First parish of the diocese, Hamilton 1827
Mass and Devotions times
Weekend Mass Times: Saturday at 5 p.m.; Sunday at 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.
Weekday Mass Times (effective September 1, 2023): Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.;
Wednesdays, Thursdays* & First Fridays of the month (September to June) and Fridays in Advent and Lent at 8 a.m.
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturdays 3:45 to 4:40 p.m. (last penitent at 4:30 p.m.); and by appointment;
Public Rosary: following the Wednesday-Friday morning Masses.
Eucharistic Adoration & Benediction: from end of Wednesday morning Mass to 7 p.m.
Perpetual Help Novena: following the Thursday morning Mass
Parish News
Easter Sunday 2024
photography by Paul Kiely
These Forty Days begins with flood
Food Bank Chicken Delivery
CWL Giving Tree delivers
Ministry Fair 2023
We wish to thank those of you who were able to attend/prepare for the ministry weekend in any capacity, and for
Pastor’s Reflections
To know, to choose
Mass readings for the 3rd Sunday of Easter:Acts 3.13-15, 17-19 Psalm 4.1, 3, 6, 8 1 John 2.1-5 Luke 24.35-48 We are faced with choices; and there’s a persistent human desire to avoid choices, to “have one’s cake and to eat it too,” to “have it both ways” even when a decision is needed and […]
A tangible need
Mass readings for the 2nd Sunday of Easter:Acts 4.32-35 Psalm 118.2-4, 16-18, 22-24 1 John 5.1-6 John 20.19-31 In the run up to Easter, there were a number of stories about Christian revival in the United Kingdom, in Europe, among notable public intellectuals around the world. And we might say, ‘hallelujah!’ but for what we […]
Easter Sunday
There was an item in the National Post recently concerning an RCMP briefing paper for the federal government. While heavily redacted – that is, censored to protect sensitive information – there was still enough to make it a depressing read. Our national police force’s analysts forecast serious civil unrest in this country in the next […]