** Please note that the 7:00 am Mass is cancelled — we will only have one mass at 9:00 am (since Fr. Breton is away).

Our statue of Our Lady of Fatima, which we use for our Fatima Devotions the 13th of the month from May to October, has finally been restored !  We are very grateful for your donations which made this possible !

We are also awaiting the restoration of our statue of St. Anthony, as well as of two adoring angels recently donated to the parish !   Thank-you for continuing to donate toward these restoration projects !

Information on the art restorer associated with these projects can be found by visiting the following website:  https://www.statuerestorers.com .

May God reward you !

Fr. Breton will be away on the Youth Mission Trip to the Dominican Republic from Aug 5 to Aug 17. Please keep him and the youth group in your prayers! Masses are reduced as indicated in the bulletin.

7:30 pm High Mass and candle-lite procession.

Last year’s financial statements, including the 2018 budget are available at the entrance to the church or here below. If you have any questions please contact John Fennelly, Chairman, Parish Finance Council at 613-867-0144.

Copy of 2017 Financials–Dec 31–English on Letterhead (1)

2017 financial statements–comments to parishioners

Work on installing the new engineered hardwood floor that will replace the badly worn carpeting previously in place in the sanctuary is now well underway.  Installation is expected to take another two weeks before being complete and when finished, will include a new, larger platform on which the high altar will rest and have stairs whose curved profile match that of the sanctuary enclosure itself.

Spanning the 70 feet width of the transept, the sanctuary enclosure has made the floor installation something of a challenge at times for those installing it whose aim is a faultless fit in the new floor’s 145 year-old setting. Indeed, the curved profile necessitated the use of one-off computer-assisted design help to ensure the new installation conforms perfectly to the floor’s profile.

The estimated cost of the completed project is $51, 300 of which $11, 590 has been secured  so far by special parishioner donations. If you wish to contribute to the new floor, please use the “Maintenance and Restoration” envelope and please identify the portion you wish to allocate for the sanctuary floor. Thank you for your generous support.

High Mass at 7:30 pm

As part of our parish’s year-long 50th anniversary celebration, please join us for a lecture by author and Latin Mass apologist Dr. Peter Kwasniewski. His lecture, “The Supreme Expression of the Lex Orandi: Twelve Truths of the Faith Transmitted by the Roman Canon,” will be held on Saturday May 26 at 7pm at the auditorium at St. Paul’s University, 223 Main Street. Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $10. He will be selling and signing his books afterwards and complementary refreshments will be provided. Dr. Kwasniewski has written a number of books and is regularly published on the New Liturgical Movement website.  We would like to thank the anglophone chapter of our parish’s Domus Christiani group for sponsoring this event.

“The law of worship is the law of belief”  (Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi)

High Mass at 7:30 pm, with Benediction  (please note:  the procession to the park will take place on Sunday, as an External Solemnity, with First Communions)

After the 10:30 Pontifical Mass Sunday June 3th we will process to MacDonald Gardens Park on the corner of Cobourg & Heney, near the Church (weather permitting).  Let us pray for the children who will make their first communion that day.  His Grace, Archbishop Prendergast (Archbishop of Ottawa) will celebrate the mass, with Fr. Charles Ryan, FSSP, and Fr. Arnaud Devillers, FSSP as assistants. Fr. Ryan was the first FSSP pastor of St. Clement Parish; Fr. Devillers is the former District Superior which negotiated the coming of the FSSP to Ottawa. In conjunction with our First Holy Communions and in celebration of our parish’s 50th anniversary.  Reception to follow at the Patro gymnasium, 40 Cobourg St..

St. Clement’s will have High Mass at 10:00 am to mark the annual March for Life on Parliament Hill, which also coincides with the Feast of the Ascension this year !   Come join us as we pray and witness to the life of the unborn.

Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament for Divine Mercy — Sunday April 8 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.  Divine Mercy Chaplet will start at 3:00 pm closing with Benediction at 4:00 pm.

Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in aeternum misericordia eius   (Psaume 135)

This Lenten season is one of special significance to Saint Clement Parish for it was born at a simple Low Mass celebrated 50 years ago on what was then the first Sunday in Lent— March 3, 1968.

The Traditional Mass in Latin had by that time already been replaced liturgically in the Roman Catholic world but on that day 50 years ago, with the permission of Archbishop Joseph-Aurèle Ploudre, a small handful of the faithful gathered for the celebration of the Tridentine Mass in the chapel of the Monastery of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood on Ottawa’s Echo Drive. The mass offered that day was celebrated on the same altar that today stands in the sanctuary at Saint Anne Church.

Thanks to prayer, quiet forbearance and the grace of God, the modest Mass offered at the beginning of Lent in 1968 became the foundation stone upon which our parish was built.

Deo Gratias!

Holy Saturday:
10:00 pm Easter Vigil
(fulfills Sunday obligation)

Easter Sunday:
8:30 am Low Mass
10:30 am Solemn High Mass
**(the 6:30 pm Mass is cancelled)

Easter Monday:  
7:00 am Low Mass
9:00 am Low Mass   (no evening Mass today)

Topic:  The Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Starting with Sunday Masses on Mar. 18, and continuing in the evenings of Monday, March 19, through Friday, March 23, Father James Buckley, FSSP will preach a Lenten mission at St. Clement Parish.  The mission program is as follows:

Sunday March 18:

8:30 am, 10:30 am & 6:30 pm:   Fr. Buckley will preach at all masses.

Monday March 19 to Friday March 23:

6:30 pm Mass;  7:30 pm Mission Talks  (Confession available before and after)

Help us to spread the word:  Fr. Buckley Mission Poster

Topics:

Monday:  Penance & the Principle and Foundation of the Ignatian Exercises

Tuesday:  The Eucharist & Sin

Wednesday:  Marriage and the Four Last Things

Thursday:  The Mercy of God  (more time allotted for confessions afterwards)

Friday:  The Passion and Death of Our Lord  (more time allotted for confessions afterwards)

11-day Pilgrimage on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of St. Clement Parish

Sunday, July 22 to Thursday, August 2, 2018  (Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP, Chaplain)

Registration form, copy of passport, and nonrefundable deposit of $500 is due on or before Palm Sunday, March 25, 2018.  The balance of payment is due Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

Italy requires visitors to possess a passport valid for six months beyond the length of stay, which means the passport of pilgrims for Rome 2018 should not expire before February 2019.

Registering pilgrims without a current passport are asked to start the process of
acquiring one without delay.

Please make cheques payable to “Chartres Pilgrimage”

Registration Form (English)

Roma Brochure

For more information please contact Helena Champion at

Transportation to all events and activities is by public transport or on foot. This assumes pilgrims are in good physical shape, don’t mind a challenge, and are able to manoeuver their own luggage.

Pilgrimage Highlights:
❖ Accommodation in Rome 1 km from St. Peter’s Square
❖ Daily Mass in the Extraordinary Form
❖ Sunday Angelus and Apostolic Blessing
❖ Visits to St. Peter’s, the Vatican Necropolis, the Vatican Gardens, the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, St. John Lateran, the Scala Sancta , St. Mary Major
❖ Visit and Mass at FSSP parish SS. Trinita dei Pellegrini
❖ Tour of St. Clement Basilica, the Catacombs, ancient Roman sites
❖ Two days in the town of Assisi

The cost of the pilgrimage is $3,300 per person* and includes:
❖ Return overseas flight Ottawa to Rome (via Montreal), departing late afternoon July 22nd and returning August 2nd
❖ 8 nights’ accommodation in Rome
❖ Travel between Rome and Assisi
❖ Breakfast and evening meal each day
❖ Tour escort
❖ Entrance fees and guided tours
The cost does not include:
• transportation to and from airport in Canada
• travel and health insurance
• lunches
• alcoholic beverages
• tips
*additional fees apply for pilgrims wishing to have a single room

The 2018 pilgrimage to Rome is a not-for-profit initiative of St. Clement Parish, Ottawa. The organizers reserve the right to make changes to and/or substitute items on the itinerary due to circumstances beyond their control. Please note that pilgrims under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

“To go on pilgrimage really
means to step out of ourselves
in order to encounter God
where he has revealed
himself…”
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Way of the Cross Meditations Book – In order to help commemorate our parish’s 50th anniversary, we have published a Way of the Cross.  The book comes with a congratulatory letter from Archbishop Prendergast, as well as colour photographs of the stations as they are found in our church.  We are offering it free to parishioners, and we ask that you make a donation to the parish in accordance with your means.  You may get your copy at the bookstore.

February 4, 2018

Dear Parishioners:

Modified Design for Parish Hall

Thank you for your feedback regarding the initial design for our parish hall presented to you in May 2017.

A modified design incorporating many of your suggestions is now on display at the entrance to the church. It is also available on the parish website @ stclement-ottawa.org.

There are several significant changes with this new option, the main one being that the rectory would be retained but moved to the back of the lot by a house moving company.

Retaining the rectory yields significant advantages:

• our priests get to remain in a house that suits their needs and at the same time we can switch from the electrical heating to natural gas, resulting in major savings over time.
• while under construction our priests and the parish office will relocate to the house on 566 Old St. Patrick St. After completion of the project, the priests will return to the relocated/renovated rectory and the house at 566 Old St. Patrick St. will be sold.

  566 Old St. Patrick St.

This new design would mean a smaller hall with the seating capacity of the banquet room reduced from 288 with the initial plan to 224 with this design.

The main features of the hall, which would be handicap accessible throughout, are as follows:

Main Floor

• banquet room with a stage and seating capacity of 224. For a concert or conference we would be able to accommodate up to 279.
• terrace with an awning allowing for additional outside seating of 48.
• large, commercial-grade kitchen.
• large bookstore/gift shop offering quality reading material and religious articles.

Basement

• reception/office area with a private office for each priest and a small boardroom.
• all-purpose meeting room for parish groups, catechism instruction for children, and adult faith formation.
• separate room for choir practice.
• office space for rent to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
• ladies and men’s washrooms and storage rooms.
• some space set aside for future needs.
• accessible by stairs and elevator.

Design Parish Hall Modified Proposal Feb 2018 (PDF format)

The total estimated cost to move and renovate the rectory, and build the hall is approximately $2.3 million. If we proceed with this design we would use some of our funds on deposit with the Archdiocese of Ottawa as a downpayment and the eventual proceeds from the sale of 566 Old St. Patrick St. would leave us with a loan from the Archdiocese secured by a mortgage of approximately $1.1 million.

To cover mortgage payments and hall operating costs after applying income earned from the bookstore, rental of office space to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter and proceeds of fundraising would require an increase in our weekly collections of $650. With the present number of envelopes, this would represent an increase of approximately $3.00 per envelope each week.

Please review this modified design and provide feedback by placing your comments in the box beside the display. The display will be available until Sunday, March 4.

Once we have summarized your comments, we will convene a general meeting of parishioners to discuss them, consider changes, review a detailed budget, make a decision and move forward.

A parish hall is the next step in building a stronger more vibrant and united parish community. Thank you for keeping this important project in your prayers. If you haven’t already done so, please pick up the prayer card to St. Joseph at the entrance to the church and say the perpetual novena prayer to St. Joseph to provide for our temporal and spiritual needs.

If you have questions or require clarification, please contact Mr. Stéphane Lalonde at 613-446-9972 or Mr. Frank Tanner 613-233-1146, extension 226.

God Bless,

Father Erik Deprey, FSSP

Pastor

The Archdiocese of Ottawa is supporting the initiative of the Call for Conscience Campaign organized by the Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience.  This initiative is seeking the participation of Catholic parishes in raising awareness of euthanasia/assisted suicide and the discriminatory position in which doctors, caregivers, and healthcare providers find themselves. To be involved in notifying your local MPP concerning the conscience protection of healthcare workers wishing to abstain from any involvement in euthanasia/assisted suicide, be a part of the Call for Conscience Campaign. More info:  www.canadiansforconscience.ca.

To help with the campaign, download the documents below:

Archbishop Letter Call for Conscience Campaign January 2018
Sample Letter to Local MPP
Copy of HealthCare Conscience Sign-Up
Call for Conscience Campaign Information

With the exception of a few remaining details to be put in place, the stairs to the Issoudun pulpit installed in the nave last April are now in place. The pulpit will once again serve the purpose for which it was built once these remaining adjustments are completed and the sound system has been tested.

The stairs are the work of two very talented parishioners;  James Green and Michal Janek who carefully built a faithful replica of the original to ensure its faultless adaptation to the pulpit’s new position at Saint Anne.  The result is a respectful treatment of the original commissioned in 1912 for the church of Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur d’Issoudun outside of Lévis, Quebec.

Thank you for the generous support that made this project possible.