September 28, 2025
Beauty Will Save the World
At the invitation of Archbishop Christian Lépine of Montreal, young pilgrims are invited to an extraordinary evening celebrating faith, music, and the hope inspired by Saint Joseph.
Experience a unique theatrical and musical fresco by Jacques Béland, featuring over 150 artists on stage. The performance brings together musicians from the Montreal Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal, gospel and opera singers, actors, dancers, and immersive projections, creating a night of inspiration and wonder.
This event coincides with the Feast of the Epiphany
and promises to be a highlight of the liturgical season.
SAVE THE DATE:
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 – 7:30 p.m.
Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal
Tickets will be available soon.
JULY 26, 2025
Celebrating a Year of Hope
At the invitation of Pope Francis, young people from our diocese will participate in the Youth Jubilee in Rome from July 28 to August 3, 2025, accompanied by Archbishop Christian Lépine of Montreal. This international gathering is a continuation of the World Youth Day in Lisbon in 2023 and paves the way for the WYD in Seoul in 2027.
This will be a memorable moment: their first encounter with the new pope, at the very heart of the universal Church. They will join hundreds of young Canadians from several dioceses, as well as thousands of others from around the world, for a week of prayer, dialogue, celebration, and fraternity.
The program will include:
- An opening Mass in St. Peter’s Square
- Cultural, spiritual, and missionary activities throughout the city
- A day of penance at the Circo Massimo
- A large vigil and Mass with the Holy Father at Tor Vergata
As is traditional at these large gatherings, young Canadians will also experience a national gathering in Rome—a special moment of communion and missionary sending.
The Archdiocese of Montreal will be represented by a dynamic delegation from various parish, cultural and spiritual communities, including: Holy Name of Jesus, Monte Carmelo, Notre-Dame d’Égypte, Saint-Roch, St John Fisher, the Marie-Reine-des-Cœurs Shrine, the Neocatechumenal Way, the Chinese Catholic Mission of Montreal and Jeunesse Melkite (Eparchy of Saint-Sauveur).
We invite you to keep these young people in your prayers, so that this pilgrimage may bear fruit for them, for our Church, and for the world.
A huge thank you to all the benefactors and communities who have supported this initiative with generosity and faith. Thanks to you, this experience of faith and communion is possible.
JUNE 29, 2025
A Call to Prayer for Peace in the
Holy Land and the Middle East
During the Month of the Sacred Heart
Amid the rising tensions and violence in the Middle East, the Catholic faithful in Canada are reminded of the urgent need to pray for peace. During this month—dedicated in the Latin Church to the Sacred Heart of Jesus—we have a unique opportunity to seek the Lord’s mercy, healing, and peace for our divided world.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus focuses our attention on the Lord’s inexhaustible love for humanity, and His desire that all be saved. By praying to the Sacred Heart, we turn to the divine source from which all authentic reconciliation springs, and open the channels for it to flow forth in our lives.
The Eastern Catholic Churches observe a different devotion in June, one which is centred on the Apostles Peter and Paul and that concludes with their liturgical feast on the 29th. Remembering their witness, which began in Jerusalem and spread forth “into all the earth,” as the Byzantine liturgy puts it, the faithful beg them “to intercede with the Master of all to grant peace to the world and to our souls great mercy.”
Parishes, communities of consecrated and apostolic life, families, movements and associations, and individuals within the Church in Canada are all therefore invited to pray and work for peace by:
• including suitable intentions in one’s daily prayers
• reciting a prayer to the Sacred Heart each day during the remainder of June;
• attending Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction with the Most Blessed Sacrament;
• reciting a Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
including appropriate petitions during the Universal Prayer at daily and Sunday Masses this month;
• attending Mass on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (June 27th);
• offering one’s fasting and abstinence, during the Apostles’ Fast, for this particular concern, in the sacrificial spirit of St. Peter and St. Paul;
• practicing the corporal works of mercy within one’s local community, and donating to reliable charities working in the Holy Land and throughout the Middle East.
– released by: the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB)
