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Congratulations on Your Ordination to the Transitional Deaconate Rev. Mr Michel Quenneville
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With joy and thanksgiving to God, we congratulate and wish every blessing upon Rev. Mr. Michel Quenneville, who was ordained a transitional deacon at St Mary’s Cathedral yesterday by Archbishop Mulhall.
Here is a LINK to the gospel and homily from the ordination.
Deacon Michel preached his first masses this weekend at St Paul the Apostle Parish. You can find the live-streamed mass HERE
What is a transitional deacon?
Transitional deacons are seminarians, students in the last phase of training for the Catholic priesthood. After being a deacon for a year, they’re ordained a priest.
In addition to their primary service to the disadvantaged both Permanent Deacons and Transitional Deacons liturgically are able to baptize, witness marriages, perform funeral and burial services outside of Mass, distribute Holy Communion, preach the homily/sermon and are obligated to pray the Divine Office (Breviary) each day.
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Congratulations to Marlena Loughheed (Sr. Beata) who will profess her first vows on Aug 4
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Sr. Beata Victoria (Marlena Loughheed)
Marlena Loughheed was born and raised in Belleville, Ontario. After obtaining degrees in communications and journalism and interning with the Vatican’s representative at the UN, she moved to Toronto and spent five years working as a communications coordinator for the Archdiocese of Toronto’s Office of Public Relations and Communications. In her free time, she swam competitively and dabbled in the world of triathlon.
Marlena attended the Journey to the Father youth conference annually in Alexandria-Cornwall as a teen, she attended World Youth Days in Toronto and Germany, was on Catholic Christian Outreach staff for 5 years, and did two missions: Vine in Halifax and Impact in Vancouver. She also prayed her way 750 kilometres on El Camino.
On September 9, 2017 she entered postulancy with the Sisters of Life in New York, where she is now known as Sr. Beata Victoria. On August 4th she will profess her first vows with the Sisters of Life!
To read more on her discernment she has written an article which was featured in Convivium
Here is the link to the Mass at 11:00am on August 4th:
sistersoflife.org/firstvows2020
There is a Mass at Holy Rosary Parish in Belleville on August 4th at 9:30 for Sister Beata, for those who may want to attend.
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