HOSPITALITY SOCIALS

FOR YOUR INFORMATION OUR COFFEE & TREAT MEETS ARE…

• November 29th / 30th, 2025
  
  All our hospitality socials follow our Saturday 5pm & Sunday 10am Masses in our parish hall.

  These socials are complimentary and our thanks for having you members of our parish.
  

HOSPITALITY SOCIAL - Jan. 25/26, 2025 Chinese New Year

HOSPITALITY SOCIAL - May 10/11, 2025 Celebrating Mother’s and Fr. Joe’s 40th anniversary as a priest

HOSPITALITY SOCIAL - September 6 / 7, 2025 Welcome Back

JINGLE BELL BAZAAR - Saturday, November 8th (10am to 4pm)

Visit us in our parish hall on Saturday, November 8th from 10am to 4pm where we will have our mammoth penny sale table (at least 200 prizes), special draw table, 50/50 and a wonderful baked goods and sweet table with prizes as well. We have one of the best penny sale tables around! Please note that guests must be 18+ to purchase tickets.

Need a quick bite or some refreshment, we will have a cafe as well. WE ASK THAT YOU DO NOT LINGER FOR THE DAY…we are very limited for space and want everyone to be able to sit fill out their tickets or enjoy their cafe purchase and then leave. We will not be doing the draws until after the bazaar closes and will be video taped live on facebook.

Worth the visit and worth supporting by purchasing your raffle tickets!

We are wheelchair/walker accessible and there is no admittance fee.

RAFFLES WILL BE DONE ON FACEBOOK LIVE at 4:30pm. No guests and no hand out of prizes on the day of the Bazaar.

The draws will be done on Facebook Live at 4:30pm! No prizes will be handed out the day of the bazaar, therefore no guests will remain in the hall. With 200 prizes it is too confusing to draw and hand out the same day. There will be plenty of time to pick up your prizes the next few days.

All winners will be notified by telephone therefore you must include a phone number where you can be reached with your name. If you need to call, call 905-387-3550 during office hours Tuesday to Thursday 9am to 2pm.
Prizes must be picked up Sunday, Nov. 9 from 11am to 4pm or
Monday, Nov. 10 from 5pm to 8pm. You must show your ticket to claim and it must match the ticket stub handed in as well as the winning ticket stub. Do not just show up anytime!
If you do not claim your prize by the end of November … the prize will go towards our 2026 bazaar.

Please note prizes may also be picked up during office hours Tuesday to Thursday 9am to 2:30pm

BAZAAR FLYER 2025 …. CLICK HERE

SUNDAY MASSES & WEEKDAY MASSES

Sunday Masses & Weekday Masses

SATURDAY 5:00 p.m.

SUNDAY 10:00 a.m.

Tuesday to Friday at 8:30a.m. in the chapel
(Friday adoration will follow 8:30am Mass until 9:30am - September to June only)

 Please arrive in time for the start of Mass.

We look forward to seeing you at Mass.

If you are new to our parish and plan to make us your spiritual home regularly. Please fill out a blue registration form located at the church entrances. You can complete and return by collection plate, drop off in our mailbox or hand it to Fr. Joe and introduce yourself.

When looking for any sacramental celebrations such as baptisms, first holy communion, confirmation or weddings, we check our parish records for your registration. Please note that if you do not live in our geographical boundaries (unless you are registered), we will ask you to obtain a sacramental permission form from your home parish. Many parishes have one priest to provide ministries for their members while other parishes depending on the number of registered families may have more than one priest to assist.

If you are looking for a personal reference, you must be a registered member of the parish. It’s always good to volunteer at the parish so that Fr. Joe can get to know you. There are many ways you can assist without a big time commitment.

WAYS TO DONATE TO OUR PARISH

Please consider supporting the Parish!

Sts. Peter & Paul parish community is able to thrive because of your generosity!

Donations can be made at Mass or by dropping off your envelopes, cheque or cash at the
Office or outside rectory mail box. This mailbox is checked many times throughout the day.

You can make credit card donations by calling the parish office 905-387-3550 or using the secure safe website of Canada Helps… Click Here for our donation page

However please consider registering for the PRE-AUTHORIZED GIVING PLAN (EFT - Electronic Fund Transfer) for your Church contributions. 
EFT helps especially during these uncertain pandemic times by:

• saving the expense of purchasing boxes of contribution envelopes (approx. $1 500 / year) 

• enabling your support to the parish to be continued, allowing the parish's re-occurring maintenance expenses to be paid, even if you are not present on the weekend or if mass is cancelled

• you will receive a donation tax receipt at the end of the year

  Click Here for EFT form

Planning for end of life on earth is a difficult time for everyone. Be prepared and consider making us your charity of choice in lieu of flowers or leaving a bequest in your will. All donations in your memory will be issued a tax receipt to the donor and a note will be sent to the family letting them know of their generosity in your memory.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED GENEROSITY.

Please contact the office if you require assistance. We require quite a few parishioners to use this method since the banking fees are quite high. Please consider using this method of donating.

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

We celebrate the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul on June 29th.

Both apostles share the same feast day, for these two were one; and even though they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, and Paul followed. And so we celebrate this day made holy for us by the apostles’ blood. Let us embrace what they believed, their life, their labors, their sufferings, their preaching, and their confession of faith. ~Saint Augustine of Hippo

June 29: Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles—Solemnity

Simon was born in Bethsaida, near the Sea of Galilee. He and his brother Andrew were fishermen, accepting Jesus’ invitation to become His first disciples and “fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19). John’s Gospel has Andrew following Jesus first and bringing Simon to Him. Jesus tells Simon, “‘You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas (which is translated Peter)” (John 1:42). In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus changed Simon’s name to Peter when He said to him, “I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matthew 16:18–19).

Peter emerged as the Church’s central leader after Pentecost. For a decade in Jerusalem, he preached, performed miracles, and converted many. He then traveled to Rome, established the Church there, and became its first bishop. Around AD 64, he was martyred during Emperor Nero’s persecutions. Tradition says that Peter asked to be crucified upside down because he did not deem himself worthy to die the same way that Jesus died. His tomb lies under the main altar of Saint Peter’s Basilica.

Saul was a Roman citizen born in Tarsus, modern-day Turkey. As a young man, he studied at the rabbi Gamaliel’s school in Jerusalem. After Jesus’ ascension, Saul fiercely persecuted the early Church, in part responsible for the proto-martyr Stephen’s death (Acts 7:58). While traveling to Damascus to persecute Christians, Paul was knocked to the ground and struck blind. He heard Jesus say, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” (Acts 9:4). Jesus directed Saul to a disciple named Ananias who baptized him. Saul spent three years in intense prayer and study, eventually returning to Jerusalem where Barnabas testified to the truth of Paul’s conversion to the other disciples.

Using his Roman name, Paul spent ten years as a missionary throughout the Mediterranean. Imprisoned in Jerusalem for a couple of years, he was sent to Rome for trial and met up with Saint Peter. According to tradition, Paul was beheaded just outside the city. When his head fell, it bounced three times, giving rise to three springs of water, marked today by the Abbey of the Three Fountains.

Saints Peter and Paul are the Church’s foundational pillars. Peter represents the Church’s stability and the office of the Vicar of Christ. Paul represents the Church’s mission of evangelization and is the Church’s first theologian for his epistles that expound on the Gospels. One tradition holds that both died on June 29, making them twin martyrs and reminding us that as the Church remains grounded in the ancient Truth, it must grow and flower in its understanding of the mysteries of faith.

Saints Peter and Paul, you responded to Christ’s call with total abandonment to His holy will. Through you, the Church was founded and began to grow. Please pray that I will fully devote myself to the ongoing mission of the Church, so that God can use me according to His holy will. Saints Peter and Paul, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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CONGRATS FR. JOE

10 years of volunteer work with Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre for his unwavering loyalty, exemplary leadership and steadfast dedication with the Roman Catholic Chaplaincy program by visiting with the inmates most Fridays.
Fr. Joe was presented this letter from the Deputy Solicitor General, Correctional Services and 10 year pin and key chain.

Fr. Joseph Durkacz's 40th Anniversary (May 11, 2025)

We celebrated Fr. Joe’s 40th anniversary as a diocesan priest on Saturday May 10th & Sunday May 11th.
Thank you for coming and showing him your appreciation.
We are truly blessed to have him as our parish priest here at Sts. Peter & Paul Parish.

This is the prayer card Fr. Joe gave to his guests at his ordination.