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 St.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.. For directions click here.

February 7th:  5th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Click 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time for the readings.

• Being a prophet, means we speak for the Lord - to take a public stand for Him even at the cost of being rejected.
• When Isaiah was called to be a prophet, he realized his unworthiness before the all Holy God, and needed purification.
• God invites all of us to a personal relationship with Him. This requires us to undergo two types of purification: of the senses, and of the soul (intellect and will).
• Following the miraculous catch of fish, Peter realizes his need for purification: his purification of the senses takes place after he denies Christ three times; his purification of the soul takes place between the Ascension and Pentecost, after which he is able to live out fully his prophetic role.
• What about you? Have you undergone a spiritual awakening and purification? If not, perhaps God is inviting you to such an experience, thereby having access to the graces you need to become a zealous follower of Christ.

Hymns as sung by the 11:00 am Choir.

Processional:   HOLY, HOLY, HOLY! ,   lyrics
Offertory:   LEAVE YOUR FISHING NETS
Communion 1:   LIKE A SHEPHERD HE FEEDS HIS FLOCK
Communion 2:   LAUDATE OMNES GENTES LAUDATE DOMINUM
Recessional:   FAITH OF OUR FATHERS ,   lyrics

February 2010 - Overview for the Month

The month of February is dedicated to the Holy Family.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul.

For overview of month including Papal Intentions, click HERE.

Book Review of "Canadian Converts"

Click HERE to read an insightful review of this captivating book by Herman Goodden, from Catholic Insight Magazine.

Canadian Converts is one of the first books published by Justin Press, a new Ottawa-based Canadian Catholic printing house.

Click HERE for details of this and other books.

These books can also be purchased at St. Patrick's Gift Shop.

We live in a secular culture. The attitude of many towards Christianity is scepticism if not outright rejection. Surveys indicate that atheism is a growing concern.

Question: What are you doing to address the issue? We all receive the following admonition in 1 Peter 3: "Should anyone ask you for the reason for this hope of yours, be ever ready to reply, but speak gently and respectfully."

Are you ready to explain and defend the basic tenets of our faith? Are you equipped to articulate our faith?


Dr. Tim Lau will be offering seven Wednesday sessions beginning on February 24th, and ending April 7th. These sessions will provide you with a foundation to conform to St. Peter's admonition. Each session will be held in the Basilica Scavi (basement), from 7:30 to 8:30pm ...click HERE for details.

All are welcome.

On November 24th, 2009, Richard Bastien delivered an enlightening lecture entitled The Issue of God Today at the Theology on Tap lecture series. It dealt with Fideism, Modernism, Postmodernism and Catholicism. Mr. Bastien shows how each of them has developed on the basis of a particular understanding of the role of faith and reason in the quest for truth. More specifically, he argued that these worldviews are mutually exclusive and that each of us is bound to make a choice between Mohammed, Descartes, Nietzsche and Benedict XVI.

To listen to this compelling talk, click on LECTURE.
To listen to the "questions and answers" which followed the lecture, click on Q's & A's.
To read the text of his lecture, click on The Issue of God Today

On Liberalism

Mr. Bastien also wrote a related paper on Liberalism. It defines the Zeitgeist of the last half century and will likely continue its triumphant march over the foreseeable future. It permeates all our institutions - our schools, our colleges and universities, our governments, our judicial system, including human rights tribunals, and even our churches. It is thus important to understand where this ideology came from and how it works.
To read it, click on Liberalism in a Postmodern Age

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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