We meet on Tuesdays from 7:00 – 9:00 pm at the Patro d’Ottawa, 40 Cobourg Street (basement).   Check the bulletin for this week’s topic.  For more information speak with Fr. Deprey.

Archbishops Advent Message 2018

We were  privileged to have Pontifical Mass at Notre-Dame Cathedral at 7:30 pm on Friday Nov. 23rd, the Feast of St. Clement.  Photos of the Mass can be found here:

http://stclement-ottawa.org/en/pontifical-mass-at-the-cathedral-friday-nov-23rd-2018/

and here:

More photos

We are pleased to be able to share with you Archbishop Prendergast’s sermon :

2018-11-23 Bilingue 50e St. Clement Golden Jubilee

In attendance were Fr. Joseph Bisig, first Superior General of the FSSP, Fr. Andrzej Komorowski, current Superior General, and Fr. Michael Stinson, District Superior.

Refreshments followed in the Cathedral hall.

Many thanks to our Archbishop for inviting us to the Cathedral for this Mass, in this the 50th year of the Latin Mass Community of Ottawa which became St. Clement Parish.

Many thanks to Beryl Devine, Rachel Laurin and our parish choir for organizing this special evening of sacred music for us all !  And to Pam Janek, Mary Lavallée, and the volunteers for the hot chocolate and mulled wine afterwards.  It was an enjoyable evening !

Fr. Bisig, current rector of Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Denton, Nebraska, gave a talk at the cafeteria of École Publique de la Salle (501 Old St. Patrick St.) on November 24th on the history of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.   Fr. Bisig was the first Superior General of the FSSP.  Father took questions after his talk.  We are grateful that he could be with us on this our 50th anniversary!

“Pro Organo Ottawa” Organ Recital   *   Récital d’orgue « Pro Organo Ottawa »

Philip Crozier (UK/ Montréal)

Friday October 26 at 7:30 pm  *   Le vendredi 26 octobre à 19h30

St. Clement Parish at St. Anne Church  *  Paroisse Saint Clément à l’Église Sainte-Anne
(528 Old St Patrick Street)

Tickets/Billets: $25 (at the door/à la porte)
($20 seniors/aînés –  $15 students/étudiants)

Post, Morel, Buxtehude, Bach, Vierne, Wiedermann,
Ropek, Kodály, Parry, Bédard, Guridi

Season tickets / Billets de saison: $70 ($55 seniors/aînés, $35 students/étudiants)

By cheque / Par chèque:

RCCO – Pro Organo
Box 2270
Station D, Ottawa
K1P 5W4

Tax Receipts given for donations over $10.00
Reçu d’împôts en échange de votre contribution

Sponsored by the Royal Canadian College of Organists
Parrainé par le Collège Royal Canadien des Organistes

** 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)