Our Lady of Lourdes - February 11

World Day of the Sick

The Year for Priests

St. Columbkille, Patron of the Diocese of Pembroke

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"O Lord open my lips and my mouth shall declare your praise" Sunrise at St. Hedwig's, Barry's Bay

"The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life” Lumen Gentium

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Annual Pilgrimage to Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré

The Dioceses of Ottawa, Gatineau, Pembroke, Mont-Laurier, and Alexandrian-Cornwall August 9-10, 2008

World Youth Day 2008: Pembroke

Compilation of video clips taken during Days in the Diocese and World Youth Day 2008 in Australia. The song is the Our Father in Swahili and is taken from Civ4.

Today's Saint

Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives. Each saint the Church honors responded to an invitation from God to use his or her unique gifts. God calls each one of us to be a saint.

St. Jerome Emiliani (February 9, 2010)
A careless and irreligious soldier for the city-state of Venice, Jerome was captured in a skirmish at an outpost town and chained in a dungeon. In prison Jerome had a lot of time to think, and he gradually learned how to pray. When he escaped, he returned to Venice where he took charge of the education of his nephews--and began his own studies for the priesthood.

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People's Prayer during the Year for Priests

Dear Lord,
we pray that the Blessed Mother
wrap her mantle around your priests
and through her intercession
strengthen them for their ministry.
We pray that Mary will guide your priests
to follow her own words,
"Do whatever He tells you" (Jn 2:5).
May your priests have the heart of St. Joseph,
Mary's most chaste spouse.
May the Blessed Mother's own pierced heart
inspire them to embrace
all who suffer at the foot of the cross.
May your priests be holy,
filled with the fire of your love
seeking nothing but your greater glory
and the salvation of souls.
Amen.

St. John Vianney, Pray for us!

History

Vicariate Apostolic of Pontiac (1882–1898)

The Vicariate Apostolic of Pontiac was created by a decree dated July 11, 1882, by Pope Leo XIII.

The Vicariate comprised the County of Pontiac, the County of Renfrew, the northern townships of the County of Frontenac, Addington and Hastings, sixteen townships in the County of Haliburton, and a part of Haliburton, as well as all the territory included between the height of land, on the south, the Hudson Bay, James Bay, and the Great Whale River, as far as Lake Apiokacumish on the north, the 91st degree of longitude on the west and the 72nd degree on the east.

Narcisse Z. Lorrain, nominated on July 14, was consecrated as Bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of Pontiac on September 21, 1882.