Mass & Confession Times

Holy Week Mass Schedule (click here)

Note: Special Mass times & festival activities can be found in the weekly bulletin online

Regular Weekend Mass Schedule

Saturday

5:30 pm

 Community Church, Madeira Park

4:00 pm

Holy Family Parish, Sechelt

Sunday

9:15 am

 Holy Family Parish, Sechelt
 
11:15 am
St. Mary's Parish, Gibsons

4:00 pm

 St. Mary's Parish, Gibsons
 

Regular Daily Mass Schedule
Monday
10:00 am
Our Lady of Lourdes, Sechelt

Tuesday

7:00 pm

 Holy Family Parish, Sechelt
Thursday
9:00 am
Holy Family Parish, Sechelt
Wednesday
9:00 am
St. Mary's Parish, Gibsons
Friday
12:00 pm
St. Mary's Parish, Gibsons
 Note: First Friday at St Mary's there is no noon Mass, only 9:00am - NB. no changes on even months.

Regular Confessions Times

Saturday

3:30 - 4:00 pm

 Holy Family Parish, Sechelt
Saturday
5:15 - 5:30 pm
Community Church, Madeira Park
Sunday
3:30 - 4:00 pm
St. Mary's Parish, Gibsons

IN ADDITION CONFESSIONS ARE 10 MINUTES BEFORE
DAILY MASS OR ON REQUEST AT OTHER TIMES.

How do I participate in Individual Confession?

Take some time in prayer to examine your conscience before making your confession. Then when you are ready, take a place in line and enter when it is your turn. When you enter for reconciliation, you have two choices. You may kneel down and make your confession anonymously or you may go to the chair by the priest to confess your sins face to face. It is your option, but many people find they have a richer experience of the Lord's mercy by confessing their sins face to face.

Find out more about the reconciliation process here.
 

Holy Week Mass Schedule

Monday March 17th 6:30 pm Penitential Service at both parishes.

Tuesday, March 18th 5:00 pm “Chrism Mass” at Holy Rosary Cathedral, NO 7:00 pm Mass at Holy Family.

Wednesday, March 19th 9:00 am Mass at St. Mary’s.

Thursday, March 20th “Lords Supper Mass” 7:00 pm at both parishes. NO 9:00 am Mass at Holy Family.

Friday, March 21st. “Lords Passion” 3:00 pm at Holy Family and 5:00 pm at St. Mary’s.

Saturday, March 22nd “Easter Vigil” 8:30 pm at both parishes.

Sunday, March 23rd 9:15 am Mass at Holy Family, 11:15 am Mass at St. Mary’s.

NO 4:00 pm Mass at St. Mary’s.

 

How do I properly receive Holy Communion at Mass?

The Church understands the Communion Procession, in fact every procession in the liturgy, as a sign of the pilgrim Church, the body of those who believe in Christ, on their way to Heavenly Jerusalem. All our lives we who believe in Christ are moving in time toward that moment when we will be taken by death from this world and enter into joy of the Lord in the eternal Kingdom he has prepared for us.

The liturgical assembly of the baptized that comes together for the celebration of the Eucharist is a witness to, a manifestation of, the pilgrim Church. When we move in procession, paricularly in the procession to receive the body and blood of Christ in Communion, we are a sign, a symbol of that pilgrim Church "on the way." For some, however, the experience of Communion Procession is far more prosaic, analogous perhaps to standing on line in the supermarket or at the motor vehicle bureau. A perception such as this is a dreadfully inaccurate and impoverished understanding of what is a significant religious action.

The Communion Procession is an action of the Body of Christ. At Christ's invitation, extended by the priest acting in Christ's person: Happy are they who are called to his supper, the members of the community move forward to share in the sacred meal, to receive the body and blood of Christ which is the sign and the source of their unity. In fact, each time we move forward together to receive the body and blood of the Lord, we join the countless ranks of all the baptized who have gone before us, our loved ones, the canonized and uncanonized saints down through the ages, who at their time in history formed a part of this mighty stream of believers.

Find out more about the communion process here.