Parish News and Events: 2018

Monday 31 December 2018

Sung Mass for the Solemnity of Mary,

Mother of God,

January 1 at 12:30 noon

STM, Toronto,

263 Roncesvalles, Toronto, Ontario

Saturday 27 October 2018

Remembrance Sunday -- 100th Anniversary

Requiem High Mass
St. Thomas More OCSP
Toronto
12:30 Sunday, November 11

Marking the 100th Anniversary of
Remembrance Day
and
the Armistice ending
World War One

Friday 27 July 2018

The Sunday Obligation to attend Mass

Have a look at this excellent quotation by Father Hunwicke. He quotes the late Dom Gregory Dix, the remarkably lucid Anglican Benedictine writer:

The-Sunday-Obligation

Monday 11 June 2018

Saturday 9 June 2018

STM Patronal Concert - Friday June 22, 8:00 p.m.

THE FEAST OF ST. THOMAS MORE

Propers for the Feast of All Saints – Byrd

Missa "Gaudeamus" – Victoria;

Ave Verum Corpus – Raminsh;

Music by Bruckner & Stanford.

Peter Bishop, Director

Aaron James, Guest Organist

PATRONAL SOLEMN HIGH MASS

SOLEMN HIGH MASS

Patronal Festival of St. Thomas More

Sunday, June 24 at 12:30

Refreshments following.

An experience of Benedictine life for young women

Monday 26 March 2018

ASCENSION DAY D.W. SUNG MASS AT NEWMAN CENTRE

The choir of the Parish of St. Thomas More will sing High Mass at the Newman Centre Church of St. Thomas Aquinas

This will allow those working downtown to fulfill their Mass obligation on the way home and is an opportunity for students and staff at U of T to experience the traditional English language and music of the Divine Worship form of the Roman Rite.

Church of St. Thomas Aquinas at the Newman Centre
St George Street at Harbord, U of T

Saturday 24 March 2018

Holy Week and Easter Liturgies

Monday 5 March 2018

Laetare Sunday, March 11 at STM Toronto

Our thanks today to Fr. Derek Cross C.O. who has come to celebrate Mass and preach.

HYMN # 396 – Let saints on earth in concert sing (Dundee)

Kyrie – Short Communion Service in the Phrygian Mode (CharlesWood)

Homily (Sit) Fr. Derek Cross C.O.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

Form II (Kneel) page 27

+ Universal Intercession – That those who have material, political or spiritual power

may resist any lure of corruption.

Please offer prayers for the following intentions:

+ Persecuted Christians in N. Korea, China, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria & others.

+ Ste. Marie-De-Deux-Montagnes, St-Benoît-du-Lac, for those discerning vows to the contemplative life, for vocations to holy orders and those to be ordained D.V. this

Spring: Br. Robert-Charles, Br. Sean-Patrick (priest) and Murray O’Coin (deacon)

+ Those who are ill and those recovering: Lillias, Feliks, Murray, Heidi, Annette, Judy.

Offertory Hymn # 339 – Be thou my vision (Slane)

Offertory Motet – Rejoice in the Lord always (16^thcentury Anon.)

Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei

Short Communion Service in the Phrygian Mode

Motet – O pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Thomas Tomkins)

Hymn # 507 – The Lent Prose, “Attende Domine” Mode V

Hymn # 306 – Strengthen for service, Lord (Ach Gott und Herr)

The Angelus

– Please join us downstairs in the parish hall for refreshments after Mass. –

Weekdays at STM/ SVDP

HOLY MASS: Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. OF

(except Maundy Thursday to Holy Saturday)

Saturday & Civic Holidays 10:00 a.m. OF

DW = Divine Worship form of the Roman Rite in traditional English.

OF = Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite in modern English.

CONFESSION: Saturdays 4 – 5 p.m. and 15 minutes before each Mass.

Thursday 1 March 2018

Parish Novena

Through the intercession of Our Lady of Walsingham, St. Kateri Tekakwitha St, Thomas More and Blessed John Henry Newman we ask God to restore Murray O'Coin to health and strength to serve our Lord as Deacon in the Catholic Church, serving Christ the King, Tyendinaga.

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Let us pray.

God our Father, you granted to your servant Blessed John Henry Newman wonderful gifts of nature and of grace, that he should be a spiritual light in the darkness of this world, an eloquent herald of the Gospel, and a devoted servant of the one Church of Christ.

With confidence in his heavenly intercession, we make the following petition for the healing of Murray and strength to serve his family and the mission of Christ the King, Tyendinaga.

We give thanks for the insight into the mysteries of the kingdom of Blessed JHN who was zealous in defense of the teachings of the Church, and in his priestly love for each of your children; we pray that he may soon be numbered among the Saints.

We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be.

Saturday 24 February 2018

CALL FOR CONSCIENCE

Bishops across Ontario are asking for an email address from every Catholic family in their community. This information will be used to communicate on issues of particular importance for the Catholic community. 

The first campaign of 2018 is the Call for Conscience, inviting our elected Members of Provincial Parliament (MPP's) and those seeking office this June to increase funding and access to palliative care, to protect health care workers wanting, in conscience,  to abstain from any involvement in euthanasia/assisted suicide and to protect faith based facilities from participation in assisted suicide.  

Sign up this week and next for information about CALL FOR CONSCIENCE. Leave your e-mail address here:

CALL FOR CONSCIENCE

Thursday 22 February 2018

Feast of the Chair of St. Peter - Pray for the Unity of Christ's One Church

THE SOLEMNITY OF THE CHAIR OF ST PETER THE APOSTLE

O ALMIGHTY God, who by thy Son Jesus Christ didst give to thy Apostle Saint Peter many excellent gifts, and commandedst him earnestly to feed thy flock: make, we beseech thee, all Bishops and Pastors diligently to preach thy holy Word, and the people obediently to follow the same; that they may receive the crown of everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.