Jan. 1 - Day of Obligation

Sung Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, 

Mother of God, 

January 1 at 12:30 noon 

STM, Toronto,

263 Roncesvalles, Toronto, Ontario

ADVENT LESSONS AND CAROLS WITH BENEDICTION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

EARLY CHRISTMAS EVE MASS AT 5:00 PM

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

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

CELEBRATE STM

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

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

Holy Week and Easter Liturgies

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^th century 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.

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.

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

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.

Traditional English Litany chanted in procession with Sung Mass -- First Sunday in Lent.

Sunday, February 18 at 12:30 noon

Traditional English Great Litany 

chanted in procession 

with

Sung Mass for 

The First Sunday in Lent.

Refreshments follow in the parish hall.

A "People's Missal" for the Ordinariates

DW Missal - Study Edition

Concert for Feast of the Presentation

“When to the Temple Mary Went” 

A concert for Candlemas

Adelphi Vocal Ensemble 

under the direction of Peter Bishop

with Simon Walker

Latin Proper for the Purification of the BVM by Wm Byrd

Motets:

Orlandus Lassus, Charles Wood, Johann Eccard.

Organ music by Wood, Buxtehude and Mendelssohn.