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Latest Parish Bulletin & Rosary with the Priests
The latest bulletins can be found below :
2025-04-20 Dominica Resurrectionis
PRAY THE ROSARY WITH Fr. Deprey, Fr. Breton, and Fr. Debow (in English or Latin!) :
Our Latin Rosary Prayers can be downloaded here for printing:
Latin Rosary Prayers
ENGLISH:
LATIN:
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How to Donate to the Parish
Providing for the financial needs of our parish
Our parish continues to incur expenses for such items as electricity, heating, repairs, insurance, etc. Although our financial statements show a very solid financial position for our parish, we can very quickly deplete our resources without access to our regular collections. If you are in a position to do so, we invite you to support our parish financially and on a regular basis.
The following options are available for donating to our parish:
1) By obtaining a parish collection envelope box through our parish office, which can be dropped off during Mass or sent in the mail. The parish will produce a tax receipt for any donations made using it:
Form to get Sunday Collection Box of envelopes
2) Through a monthly direct transfer from your bank account to the parish bank account (Pre-Authorized Giving). The form used to initiate PAD is attached below. If you would like to use this process for your donations please complete the form and mail (or drop it off) to the parish office. If you do not wish to continue this method of giving, it can be terminated upon written notice to the parish. The parish will produce a tax receipt for any donations made using PAD:
3) Using your credit card by going to the St. Clement Parish Web Page stclement-ottawa.org and clicking “Donate to the Parish” link and filling out the required form at the link below. Regular donations using this credit card method can be cancelled at any time at canadahelps.org. Canada Helps itself will send you the tax receipt :
Credit Card donations to St. Clement Parish
4) E-Transfers: The parish can now accept Interac e-transfer payments if you provide the following email to your bank: finances@saintclement.ca . The answer to the question that you provide the bank when you create the transfer must be “Clement“. You must specify the reason of the payment in the comment area when you create the transfer. Please be sure to provide your full name and address. The parish will then be able to provide a tax receipt.
5) Donations of Securities and Mutual Funds may also be donated using the link below: Canada Helps will send you the tax receipt:
Securities & Mutual Funds – Canada Helps
Thank you to those already using one of these options for your donations. You can be assured that the confidential personal information you provide, particularly for online giving, will be kept in a secure place in our parish office.
If you have any questions or require further information please contact our parish secretary, at 613-565-9656 or email office.st.clement@rogers.com
In Christo,
Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP
Pastor
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Golf Day 2025 – Tuesday, August 5
St. Clement Parish is holding its eleventh annual golf day and dinner Tuesday, August 5, 2025, to raise money for the ongoing restoration and beautification of St. Anne Church, a historic stone church located in the Lowertown area of Ottawa and a designated heritage building. St. Anne Church has been home to St. Clement Parish since 2012.
The golf committee has already started organizing this year’s golf fundraiser. These events have proved to be great successes for our parish, and you can help make this year’s tournament even more successful by identifying, on the attached document, businesses you deal with who we can approach to be sponsors.
Thank you for your help with this important fundraiser for our parish.
The details may be found in the attached poster:
Attached is the Registration Form for you and your friends to fill out :
Registration Form – English+French -2025
The golf day is an enjoyable social event for our parish and an important fundraiser. With your help, we can raise many thousands of dollars for the needs of our church building.
Thank-you for your support and God Bless !
In Christo,
Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP
Pastor
St. Clement Parish
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Today’s Readings / Livestream Link
Today’s Readings:
https://www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl
Livestreams (Sundays and Major Feasts) :
https://www.youtube.com/@st.clementsparishparoisses8409/streams

Parish Financial Statements for 2024
Our 2024 financial statements are now available for your review, with adjoining comments from our Parish Finance Council. If you have any questions please contact Mr. John Fennelly, chairman of the parish finance council.
Visual Chart of 2024 Financial Statements
Explanation of 2024 Financial Statements
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Stations of the Cross on the Fridays of Lent, 6:45 pm
Followed by Holy Mass at 7:30.

Parish Updates via Flocknote Messaging
Subscribe to our Flocknote email for periodic updates and information on the parish schedule, news and events using the link below:

Pledge Drive (for a Parish Hall)
You will find more general information on the project itself here:
https://www.saintclement.ca/about
The Real Estate Committee of the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall met and passed a motion allowing our parish to continue to the Design Development phase of our Parish Hall project with the Architect. The approval of the Design Development phase is an important step forward in the architectural design process. We would like to thank the Archdiocese for their continued support and encouragement.
It needs to be emphasized that your pledges are essential to the process of securing a good mortgage with the Archdiocese, something we hope to work out as soon as possible. So if you have not yet made your pledges, we encourage you to do so now. Our electronic form can be submitted using the following link:
https://www.saintclement.ca/pledge.
Alternatively, you may print off the form using the PDF link below and submit it with the Sunday Collection:
Parish Hall Pledge Form EN FR (PDF)
Or to make a donation now, use the link below:
https://www.saintclement.ca/donate
We have received $415,000 in pledges and donations so far. Additionally, our recent parish dinner raised a further $15,137. 114 parishioners have submitted pledge forms and a further 103 parishioners have already donated to the campaign.
This is 46% of our goal which is a good start. We need to build on this momentum.
We appreciate the support from those who have contributed to the campaign so far. Initially, our pledge drive was seeking pledges for 2023, 2024 and 2025; however, since the pledge drive started late in 2023, we are extending the deadline for submitting your pledge form to Sunday, April 28, 2024. Additionally, we are adding 2026 to the pledge period.
If you have any questions or require additional information regarding either the parish hall project and/or the capital campaign, contact John Fennelly @ 613-867-0144 or send an email to info@saintclement.ca.
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FORMED Catholic Resource Available (Parish Subscription)
FORMED is a Catholic resource with thousands of Catholic movies, programs, audio recordings, and e-books. Through your donations we have been blessed to have been able to offer a one-year subscription accessible to all parishioners.
https://watch.formed.org/browse
There are 3 ways to access our parish subscription:
1) Click on this link using your computer and follow the prompts. Choose St. Clement Parish and indicate your email address. The rest is self-explanatory: https://signup.formed.org/
2) Download the app to your smart TV (search “Formed, Catholic”. Formed is usable on Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, and Chromecast. (note: you will need to first register at formed.org/signup before logging into the app).
3) Download the Formed app to your mobile device (iOS or Android) via App Store or Google Play Store.
We are grateful for the donations which made this one-year subscription possible ! If everyone contributed just $20 toward this service, we could continue offering it on a yearly basis.
Your donation can simply be placed in the Sunday collection, earmarked “Formed”. Or you could do the same using our Canada Helps online platform under the “Weekly Offering” link, by adding a comment that it would be for “Formed subscription”:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/st-clements-parishla-paroisse-st-clement/
Thank-you and God Bless!
In Christo,
Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP

Confraternity of St. Peter – Enrollment
The Confraternity of St. Peter is a sodality of members who wish to unite themselves to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter and aid in the work of our fraternity, primarily by their prayers.
The Confraternity of St. Peter is spread throughout the world, and is divided into three regions: The English-Speaking Region, the French-Speaking Region and the German-Speaking Region. For more information on these regions and the Confraternity in general, please visit the international website at :
https://www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter.
Members pray a decade of the Rosary and the Confraternity Prayer each day for the intentions of the Confraternity.
Enroll in the Confraternity online.
Or print and mail this enrollment form:
Confraternity Enrollment Form and Prayers.
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The FSSP Has Renewed its Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Lourdes

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Bookstore: Featured Items
For the most recent information on our Bookstore and Gift Shop, please refer to the link below:

Hand Missals for Sale
St. Clements has several hand missals for the Traditional Mass available in our bookstore, in English-Latin and in French-Latin. These may be purchased in our bookstore on Sundays before & after Masses. We also have smaller missals for children and several used missals at reduced prices .
In English:
The Roman Catholic Daily Missal (Angelus Press)
Features include: 1,980 pages, all liturgical texts in Latin and English, all readings both in Latin & English (Douay-Rheims), music of the Ordinary in Gregorian notation, gilt edges, five liturgically-coloured ribbons, sewn binding, rounded back with durable, and leather-like gold embossed flexible cover.
In French:
Missel Quotidien Complet (Éditions Ste-Madeleine)
Entièrement recomposé et conforme au code des rubriques du bienheureux Jean XXIII, ce missel latin-français comprend, avec l’Imprimatur de l’archevêque d’Avignon, Mgr Jean-Pierre Cattenoz, l’année liturgique au complet.

Decree of Pope Francis on the FSSP
https://www.fssp.org/en/official-communique-of-the-priestly-fraternity-of-st-peter/
Grateful to the Holy Father, the members of the Fraternity of St. Peter are in thanksgiving for this confirmation of their mission. They invite all the faithful who feel close to them as a spiritual family to attend or join them in prayer, and to pray especially for Pope Francis.

Restoration of St. Anne Statue

Stained Glass Window Repairs – Sanctuary
Restoration of the sanctuary windows is completed ! The exterior glass and wooden frames also needed repair. We discovered that they had been installed backwards at some point in their history, perhaps when the exterior windows were replaced at some point.
The photo above shows the previous arrangement (in black and white); the colour photos show how they are now arranged. The PDF file here can show you in more detail on your computer: Sanctuary Windows
This means we have restored them to their proper orientation, having the faces of the saints facing Our Lord, and Our Lord blessing us with his right hand, as is proper:
Before:
Restored:
We thank you for your donations which helped pay for this restoration work. May God reward you for your generosity !
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Restoration Video: The Resurrection of the Statue of St. Philomena
St. Clement Parish acquired, through the donation of a generous donor, a statue of St. Philomena. The journey was quite eventful so we would like to share the story with you. A video of the restoration of the statue can be found below. Fr. Breton had obtained the statue at the Shrine of St. Philomena in Mugnano, Italy (featured above). The statue looked like this in the shop:
Much to our dismay, while in the hands of the Italian postal service, she ended up arriving like this :
The Italian postal service did not respond to our request for assistance and/or reimbursement.
Unsure of what to do next in what seemed to be an impossible circumstance, we contacted Pauline Furmanczyk-Winogron at Brushworks Ottawa (https://www.statuerestorers.com/), who began a restoration process — we were totally amazed:
We were pleased with the result :
A video of the whole restoration process can be found below:
St. Philomena is the patron saint of children, youth, babies, infants, priests, sterility, virgins, and apparently, lost causes. Let us include her in our prayers — she will certainly pull together the pieces of the puzzle when things seem in disarray !
In Christo,
Fr. Erik Deprey, FSSP
Pastor