• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

(905) 628-2880

St. Augustine’s Parish

St. Augustine's Parish

Hamilton

  • Home
  • Our Parish
    • Our Staff
    • Rental of facilities
    • Parish Advisory Council
  • Pastoral Services
    • Baptisms
    • First Communion & Confirmation
    • Weddings
  • Parish Ministries & Groups
    • Catholic Women’s League
    • Compassionate Care Ministry
      • Resources Guide for Seniors and Caregivers
    • Development and Peace
    • Youth-Ministry
    • Knights of Columbus
    • Music
    • St Augustine’s Men’s Fellowship Group
    • Volunteers
  • Contact Us
  • Mass Times
  • Parish Bulletin, Forms & Links
  • One Heart, One Soul
  • News
  • Events
    • Calendar
  • Prayer Request
  • FORMED

From our abundance to the Church in Peru

June 24, 2021 by St. Augustine's Parish

Chalice given to St. Augustine’s by the Knights of Columbus will find regular use in the prelature of Juli, Peru.

Fr. Francesco Cucchi, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish is heading up a project started this past Lent to help a tiny diocese in Peru at 4,800m above sea level, in the very rural region of Juli. The new bishop, His Excellency Ciro Quispe López was his classmate at the Gregorian University in Rome. He has been charged with building a new diocese in the prelature of Juli. He has 12 poor parishes. St. Anthony’s has committed to buying 12 sets of chasubles. The downtown Hamilton parish has put out a call for a dozen chalices, suggesting that some of the many chalices given as gifts by councils of the Knights of Columbus could be available.

Checking through our sacristy cupboards, one such chalice and paten set was found. After consulting with our local grand knight, Tom Muldoon, Father Whitfield contacted Father Cucchi to offer the set to the South American missionary diocese. It was gladly accepted and is now being readied along with other liturgical supplies for shipment to the Andes Mountains!

Juli, part of the district of Puno, forms the western shoreline of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world.

Category iconNews

Thou hast pierced our heart with thy love

Get in touch

Copyright © 2023 St. Augustine’s Parish. Design by Global
Return to top