COVID 19 UPDATE - April 3
Adoration Chapel is temporarily closed. Palms will be blessed and distributed after the pandemic is over.
Closure of parishes and parish offices until further notice. All masses are cancelled to the public but are live streamed daily. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday will be live streamed. Link below.
Fr. Cerlouie will continue to say most masses with mass intentions. The masses will be live streamed. As well as devotions. All the Catholic faithful have been granted dispensation from their Sunday obligation to attend mass until further notice. All Penitential celebrations are cancelled. If absolutely necessary priests will be available for confessions, however, use of confessionals is prohibited. All Lenten parish missions and retreats in the diocese are cancelled. Celebrations of Baptism, First Eucharist, First Reconciliation and Confirmation are postponed until we are advised by the health authorities that the pandemic is over. All classes for children and adults are cancelled. You will be contacted with instruction to finish at home. Funerals may be celebrated with limitations to family members only. No receptions are allowed.
Live streaming of mass is available - please check this website for updates. icckelowna.ca
You may also go to the Diocesan website for more updates:
Livestream - Archived Mass & Devotions
You may also go to icckelowna on YouTube to see previous videos.
Novena During Sickness ~~ Our Lady of Monte Berico, Novena - Intercessor and protector in moments of plague
O Most Holy virgin, Mother of God and my Mother Mary, I thank you that you have deigned to appear on Monte Berico and I thank you for all the graces you grant here to those who turn to you. Nobody ever prayed to you in vain. I, too, resort to you and beg you by the Passion and Death of Jesus and by your pains: welcome me, o' merciful Mother, under your mantle, which is a maternal mantle; grant me the particular grace that I ask of You (protection and healing from the Coronavirus for all members or our Catholic parishes and schools in the Diocese of Nelson, and for all citizens of our province, country, and world) and protect me from all evil and especially from sin which is the greatest evil.
Oh make , oh Mary, my Mother, that I always enjoy Your loving protection in life and even more in death and then come to see You in heaven and to thank and bless You forever, Amen
O sweet Virgin, pious Mother of love,
Like this Ave rising from the heart,
Ave, ave, ave Maria, Ave, ave, ave Maria
O Virgin, shine as a star in the sky,
Motherly defend your faithful children.
Ave, ave, ave Maria, Ave, ave, ave Maria
Daily updates from our health authorities continue to be available at . Please check our website for ongoing information.
Thank you for your understanding and especially for your support as we weather this storm together.
Sincerely, Bishop Gregory Bittman
His Excellency Gregory Bittman
Bishop of Nelson
REV. Cerlouie Jimenez
Parish Priest
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