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Holy Week Mass Times:
​Holy Thursday 6:30pm
​Friday Outdoor Stations of the Cross 2:00pm
Good Friday 3:00pm
Easter Vigil 8:00pm
Easter Sunday 10:00am
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Lent is often referred as the ‘season of grace’ and a ‘privileged time’.  It is a time for spiritual renewal in order to embrace the kingdom with repentance and faith. It is also a special time set apart for prayer, fasting and alms giving leading to conversion. Sometimes we tend think that these practices are outdated and counter-culture. They are in a way counter-cultural but not outdated. Fasting is a basic form of prayer, as there is no purely spiritual religion. To become involved, the soul needs bodily acts and attitude.
 
In the Gospel we read Jesus spending forty days and forty nights in desert in fast and prayer. It was Jesus’ lent. His fast and prayer enabled him to discern and to live God’s will. It also enabled him to conquer the power of evil. It was in the desert that Jesus came to distinguish between the voice of God and the voice of Satan. There he encountered the wild beasts as well as the holy angels. It should be noted that it was in desert the Hebrew people were constituted as people of God by the covenant. The great prophets like Elijah and John the Baptist were men of the desert. Lent is the time for desert experience. It means that it is the appropriate time to renew our relationship with God. It is the appropriate time to listen to the Voice of God.
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Fr. Thomas
Regular Mass Times:
Tuesday - 6:30 pm
Thursday - 9:00 am
Friday - 9:00 am
Saturday - 5:00 pm
Sunday - 10:00 am
St. Agnes Parish
302 Veterans Way
Carstairs, AB
T0M 0N0
403-940-1100
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Prayer Circle
To request prayers or to join the circle,
​please contact
Fran Murphy (403-335-4591)
or 
Fr. Thomas (403-869-4255)