Parishioners have responded quickly and with overwhelming generosity to the campaign to raise funds to pay for the restoration of St. Anne’s early sanctuary lamp. A total of $3,340 in donations earmarked for the lamp has been received since the campaign was undertaken just prior to Holy Week and includes donations received during the Easter Weekend and the Sunday, April 27^th (High Mass) collection.

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

The cost of refurbishing the lamp is $6, 554, only half of which was in hand prior to Easter. The remaining amount needed to meet the restoration costs has now been met thanks to the immediate and very generous response of parishioners.

Additional funds received will be applied to the installation costs estimated at $1,200.  If you would like to help the parish meet the costs of installing the lamp, please be sure to mark your cheque or envelope with the direction:  “For Sanctuary Lamp”.

 Thank you your generosity!

*For more information on the history of the sanctuary lamp, please go to About on this site and click on the entry: “St. Anne’s Sanctuary Lamp returns to its rightful place”.

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!