The deadline to make a donation towards our Christmas Flowers is Sunday, December 18. Donations can be placed in the collection using an envelope marked “Flowers”. Please include the names of those to be remembered during our Christmas Masses.
You can also e-Transfer your donation to stpiusx@nb.aibn.com
Please add the names of your loved ones in the memo section of your e-Transfer.
We are preparing the January – March Eucharistic Ministers’ Schedule. If you know that you will be unavailable at any point during those months, please contact the parish office (653-6830 or stpiusx@nb.aibn.com) by Tuesday, December 20, so that we can adjust the schedule accordingly.
The deadline to make a donation towards our Christmas Flowers is Sunday, December 18. Donations can be placed in the collection using an envelope marked “Flowers”. Please include the names of those to be remembered during our Christmas Masses.
You can also e-Transfer your donation to stpiusx@nb.aibn.com
Please add the names of your loved ones in the memo section of your e-Transfer.
2023 Sunday Offertory Envelopes are now available at the back of the church. If you are new to the parish and would like a box of envelopes, please call the parish office (653-6830). Reminder: Please don’t use these new envelopes until January.
Reminder: Bishop Riesbeck invites the faithful of the diocese to celebrate our patronal feast day, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, and gather for a concelebrated Mass tonight, Thursday, December 8, 6:30 pm, at the Cathedral. A reception will follow in the rectory.
The Most Reverend Christian Riesbeck, C.C., Bishop of Saint John announces the following clergy assignments:
Rev. Dr. Michael McGowan is appointed Chancellor of the Diocese effective January 1, 2023.
Rev. Douglas McNeill completes his term as Episcopal Vicar for Temporal Affairs, effective December 9, 2022. Temporal Affairs will become the responsibility of the Vicar General, Msgr. Brian Henneberry.
Rev. Douglas McNeill is appointed Pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish, Saint John, effective February 15, 2023.
Rev. Ralph McRae, EV, is appointed Rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Saint John, effective February 15, 2023.
The Most Reverend Christian Riesbeck, C.C., Bishop of Saint John announces the following parish changes:
Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Fredericton, is merged in an extinctive union with Our Lady of Peace Parish, Fredericton. Our Lady of Fatima Church will close after a final Mass has been celebrated there on January 8, 2023. St. Anthony’s Church, Fredericton, St. Theresa’s Church, Fredericton, and St. Patrick’s Church, Stanley, will remain.
An announcement on Our Lady of Hope Parish / Paroisse Notre-Dame de l’Esperance, Miramichi will be forthcoming.
The CWL will host a Cookie Walk in the church hall on Saturday, November 26 & Sunday, November 27, following all Masses. Fill a bag with your choice of delicious cookies for only $8. Donations of homemade cookies would be appreciated and can be dropped off at the church hall before all Masses on November 26 or 27.
Reminder: There will be no 9 am Mass tomorrow, Thursday, November 24.
You still have time to add the names of your deceased loved ones to our Remembrance Book. To add someone who has died since last November, email us at stpiusx@nb.aibn.com, and we will add them to the list. If you do not have email access, please write/print out your list of names, and place it in the collection basket. Your loved ones will be added to the book and remembered at all Masses during November.
