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- Weekday Mass (see bulletin)
- Sunday - 8:00am
- Sunday - 11:00am
- Last Sunday of each month
Latin Mass in Extra-Ordinary form - 9:15am - Confessions:
Wednesday 6:30-6:50pm
Friday 6:00-6:50pm
Saturday 11:00-noon
Sunday 1:30-10:50am
... and by arrangement - Eucharistic Adoration:
Monday to Thursday
(schedule) - Children's Holy Half-Hour:
after the Sunday 8:00AM Mass
Rev. Fr. Chris Shalla (Parish Priest),
35 Karol Wojtyla Square,
P.O. Box 309, Barry’s Bay, Ontario K0J 1B0
Office/Rectory: 613-756-2243
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00AM to 3:00PM
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Daily Gospel
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First Reading - Acts 7:51-8:1a51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you also.52 ...
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Psalm - Ps 31:3cd-4,6,7b,8a,17,21ab3cd Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me. 4For thou art my strength and my refuge;...
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Gospel - Jn 6:30-3530 They said therefore to him: What sign therefore dost thou shew, that we may see, and may believe thee? What dost thou work?31...
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Welcome to Saint Hedwig's online where you can access a dimension of the spiritual and corporal Body of Christ that is our Roman Catholic community. Located in Barry's Bay and area, in the heart of the Madawaska Valley, Ontario, we are proud of our rich cultural heritage -- Kashub, Polish, Irish, French-Canadian, Native, and a colourful sprinkling of other backgrounds from the human family. Here, it is our baptismal sharing in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that brings us together as families, a family of faith, to worship and transmit a knowledge of the Living God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Pope's General Intention: That Catholic Universities may more and more be places where, in the light of the Gospel, it is possible to experience the harmonious unity existing between faith and reason. 
Saint Hedwig Church serves as the "campus church" for Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy -- a fresh, magesterially faithful, Catholic College that draws on the rich inheretance of classical liberal arts in the formation of its students. With the support of our devoted parishoners, the complexities of utlizing the church's facilities for OLSWA's main kitchen and adjunct classrooms, are made possible.
Gifts appropriate for all sacramental celebrations such as baptism, first Holy Communion, confirmation and marriage are available as well as catechetical material and Holy Bibles. 
Our parish has a vibrant Sacred heart League. Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a worshipful relationship to the person of Christ and His redeeming love, under the aspect or symbol of his heart (see CCC #2011). Its scriptural Origins include: The human heart, a person’s deepest self, is where God has written his covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34; CCC #s 1764-1765) | Jesus of John’s Gospel: At the Feast of the Tabernacles (John 7:37-39); “Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.” | 
The first Polish-Kashub church was built on Siberia Road, two miles from the villag
Also known as Hedwig, Jadwiga, was the daughter of Count Berthold IV of Andechs, Bavaria, where she was
The Splendor of the Church, audio course examines the Church in the Pauline and Johannine writings and in the Synoptic Gospels. All of this is containe
Scott Hahn Reflections
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April 30th 2012 - Fourth Sunday of EasterListen Here!
The Shepherd’s Voice
Readings:
Acts 4:8-12
Psalm 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 29
1 John 3:1-2
John 10:11-18Jesus, in today’s Gospel, says that He is the good shepherd the prophets had promised to Israel.
He is the shepherd-prince, the new David—who frees people from bondage to sin and gathers them into one flock, the Church, under a new covenant, made in His blood (see Ezekiel 34:10-13, 23-31).
His flock includes other sheep, He says, far more than the dispersed children of Israel (see Isaiah 56:8; John 11:52). And He gave His Church the mission of shepherding all peoples to the Father.
In today’s First Reading, we see the beginnings of that mission in the testimony of Peter, whom...
Today's Saint
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Easter SundayEaster is the principal feast of the ecclesiastical year. Leo I (Sermo xlvii in Exodum) calls it the greatest feast (festum festorum), and says that Christmas is celebrated only in preparation for Easter. It is the centre of the greater part of the ecclesiastical year. To have a correct idea of the Easter celebration and its Masses, we must remember that it was intimately connected with the solemn rite of baptism. The preparatory liturgical acts commenced on the eve and were continued during the night. When the number of persons to be baptized was great, the sacramental ceremonies and the Easter celebration were united. This connection was severed at a time when, the discipline having changed, even the recollection of the old traditions was lost. The greater part of the ceremonies was transferred to the morning hours of Holy Saturday. Commemorating the slaying of the true Lamb of God and the Resurrection of Christ, the corner-stone upon which faith is built, it is also the oldest feast of the Christian Church, as old as Christianity, the connecting link between the Old and New Testaments. The connection between the Jewish Passover and the Christian feast of Easter is real and ideal. Real, since Christ died on the first Jewish Easter Day; ideal, like the relation between type and reality, because Christ's death and Resurrection had its figures and types in the Old Law, particularly in the paschal lamb, which was eaten towards evening of the 14th of Nisan. In fact, the Jewish feast was taken over into the Christian Easter celebration; the liturgy (Exsultet) sings of the passing of Israel through the Red Sea, the paschal lamb, the column of fire, etc. The connection between the Jewish and the Christian Pasch explains the movable character of this feast. Easter has no fixed date, like...