Mass in Canada

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I had an interesting experience last night. I’m in Canada at the moment visiting a friend and picking up a puppy. She’s Jewish, but one of her good friends is Catholic so I was able to go with her to Mass last night for the Vigil Mass. It’s a tiny church (I’m in the middle of nowhere) and the priest serves four parishes (so, they have a shortage here like we do in the US). Anyway, the friend I went to Mass with is from Quebec and we compared notes a bit, finding some of the same problems of small parishes, large parishes, old and young…I told her I went to the TLM back home and she was surprised, she’s not heard of a parish that does that.

There was a pipe organ, but no organist 😦 People walking to Mass (those that live in the town) in snow in -7C weather is inspiring though, nothing stops them from coming! The priest didn’t miss a beat when I knelt and received Communion on the tongue, he even smiled a little.

Just out of curiosity are there EF Masses here in Canada?
 
Elisabeth51 said:
I had an interesting experience last night. I’m in Canada at the moment visiting a friend and picking up a puppy. She’s Jewish, but one of her good friends is Catholic so I was able to go with her to Mass last night for the Vigil Mass. It’s a tiny church (I’m in the middle of nowhere) and the priest serves four parishes (so, they have a shortage here like we do in the US). Anyway, the friend I went to Mass with is from Quebec and we compared notes a bit, finding some of the same problems of small parishes, large parishes, old and young…I told her I went to the TLM back home and she was surprised, she’s not heard of a parish that does that.

There was a pipe organ, but no organist 😦 People walking to Mass (those that live in the town) in snow in -7C weather is inspiring though, nothing stops them from coming! The priest didn’t miss a beat when I knelt and received Communion on the tongue, he even smiled a little.

Just out of curiosity are there EF Masses here in Canada?
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Yes, but Canada is very big with a widely spread population. Some diocese do not offer a TLM. But they are there to be found in most major centres.
-7C that’s nothin’. Some of us up here had to deal with -40C last week. It wasn’t pretty, but many folks still made it out to Mass! 👍
 
GloriaMaria said:
Yes, but Canada is very big with a widely spread population. Some diocese do not offer a TLM. But they are there to be found in most major centres.
-7C that’s nothin’. Some of us up here had to deal with -40C last week. It wasn’t pretty, but many folks still made it out to Mass! 👍
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I’m definitely in the middle of nowhere where my friend is–Dundalk—and apparently I am well acclimatised, it was -22 when I got here Wednesday and thought it was nice out yesterday 🙂

Looks like from the listing in that link above that it is offered in this Diocese, but it would be quite a drive–esp in winter–from where I am. I’m really glad I got to go to Mass at all–I wasn’t sure how it would work, but it did 🙂

I truly love it here, I don’t want to go home!!
 
freshwind said:
yes…there is…many

fsspca.unzilla.com/

web2.airmail.net/carlsch/EFMass/churches.htm

and there are many diocesan E.F. masses as well, we have one here in our diocese

my guess is that there are many folks that are not aware of it if they do not attend, or are not looking for it?
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There are none in my diocese (St-Hyacinth). There are 4 in Quebec from your second link. The closest one is a 100 km drive for me.

Instead I go to Mass at the abbey i’m affiliated with (Saint-Benoît-du-Lac) which is a 40 km drive. It’s OF but the propers and ordinary are in Latin Gregorian chant (Greek Kyrie of course), and the rest is in French plainchant. It is very beautiful and reverent.

The abbey’s website: St-benoit-du-lac
 
OraLabora said:
There are none in my diocese (St-Hyacinth). There are 4 in Quebec from your second link. The closest one is a 100 km drive for me.

Instead I go to Mass at the abbey i’m affiliated with (Saint-Benoît-du-Lac) which is a 40 km drive. It’s OF but the propers and ordinary are in Latin Gregorian chant (Greek Kyrie of course), and the rest is in French plainchant. It is very beautiful and reverent.

The abbey’s website: St-benoit-du-lac
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Oh that sounds beautiful!!!
 
In Winnipeg, MB there is only one EM, and its held at a small, part-time parish in the city’s west end - St. Anne’s Parish. It was re-introduced only about a year and a half ago. Prior to that, no latin mass, on a regular basis, had been held here for some 30 years or so…

So, its not common, but it seems to be making a bit of a comeback.
 
Yuppers! One or two in Calgary (Cowtown) and a couple in Edmonton (City of Champions) 😃
I am unable to attend EF Mass right now (I don’t think my parents are very supportive of it), but hopefully someday I will. :o
 
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