The Mission of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish is to make Disciples of all Nations, to Baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit and to Teach everyone to obey all that Jesus has commanded.

 

Father Steve Ballard, (J.C.L.) Parish Priest
11 Mohns Avenue, Petawawa, Ontario K8H 2B5

Telephone: (613) 687-4764
Fax: (613) 687-4231
Email: ballardsf@gmail.com
 

Mass Times - Saturday: 5:00 p.m. & Sunday: 10:00 a.m.

The Year of Faith

The New Evangelization

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops:
The New Evangelization

The Vatican on

October 21, 2012
St. Peter's Basilica (Rome) 

Known as the “Lily of the Mohawks”, Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 in Ossernenon (today Auriesville, New York) to a Catholic Algonquin mother and a Mohawk Chief.  When she was four years old, her parents and brother died of smallpox.  Kateri was also affected by the disease, which left her almost blind and badly scarred her face.  She was taken in by her aunts and uncle, who was strongly opposed to Christianity.
 
When she was 10 years old, her village moved to Caughnawaga (today Fonda, New York).  In 1667, her village was visited by the Jesuit missionaries Fathers Fremin, Bruyas and Pierron.  From them, she received her first knowledge of Christianity.  When Kateri turned 18, Father Jacques de Lamberville arrived to take charge of the mission in her village.  Despite his misgivings, her uncle allowed her to be baptized as long as she remained in the village.  Following her Baptism, Kateri lived a pious and faith-filled life, spending hours in prayer and fashioning crosses out of twigs.  She also refused to marry, believing that she was married to God and that no man could take God’s place in her heart.  Her beliefs were met with ridicule, hostility and threats. Thus, two years after her Baptism, she fled to St. Francis Xavier Mission, a Christian Mohawk village in Kahnawake, Quebec.
 
There, she received her first Communion on Christmas Day 1677.  She also made a vow of perpetual virginity on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1679.  In Kahnawake, Kateri was known for her faith and holiness.  She taught prayers to children, cared for the elderly and the sick, and would often attend mass at sunrise and sunset.
 
Kateri’s health deteriorated in the last years of her life.  She died of tuberculosis on April 17, 1680, shortly before her 24th birthday, and was buried at St. Francis Xavier Mission.  Her final words were: “Jesos Konoronkwa” (“Jesus, I love you”).  Witnesses report that within minutes of her death, the smallpox scars vanished from her face, which then radiated with beauty. 
 
It is believed that since Kateri's death many miracles have been performed through her intercession, with the sick being cured and many prayers being answered.  Kateri was declared Venerable by Pope Pius XII on January 3, 1943, and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980. On December 19, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI signed a decree officially acknowledging another miracle attributed to her intervention. On February 18, 2012, the Holy Father announced that Blessed Kateri will be canonized on October 21, 2012. She will thus become “the first native North American to be raised to the glory of the altars”.
 
Today, there are a number of shrines and centres dedicated to Kateri in both the United States and Canada, including the National Shrine of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha at the site of her Baptism in Fonda, New York, the Kateri Centre at her burial site at the St. Francis Xavier Mission in Kahnawake, which today is in the Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, and the Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs at her birthplace in Auriesville, New York.

 

• http://divineoffice.org/
• www.usccb.org/bible/readings/081411.cfm
• www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintofDay/default.aspx

foryourmarriage.org/

www.marriageuniqueforareason.org


Catholic Marriage


What is Marriage?


Cohabitation


An Open Letter: Living Together before Marriage

Marriage of Roman Catholics Outside of the Church


Should I Attend the Wedding of a Roman Catholic who married Outside of the Church?
 

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?Divorce


 www.maritalhealing.com/


Steps to having my Marriage blessed in the Roman Catholic Church (Convalidation)
 

Our profession of faith begins with God, for God is the First and the Last, the beginning and the end of everything. The Credo begins with God the Father, for the Father is the first divine person of the Most Holy Trinity; our Creed begins with the creation of heaven and earth, for creation is the beginning and the foundation of all God's works." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 198)

Catholic belief is succinctly expressed in the profession of faith or credo called the Nicene Creed:

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
 
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made.
 
For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man.
 
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.
 
He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.
 
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.
 
I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
 
I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

• www.radiovaticana.org/
• avemariaradio.net/
• saltandlighttv.org/
• www.youtube.com/vatican?gl=CA&hl=en

 http://www.youtube.co

• Open Letter to a Young Man
• Five things I can do to promote vocations to the priesthood.pdf
• A Priest - His Work and Lifestyle.pdf
• Priests: In Their Own Words [Life Teen]
• www.vocations.ca/
• Novena to the Holy Spirit for Vocations.pdf
• What is a Priest.pdf
• A Prayer for Our Priests.pdf
• encouragepriests.org/collar-hollers.php
• http://solisisters.ca/
• www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/priesthd/priesthd.htm
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Loyola Press 3-Minute Retreat 
 

www.seatofwisdom.org

 the New Roman Missal
The New Roman Missal was Implemented on the 1st Sunday of Advent, November 27th, 2011 - Check it out!
  
♦ The Responses for the Mass.pdf
♦ http://old.usccb.org/romanmissal/resources-videos.shtml
♦ www.usccb.org/romanmissal/
♦ peoples parts.pdf
♦ priests parts.pdf
♦ www.icelweb.org/musicfolder/openmusic.php