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Pastor's Message

Welcome to the website for the great pilgrimage to St. Ann in Cormac Ontario. May Good Saint Ann bless you for visiting here today!

Our world today is filled with uncertainty and tension. The headlines are filled with accounts of economic difficulties, filled with accounts of unrest in various parts of the world. In various ways, evil comes into our lives and often in sudden and unexpected ways. Sickness may touch a loved one, or a drunk driver can snuff out a precious life in a moment. Evil fills hearts with hatred and prejudice. It breaks up families and pits group against group in society. It produces poverty and hunger. It lures us into thinking we can find the meaning of life in things or power or pleasure.

Evil frequently happens when we choose to live apart from God’s plan and purpose for us. Separated from the One who is the source of all that is good, evil is let loose in the world.

And so we pray “deliver us from evil” when we pray the Lord’s prayer. God fills us with love so that we can help instead of hurt. God empowers us to be the means to bring healing to others. A nd God promises that, no matter what may happen to us, all things work out for our good.

This summer, come away and be renewed by God through the intercession of Saint Ann. Bishop Mulhall, the Bishop of Pembroke, will be the Celebrant at both the Pilgrim Mass and the Triduum in preparation for the Sunday celebration. May we be blessed and renewed through this time of prayer and devotion.

News

"We are a pilgrim people"

By Lucy Hass The Renfrew Mecury Faith continues to draw people to the Shrine of St. Ann at Cormac, 69 years after the first pilgrimage was held. Although there was no Bishop to lead the traditional Sunday service under the majestic pines of Cormac, Father Eugene O’Reilly of Toronto brought messages of compassion and forgiveness to the morning... [Read More]