St. Anne’s early sanctuary lamp has returned from being recently refurbished and will soon once again take its rightful place at the heart of the sanctuary in front of Our Lord’s Tabernacle.

The lamp will be blessed and returned to service by Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP during the Easter Vigil on Saturday, April 19^th 2014.

Dating from the 1840s, the lamp was found damaged and lying in pieces in the organ loft when St. Clement Parish arrived at St. Anne in 2012 and was restored by Turn of the Century Lighting, a Toronto firm specializing in the restoration of antique lighting fixtures.

Restoration work is expensive. The cost for refurbishing and re-installing the lamp is $6, 554, half of which has been raised in special donations received so far.  A further $3,350 is required to meet the total costs.  If you would like to contribute to the costs of the lamp’s restoration, please be sure to mark your cheque or envelope with the direction:  “For Sanctuary Lamp”.

Thank you your generosity!

The old St. Anne Church sanctuary lamp, symbol of the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, had been stored away in the choir loft after the renovations of the 1960’s.  It is currently being restored.  It weighs 95 lbs.  It has many dents and needs to be replated.  We hope to have the work done by March of 2014, when we plan to return it to its original location in the sanctuary.  Please keep this project in your prayers.