Our Knights of Columbus (Council 6579) raised $1423.60 from its Spring Bottle Drive, including about $500 dollars in

Where we make our home
Fr. Whitfield's homily for the 13th Sunday In Ordinary Time

Baptisms at St. Augustine's Parish

Weddings at St. Augustine's Parish

Worship and fellowship most restrictions lifted; some exceptions (March 18, 2022)
Effective March 21, 2022 most pandemic restrictions will be lifted with respect to both worship and parish fellowship activities.
- Masks are no longer required in the church, parish offices, meeting spaces and parish hall.
- Physical distancing is no longer required.
- Celebrations of Children’s Liturgy of the Word (and other youth ministry) is permitted. Although with respect to the children’s liturgy, this might not be available until the fall of this year.
- The Sign of Peace may be given, preferably a bow instead of a handshake.
- However, for the time being masks will continue to be worn by priests and extraordinary ministers of communion for the distribution of the blessed sacrament.
- Those who wish to receive communion on the tongue will continue to receive the sacrament after all others.
- Collections at mass will continue to be done as people enter or leave (i.e. no passing of the basket!)
- Vaccination and testing requirements for liturgical ministers (ushers, servers, lectors and ministers of communion) are lifted.
- Contact tracing for use of the parish centre or when entering the parish offices is no longer required.
- Holy water is again permitted at our entrance. According to the diocesan memorandum sent February 24, “The latest medical opinion from the Worship Safe Committee of the ACBO informs us that… transmission (of COVID-19) by fomites (touching inanimate objects) or by food and water does not appear to occur with the Omicron variant.”
- Choirs are permitted.
- For the immediate future, we will continue to stream/offer a recording online of the whole of the Sunday mass.
- Confessions will resume in our church confessional, Saturdays 3:45 to 4:40 p.m., prior to the 5 o’clock mass.
The dispensation from the Sunday obligation is still in force.
First parish of the diocese, Hamilton 1827



Mass and Devotions times
SATURDAY/SUNDAY MASS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE AND RUMBLE.
Weekend Mass Times: Saturday at 5 p.m.; Sunday at 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.
Weekday Mass Times: Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 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
Compline (Night Prayer): NEXT — TBA
Parish News

Holy Week gallery
Photos by Paul Kiely, parish photographer; B. Whitfield et al.

They shall not be forgotten
It's interesting what one finds poking around in the files! Our parish secretary, Cindy de Nobrega, recently discovered

CWL Plant sale underway

Garden Work starting soon!
Equipment has been dropped off so that several projects can get underway this spring. Among them is an urgent

New security lighting
St. Augustine is continuing to upgrade its basic facilities toward making our parish a safe and comfortable place for
Pastor’s Reflections

Where we make our home
Mass readings for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time:1 Kings 19.16b, 19-21 Psalm 16.1-2, 5, 7-11 Galatians 5.1, 13-18 Luke 9.51-62 There are few (if any) harsher sentiments as expressed by Jesus here than anywhere else in the gospels. He is pretty blunt in speaking of the many people who are spiritual cowards, fence-sitters with […]

Community of the Trinity
Mass Readings for the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity:Proverbs 8.22-31 Psalm 8.3-8 Romans 5.1-5 John 16.12-15 We are made, men and women, in the image and likeness of God. That’s central to our faith and tells us we are to live up to something far greater than ourselves; it is our basic vocation. What then […]

The one Universal Holy Spirit
Mass readings for Pentecost:Acts 2.1-11 Psalm 104.1, 24, 29-31, 34 1 Corinthians 12.3-7, 12-13 John 20.19-23 When we think of Pentecost, we naturally focus on the dramatic coming of the Holy Spirit to the Church. We have a vivid description of the tongues of fire touching each of the disciples. Jesus in the gospels speaks […]