Saint Patrick's Basilica has a long history in the City of Ottawa, being its first English-speaking Roman Catholic Parish. Your Church was completed in 1875 and was declared a Basilica on Saint Patrick's Day, March 1995.

Beautiful as it is, Saint Patrick's Basilica is primarily a place of worship and repentance - Catholics citywide make use of the confessional at Saint Patrick's. It also serves the downtown core and offers Masses before work (7:00a.m., 8:00a.m.), during lunch (12:15p.m.), and after the workday (4:30p.m.), with confessions before each service, and six Masses for Sunday Obligation.

For directions click HERE.

May 13th:  6th Sunday of Easter

Click 6th Sunday of Easter for the readings.

Agape Love for God and Neighbour
God's pruning through actual grace ...

Victoria Day Week-End Schedule

There will be a reduced Monday Mass schedule here at the Basilica during the long week-end in May. Scheduled for Monday May 21st, are two Masses preceded by confessions. The first Mass is at 7:00 a.m. and the second at 8:00 a.m. The Holy Hour with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Rosary will be held at 8:30 a.m. (There will be NO 12:15 p.m. or 4:30 p.m. Masses.) The Basilica will then be closed at 10:00 a.m. for the remainder of the day.

Please note that the Rectory Office, the Giftshop and the Msgr. French Lending Library will be closed all day Monday May 21st , Victoria Day.

National March For Life - 2012

Video clip:  March for Life in English filmed by Dunn media.

Click HERE to read report of Archbishop Prendergast's inspiring homily during the March for Life Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral.

Read the text of Archbishop Prendergast's homily:  ABORTION HURTS EVERYONE.

Bishop Nicola De Angelis of Peterborough in his homily to an over-flowing church in St. Patrick's Basilica reflected that without children there is no need for schools; without children there is no family, there is no future society... Big, Young Crowd Converges on Canada Capital to Defend Life

Click HERE to read the homily by Bishop De Angelis given at St. Patrick's Basilica.

Also read Canadian March for Life smashes previous attendance records: 19,500

View a slide show of the 2012 March For Life.

Vigil Of Eucharistic Adoration
Friday, May 18th, 2012, 8:30 p.m.
Saint Patrick's Basilica (in the Grotto)

Praying for priests, for an end to abortion and for world peace.
Continuous rosary, chaplet of Divine Mercy and Litany of Reparation

Vigil ends with Masses in the Basilica at 7:00 & 8:00 a.m., on Saturday.

May 2012 -  Overview for the Month

The month of May is dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary.

• Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun?
• Hail, holy Mother, thou who didst bring forth the King who rules heaven and earth forever and ever.

For overview of month including Papal Intentions, click HERE.

The Reception Of Anglicans Into Full Communion
St. Patrick's Basilica-Ottawa
On Divine Mercy Sunday - April 15th, 2012

"Today, after half a millennium, separated brethren are separated no more. We are brethren, rejoicing at the same banquet table. Hallelujah. ... I am overjoyed to be a part of your journey today and to welcome members of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church."

To read more of Archbishop Prendergast's homily click HERE.

Click the play button to listen to
Archbishop Prendergast's homily.
Link to mp3 file

visit a slide show of this historical occasion.

Canadian Anglican groups welcomed into Catholic Church : read an article by Deborah Gyapong who was received into full communion on the same day.

What's new in the Gift Shop

We are carrying Michael Coren's new book Heresy: Ten Lies They Spread About Christianity, and Mary Eberstadt's Adam and Eve After the Pill is back in stock. Also, in this month dedicated to Mary consider The Mysteries of Mary by Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, Scott Hahn's Hail, Holy Queen or Fulton Sheen's classic The World's First Love for a deeper understanding and appreciation of our Blessed Mother.

New DVD's: There Be Dragons on the life of Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, and Servant of All, Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

The Gift Shop and Bookstore have a large selection of First Communion and Confirmation gifts, cards, crucifixes, rosaries, jewellery, bibles and missals.

Browse the Gift Shop online.

Now available in the Gift Shop:

The blu-ray/DVD tribute to the exhibition of the Blessed John Paul II Stamp Collection is available in the Gift Shop.

Proceeds of the sale will be directed toward our Restoration Fund.

The Choirs Of Saint Patrick's Basilica
Invite You To join Us
For an exciting year of music, fun and companionship in the service of
Saint Patrick's Basilica's
MUSIC MINISTRY

Let's preserve the Organ that has sustained our musical offering for over 100 years!

St. Patrick's Basilica organ is in desperate need of renovations. The last time when major renovations to the organ were done date back to 1930.

Click HERE to find out how you can help.

Sanctuary Bell

When we hear the gentle dong of the Sanctuary bell, our attention is drawn to the Sanctuary, as we rise in celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. In honour of the Beatification of Blessed John Paul II on May 1 and in memory of the Stamp Exhibition of April 1-4, Our Knights of Columbus Council has donated the new Sanctuary Bell to the parish. The clergy and parish wish to express their sincere appreciation to all the Knights.

 

Over 100 books are available on our Web Portal in PDF format, including the Sermons of the Cure of Ars, the complete set of books by GK Chesterton, as well as books by some of the Church Fathers such as Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Therese of Lisieux.

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