deny yourself - your priorities, preferences, and comforts. It is to be...

Today's Saint

  • St. Jeanne Elizabeth des Bichier des Anges
    Born July 1773 at La Blanc, France; 26 August, 1838; canonized 1947 by Pope Pius XII. Born to nobility, and educated in a convent school, Jeanne Elizabeth witnessed closely and was personally affected by the events of the French Revolution which rocked France when she was 16 years old. On her father’s death she moved to La Guimetiere with her mother, and in 1796, realizing that she needed to do something to defend the Church and keep the faith alive amidst the attacks of the revolutionaries, she decided to begin a ministry of teaching and serving the poor. She gathered groups of faithful in the town – which was at this point without a priest or community of religious – and organized meetings of prayer and Scripture study. The town still suffered the effects of the French Revolution; it didn't even have a priest, much less religious communities. Jeanne Elizabeth gathered the remaining faithful together to pray, read Scripture, and sing hymns. She entered a Carmelite convent on her mother’s death in 1804 and later the Society of Providence, on the advice of Saint Andrew Fournet, an underground priest who was forced to remain clandestine because he refused to make a pledge of allegiance to the government of the new republic. He realized that she was the one God had called to lead a community of women he had gathered, and she cofounded the Daughters of the Cross with him in 1807 to care for the sick and poor and teach the faith. By the time of her death in 1838, the community had more than 60 houses all over France.