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EXTERNAL: Board Directors
Jan-24-2025 to Feb-10-2025
The Catholic Family Services of Toronto (CFST) is currently recruiting 2-4 individuals who have the time, expertise, and passion to help advance their mission as a volunteer member on their Board of Directors.
For more information regarding the position...
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Parish Summer Camps in 2025
Its been double digits into the negative for weather in recent days, so the idea of a sunny and warm day at your parish with the sound of kids running around outside or singing on the inside may feel like...
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Ashadeep Christmas Greetings
The members of Ashadeep wish you and your loved ones a very happy Christmas. May your heart be filled with joy, love, and peace. May the Infant Jesus bless you.Thank you very much for all your kind support and...
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Ashadeep Advent Giving Tree 2024
Update: Thank you to all those who have contributed to our annualfundraiser for the orphaned children of Asha Deep throughthe Advent Giving Tree. The Fundraiser will end on the Fourth Sunday of Advent – Sunday December 22nd. All donations must...
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Liturgy of the Word for Children
Liturgy of the Word for Children has resumed on Sundays at the 11:00 am Mass. The ministry is intended for children between ages 3-7 years old. After the opening prayer, children who wish to attend are invited to...
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Children Preparing for First Communion & Confirmation
Last Opportunity! (Deadline on October 27, 2024)Children looking to celebrate the Sacraments of First Reconciliation, First Communion (Grade 2 and up) and Confirmation (Grade 7 and up) during the academic year at St. Patrick's Toronto are to be...
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5 Tips in Riding the Back to School Momentum
The beginning of autumn evokes feelings of excitement, anticipation and new beginnings!
There is a shift in the air. Can you feel it? A crispness in the air suggests the end of summer is just around the corner. It is...
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Local Salesian Sister to Profess First Vows this Summer
Situated about 20-miles Southeast of the Delaware Water Gap, the popular American national recreation area on the Delaware River near the border of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a Catholic summer camp called Camp Auxilium welcomes children as they arrive...
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May 13-19 is National Family and Life Week
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) warmly invites the Catholic faithful to celebrate National Family and Life Week 2024 (NFLW), which will take place from May 13 to 19, 2024.
This year’s theme, “Love hopes...
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Time is of the Essence: Waste it Together!
In preparation for the Family Day holiday weekend in Ontario, Catholic children’s author and illustrator, Carissa Douglas, reflects on strengthening faith and family bonds by giving importance to spending unstructured time together. Carissa is one of...
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Altar Server Awards 2023
For 36 years, the Greater Toronto Area Serra Clubs have been recognizing the service and achievements of altar servers from parishes across the Archdiocese of Toronto through the annual Bishop’s Altar Server Awards for Service.
Each year, local...
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Helping Children Grow Closer to God
Anna Boyagoda, Director of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for the Archdiocese of Toronto, answers a few of the most common questions about the CGS ministry.
1. What is the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd?
The Catechesis of the...
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Children's Liturgy of the Word is back!
Liturgy of the Word for Children will resume on Sunday, September 10, 2023. We are excited to welcome back children from Kindergarten to Grade 6 to celebrate the Mass and grow in faith.
If you are interested in volunteering in...
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Archbishop Leo's Message for Catholic Education Week
Catholic Education Week 2023 takes place from April 30 – May 5. The theme for this year is: We are many, we are one.
Please see below a letter issued by Archbishop Francis Leo:
My dear friends,
Christus resurrexit...
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Ashadeep Advent Giving Tree 2022
Again, as in past years during Advent, we focus our thoughts and giving on the children of Ashadeep Centre for the Differently Abled.
This year once more, our only fund raising is the Advent Giving Tree, but Ashadeep is more...
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Women and the 'New Normal'
Heather King is an award-winning memoirist, columnist and blogger with several books. She speaks nationwide, leads writing workshops and writes a weekly column on arts and culture for Angelus News, the archdiocesan newspaper of Los Angeles. For more, please...
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Giving Birth to Contemplation
“Family, the Domestic Church: A Sign of Hope and Life” is the theme of this year’s National Week for Life and the Family, May 9-16.
To mark this occasion, Catholic children’s author and...
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Join in on the Archdiocese’s Virtual Gathering of Families
Cardinal Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, is pleased to invite families from across the archdiocese to our third annual virtual gathering of families: Family at the Heart of Formation!
Happening on Saturday, November 28, 2020 starting at 10 a.m...