The latest bulletins can be found below :

2025-03-30 Dominica Quarta in Quadragesima

2025-03-23 Dominica Tertia in Quadragesima

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:

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:

PAD–Authorization Form–rev

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

Today’s Readings:

https://www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl

Livestreams (Sundays and Major Feasts) :
https://www.youtube.com/@st.clementsparishparoisses8409/streams

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

Followed by Holy Mass at 7:30.

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

https://stclementparish.flocknote.com/

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.

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

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.

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

https://stclement-ottawa.org/en/bookstore/

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.

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 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 !

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

Below you will find a video describing the work which took place for the restoration of our adoring angels.  Many thanks to Steve and Pauline Winogron for making this possible !

Fr. Deprey has asks that all families consider praying the 15 decades of the rosary every day as a means to obtain a positive resolution to our current coronavirus crisis.

To many of you this may seem daunting ?  If your days are quite busy, consider praying a morning rosary for your morning prayers, then a 2nd rosary spread throughout the day (i.e. pausing from your activities to pray a decade each hour), closing with a family rosary in the evening.  This can be done.

I would also encourage you all to wear the Miraculous Medal of St. Catherine Labouré which was first produced by the Daughters of Charity.  During the cholera outbreak in Paris in 1832, which claimed 20,000 lives, the first medals were being produced.  The sisters started to distribute the first 2,000 of them, especially to infected people who filled the hospitals.  The healings increased, including a lessening of emotional distress. So great was the effect that the people began to call it the “miraculous medal”.  We need all the help we can get !

Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee !  Amen.