Upcoming Events

Consecrate yourself and those you love to Jesus, through Mary. Join this home retreat beginning November 05, with daily readings and prayer (link).

This retreat leads into our Advent Evening of Light at St. Dominic Parish on Tuesday December 08, 2026 – The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Please arrive at 6:45 pm.

Surrounded by over 1,000 candles and our new Heart and Cross pillars of Light, our Hour of Grace liturgy will include prayer, Scripture, music and reflection. Retreat participants will conclude their journey with the Morning Glory Consecration Prayer at the end of the liturgy.

Everyone is welcome, whether or not you participate in the retreat. A reception will follow in the parish hall.

Christmas Mass Times:

Dec 24 – Christmas Eve:

• 5:00 pm – (Carols begin at 4:45 pm)
• 7:15 pm – (Carols begin at 7:00 pm)
• 11:30 pm Midnight Mass – (Carols begin at 11:15 pm)

Dec 25 – Christmas Day:

• 9:00 am
• 11:00 am – (Children’s Mass with Nativity Play)

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God – Holy Day of Obligation

• Dec 31 – 5:00 pm
• Jan 01 – 10:00 am

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Reservations are NOT required for any Masses. Have a blessed Christmas!

Today we remember the moment when Jesus died for our sins. He took on the consequences of sin (death) for us. He is the seed of the woman who would crush the serpent’s head. He is the lamb that God would provide. He is the crucified sign that heals whoever looks upon Him. He is the true Passover sacrifice that cleanses those who wash themselves in His blood. He is our God who took our death upon Himself, so that we could remain in relationship with Him. What a generous and merciful God we have! Today we remember that moment.

• 11:00 a.m. – Children’s Service with Passion Play
• 3:00 p.m. – Solemn Good Friday Service

Jesuit missionaries worked among the Huron (Wendat), an Iroquoian-speaking people who occupied territory in the Georgian Bay area of Central Ontario. (They were not part of the Iroquois Confederacy, initially made up of five tribes south and east of the Great Lakes.) The area of their traditional territory is called Huronia. The Huron in this area were farmers, fishermen and traders who lived in villages surrounded by defensive wooden palisades for protection. Sainte-Marie among the Hurons was the headquarters for the French Jesuit Mission to the Huron Wendat people.

By the late 1640s, the Jesuits believed they were making progress in their mission to the Huron, and claimed to have made many converts. But, the priests were not universally trusted. Many Huron considered them to be malevolent shamans who brought death and disease wherever they travelled; after European contact, the Huron had suffered high fatalities in epidemics after 1634 of smallpox and other Eurasian infectious diseases.

The nations of the Iroquois Confederacy considered the Jesuits legitimate targets of their raids and warfare, as the missionaries were nominally allies of the Huron and French fur traders. Retaliating for French colonial attacks against the Iroquois was also a reason for their raids against the Huron and Jesuits.

In 1642, the Mohawk captured René Goupil, and Father Isaac Jogues, bringing them back to their village of Ossernenon south of the Mohawk River. They ritually tortured both men and killed Goupil. After several months of captivity, Jogues was ransomed by Dutch traders and the minister Johannes Megapolensis from New Netherland (later Albany). He returned for a time to France, but then sailed back to Quebec. In 1646 he and Jean de Lalande were killed during a visit to Ossernenon intended to achieve peace between the French and the Mohawk.

Other Jesuit missionaries were killed by the Mohawk and martyred in the following years: Antoine Daniel (1648), Jean de Brébeuf (1649), Noël Chabanel (1649), Charles Garnier (1649), and Gabriel Lalemant (1649). All were canonized in 1930 as the Canadian Martyrs, also known as the North American Martyrs.

The Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, Ontario, the site of the Jesuits’ missionary work among the Huron, is the National Shrine to the Canadian Martyrs.