The official position of the Catholic Church is that all available COVID vaccines are ethical and all Catholics who are able are encouraged to receive the vaccine. All employees serving in the Diocese of Hamilton are encouraged to be fully vaccinated or to submit to a COVID rapid test every Monday and Thursday in order to carry out their responsibilities. Volunteer liturgical ministers are required to be fully vaccinated. Bishop Douglas Crosby, OMI, encourages every member of the Catholic Church within our Diocese of Hamilton to be fully vaccinated.
Greetings! Normally by this time of year we would have already had our Nibbles and Bids and we’d be looking forward to the Turkey roll on the weekend. These two fundraisers, and a few others in our hall along with the weekly contributions from parishioners help to keep St. Lawrence thriving each year. But with health restrictions, we haven’t been able to run events in our hall and it’s left us missing everyone that we usually see at all those events and unfortunately with a pretty big fundraising hole. So we would invite you, if you are able, to consider supporting the church through an online donation to St. Lawrence Parish today on Giving Tuesday. You can make a donation by clicking the button below which will take you to our donation page (through Canada Helps, our online donations partner) Make a #GivingTuesday donation of $20 or more on Giving Tuesday and we’ll get an extra $2 from CanadaHelps!
Funds go to the various ministries in our parish and maintaining the church which has been a part of our community since 1890. We thank you for your generosity!
50/50 draw
You can also support the parish by purchasing tickets for our Christmas 50/50 draw (licence no. M846931) – Tickets are $5 or 3 for $10. To purchase tickets, call or email the parish office (we do curbside pickup ! ) or talk to Joe, Alissa, Andy, Helen, Maureen, Jean or Keith 😉
Draw to be held at St. Lawrence on December 20th at 12:30 p.m.
And until we can do it again….here’s a reminder of some of the fun we’ll have next year when we can gather again!!!
Since we’ve re-opened for Sunday Mass, the need to allow for social distancing has reduced seating capacity in the church significantly. As a result, on many Sundays we have unfortunately reached our seating capacity and had to turn away a few families.
In an effort to ease some of the capacity issues on Sundays we are, for the time being, offering a Sunday Vigil Mass on Saturdays at 5:00 p.m.
It is our hope that this additional Sunday Mass option will help to ease crowding on Sunday and ensure that everyone wants to, has the ability to attend Mass at St. Lawrence.
We are pleased to say that Mass at St. Lawrence Parish has resumed! Thanks be to God. It should be noted however that things are not back to the way they were before the closure so we encourage you, before you attend Mass, please read the letter from Bishop Crosby regarding the opening
Sunday Mass is at 11:00 a.m. – Under current municipal By-laws, anyone attending Mass MUST wear a mask that covers their mouth and nose for the duration of the time they are in the building.
NB: Please do not attend if you have traveled outside of the country in the last 2 weeks, or if you have had contact with anyone diagnosed with Covid-19, or if you have any symptoms consistent with Covid-19.
Our weekday Mass Schedule will be as follows until further notice:
Wednesdays – 7:00 p.m.
Thursdays – Mass is at 7:00 p.m. ,with Adoration and an opportunity for Confession starting at 6:00 p.m.
During the Covid isolation period, Novalis has made their daily Mass text available as a free download. If you enjoy having access to the Missal, we encourage you to subscribe to Living with Christ. Click the links below to view the Mass Text for the day:
