Sunday Masses:
Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., and 3 p.m.
Weekday Masses:
Monday through Saturday at 9:30 a.m.
Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday
Easter Vigil: April 3rd at 8:30 p.m.
Easter Sunday: 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m.
Only 75 people may attend in person (no reserved seating).
Videos not on the Mass playlist may be found on Facebook.
Admission to Sunday Mass is first-come first-served for the first 75 people. The limit is set by the Ministry of Health to inhibit the spread of COVID. Exceeding capacity not only increases the risk of contagion but could also result in large fines.
All who attend or serve at Sunday Mass must check in with a greeter and verify that they have self-screened that day, have not been out of the province in the previous 14 days, and have not been in contact with anyone who is ill. Click here for a provincial self-screening poster.
Please be on time. The doors will be locked when capacity is reached or shortly after Mass begins.
Please exit by the side doors especially after the 9 a.m. Mass.
Best chance of getting a seat? People are being turned away from the 9 and 11o'clock Masses. The 3 and 5 o'clock Masses usually have empty seats.
Note: Attendance limits, signing in, self-screening, social distancing, face masks, and sanitization measures apply to all events in the church.
Everyone must maintain a safe distance of six feet (two metres) from other worshippers who are not members of one's own household. Look for green tape on the carpet indoors. Sit in the pews with green tape.
The use of hand sanitizer is encouraged, whether your own or that provided.
Admission to weekday Mass is first-come first-served. All who attend need to sign in, verify that they have performed self-screening that morning, maintain social distancing, and wear a mask. Only 75 people may be present in the church at one time, excluding Fr. Gerry, Deacon Gilles, lay ministers, and the videographer.
Eucharistic Adoration follows the morning Mass and continues until noon every day except Sunday or when a funeral is scheduled. Adoration will continue after noon for as long as people have added their names to the Adoration book near the baptismal font.
The province mandates the wearing of face masks. The only exceptions are children under five; anyone suffering from a medical condition unrelated to COVID-19 that prevents safely wearing a mask, including breathing or cognitive difficulties or a disability; and anyone who is unable to put on or remove a mask without the assistance of another person.
Anyone exempt from wearing a mask should tell the greeter when signing in at Sunday Mass.
If anyone forgets his mask, the greeter can provide one.
Please put your mask on before entering the church and wear your mask when you are moving around, including on the way to and from the altar for Communion and when leaving. Masks may be removed when sitting still at least two metres from others.
♦ Mass at St. Emile
♦ The National Catholic Broadcast Council broadcasts Mass on their web site.
♦ The National Catholic Broadcast Council also streams Mass daily on YouTube.
♦ Salt and Light televises Mass daily. The schedule is available here.
♦ EWTN televises Mass daily. The schedule is available here.
♦ EWTN streams Mass live on YouTube.
"The Church encourages frequent, even daily, Holy Communion, but if at any time we cannot go to Mass in or out of this season of the coronavirus, we can still unite ourselves to the Eucharist through making a spiritual Communion.
By making an Act of Spiritual Communion, we express our faith in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist and ask him to unite himself with us."
Read more from Patti Armstrong at the National Catholic Register.
"My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen."
-- Act of Spiritual Communion
from St.Alphonsus Liguori --