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Welcome to St. Bonaventure Parish!
To those of you just now returning to St. Bonaventure Parish after time away, we extend you a heartfelt welcome.
To those of you who haven't been able to attend we continue to pray for your safety & health. We hope that you have been enjoying our online faith resources & feel connected to our parish community.
To those who have been attending our parish amid the current restrictions & continually changing guidelines, we are grateful for your presence.
If you have been away from the Church, are not Catholic, or have suffered past hurt, we invite you back to rediscover the truth & grace that the Catholic Church has to offer.
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This Week From Fr Colin
Can God spread a table in the wilderness? He can, He did & He does. Ultimately the table spread before us is the altar upon which the Eucharistic sacrifice is offered.
The miracle of the feeding of the multitude is a prefiguring of the offering that Christ Himself presents to us in His own Body & Blood. Through this sacrifice countless numbers of people are continuously fed, & in the sometime wilderness of our lives we are nourished & strengthened with the abundance that God provides us.
The whole of John chapter 6, which begins with this miracle, points towards the Eucharist & Christ as the living bread come down from Heaven precisely to be our food.
In the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: Be one or be a thousand fed, they eat alike that living bread which, still received, ne’er wastes away. -
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Letter from Bishop McGrattan to the Faithful of the Diocese of Calgary
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