Saturday 4 p.m.
HAP - St. Joseph's Faith Community, Shad Bay
HAP - St. Patrick's Faith Community, New Ross (1st Saturday of the month) - Seasonal Closure
Sunday 9 a.m.
HAP - St. Augustine's Faith Community, Chester
Sunday 11 a.m.
HAP - St. Anthony's Faith Community, Hubbards
HAP - St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Faith Community, Upper Tantallon (Livestreamed)
WEEKDAY
for April
Tuesday
April 1, 8, 22, 29
9:00 a.m.
HAP - St. Joseph's Faith Community, Shad Bay
Wednesday
April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
9:30 a.m.
HAP - St. Augustine's Faith Community, Chester
Thursday
April 3, 10, 23
9:30 a.m.
HAP - St. Anthony's Faith Community, Hubbards
PARISH Lenten Prayer Booklets
available at all Faith Communities
LENTEN PRAYER BREAKFAST
We had a fantastic time and would love to hear from those who attended!
Your experiences, suggestions, and ideas can help shape our future gatherings.
Please share your thoughts by emailing us at haparishretreat@gmail.com.
We look forward to hearing your inspiring insights!
Thank you!
followed by hospitality Friday's (during the Lenten Season)
6:00 p.m.
location: HAP - St. Joseph's Faith Community (Shad Bay)
Tuesday's (during the Lenten Season)
10:00 a.m.
location: HAP - St. Anthony's Faith Community (Hubbards)
March 19 & April 1
7:00 p.m.
location: HAP - SMB's Faith Community (Upper Tantallon)
24 HOUR ADORATION
commencing Monday, March 24 at 9 a.m.
and
concluding with Mass on Tuesday, March 25 at 9:00 a.m.
location: HAP - St. Joseph's Faith Community (Shad Bay)
LENTEN PENITENTIAL
Tuesday, April 1 7:00 p.m.
location: HAP - St. Joseph's Faith Community (Shad Bay)
Wednesday, April 2 7:00 p.m.
location: HAP - SMB's Faith Community (Upper Tantallon)
HOLY WEEK
Holy Thursday, April 17
- 7:00 p.m. HAP ~ SMB's Faith Community, Upper Tantallon (live streamed)
- 7:00 p.m. HAP ~ St. Joseph's Faith Community, Shad Bay
- 7:00 p.m. HAP ~ St. Augustine's Faith Community, Chester Holy Thursday Foot Washing – if you wish to have your foot washed on Holy Thursday, please contact the Parish Office
at 902-826-2696.
Good Friday, April 18
- 10:00 a.m. HAP ~ SMB's Faith Community, Upper Tantallon (Lay)
- 3:00 p.m. HAP ~ SMB's Faith Community, Upper Tantallon (live streamed)
- 3:00 p.m. HAP ~ St. Joseph's Faith Community, Shad Bay
- 3:00 p.m. HAP ~ St. Anthony's Faith Community, Hubbards
- 3:00 p.m. HAP ~ St. Patrick's Faith Community, New Ross
Easter Sunday, April 20
- 9:00 a.m. HAP ~ St. Augustine's Faith Community, Chester
- 9:00 a.m. HAP ~ St. Joseph's Faith Community, Shad Bay
- 10:00 a.m. HAP ~ St. Patrick's Faith Community, New Ross
- 11:00 a.m. HAP ~ St. Anthony's Faith Community, Hubbards
- 11:00 a.m. HAP ~ SMB's Faith Community, Upper Tantallon (live streamed)
Easter Flower Donations
to
honor and remember
Donation envelopes are available at all
Holy Apostles Parish - Faith Community location.
Deadline Date
to reach HAP - Office
is Monday, April 7, 2025
FINANCIAL
How to Support Our Parish Financially
Pre-Authorized Remittances (PAR)
PAR is invaluable to the parish in these times as these contributions still arrive even if you can’t. For the parish, PAR provides a steadier and more predictable stream of funds. This is extremely helpful for budgeting and planning for larger projects. Contact the Parish office at 902-826-2696 or email engagehap@gmail.com. The PAR form is available to download here.
Canada Helps (Credit Cards can be used here)
You can now make donations to Holy Apostles Parish through Canada Helps. Through this safe and secure site you can support any Canadian charity and centralize all your giving. If you choose to use one, a free account allows you to track all your giving, set giving goals, manage monthly gifts, and more. Choose to receive an instant tax receipt after each donation or a summary receipt at the end of each year for all donations.
For those who have asked about using a credit card, Canada Helps allows you to donate using one. You can make one time or recurring donations.
E-Transfers
E-transfers can be made to holyapostlesparish16@gmail.com. Please include your envelope number or contact info so we can ensure that we credit the right person for the donation!
Stock Donations
Aligning Your Investment with Your Values
Did you know that the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth and its parishes can accept stock donations? A stock donation is a way to give to a charitable organization by donating shares of publicly traded stocks, mutual funds, or other securities instead of cash. This type of donation can provide significant benefits for both the donor and the charity.
Why would someone donate stocks?
Tax Advantages: Avoid capital gains tax on appreciated stocks while receiving a charitable tax receipt.
Increased Impact: The value of donated stocks is often greater than if they were sold first and then donated in cash.
Align Investments with Values: If you own stocks that no longer reflect your beliefs and values, you can turn them into meaningful giving.
How It Works
Decide which stocks to donate: Identify investments that you no longer wish to hold.
Transfer the stocks: By contacting Melissa Lunn at 902-429-9800 or development@halifaxyarmouth.org.
Receive a charitable tax receipt: The donation is eligible for tax benefits, allowing you to give wisely and generously.
Riding the wave of success from our recent community potluck dinner, we are thrilled to share that the food received fabulous reviews! Many attendees commented on how delicious and varied the dishes were.
It's time to launch our next parish fundraising initiative: a HAP Cookbook!
To make this initiative successful, we need your help. Please send us your favourite recipes, including:
Salads
Appetizers
Main courses
Casseroles
Side dishes
Desserts
We aim to have the cookbook ready for sale by the end of May 2025. Please write, type, or scan your recipes, and double-check the content to ensure it includes your name and community. Feel free to add personal notes about the recipe (e.g., "Granny's Kitchen").
For too many of us, Lent is a season of doom and gloom, a time to feel bad about all the ways we are not “measuring up” in our spiritual lives. But this view could not be further from the truth. Lent is a season of refreshment and love, of awakening and rebirth. The Gospel Reading, the parable of the Prodigal Son, is filled with this theme of awakening and the extravagant, life-changing love that the Father has for each one of us.
We are all familiar with this amazing story — the bratty younger son who has the audacity to ask his dad for his inheritance early, only to squander it sinfully away. It makes us bristle instinctively at his nerve when we read it. But isn’t that exactly what we do when we selfishly turn away from God (in big or small ways) in our own lives? We squander away the inheritance of grace He has given us.
In desperation from the mess he had made of his life, the son finally “comes to his senses” — awakening to the truth that he is a beloved son of a loving and merciful father — and decides to return home. His contrition is faltering and imperfect and seems motivated in large part by his growling stomach. But it is enough for the loving father.
In fact, as soon as the father catches sight of his son he is “filled with compassion for him” and immediately sets about preparing a feast and fine clothes for this son. What an extravagance of love! What a beautiful picture Jesus gives us of our Father’s love and mercy. Oh, how this should fill us with gratitude for such a Father!
And how it should inspire us — with just the tiniest bit of spiritual “spring cleaning” we can be sure we will be swept up in our Father’s loving embrace and find ourselves feasting in His presence. That is what lent is all about.
A servant’s heart is what I need
To follow and obey
My pleasure is to live for You
To do just as You say
On the altar is my life
A sacrifice for You
I live and breathe each moment Lord
A willing slave for You
But Lord You know I stumble hard
I hear the voices all around
That mock and cause my heart to fear
Although You’re always near
A servant I will choose to be
Yet when I’m weak Lord strengthen me
My eyes will never look behind
I’ll cling to You for You are mine
My Master O, my Master
I’m a sacrifice for You
Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals and Sacrament of the Sick (Annointing): Please contact the main office at 902-826-2696.
Baptisms at Holy Apostles Parish
For further information or to schedule a baptism, please call the main office at 902-826-2696. Please note that a short baptismal preparation course will be required and provided before the actual baptism.
Parish Communications
If you have any concerns to be addressed by our parish Leadership Team, you can now email them directly at LeadershipHolyApostles@gmail.com.
All communications should be made to the Holy Apostles Parish office
(call 902-826-2696 or email HAParishNS@gmail.com).
St. Augustine's Faith Community 105 King Street, Chester
Office Hours: Mondays - 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Telephone: 902-275-5463
Mailing Address: please use HAP main office address
St. Joseph's Faith Community 3709 Prospect Road, Shad Bay
Office Hours: Tuesdays - 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Telephone: 902-852-2763
Mailing Address: please use HAP main office address
We live, work and play in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral, current, and unceeded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. For more information on the Peace and Friendship Treaties please click HERE.
HOLY APOSTLES PARISH
Maryn Anderson, DMI
Parish Life Coordinator
Father Edwin Ewuzie
Assistant Priest
Maryann Doyle, CPHR
Manager for Business Administration
Dale Rycroft
Coordinator for Cemeteries
Andre Edmunds
Building & Maintenance Coordinator
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Faith Communities - Staff
Dinah Simmons
Coordinator of Elementary Religious Education
SMB Faith Community
Jim Kemp
Janitor
SMB Faith Community
Tish Hammond
Administrative Support Worker
St. Joseph's Faith Community
Karen MacKenzie-Stepner
Administrative Support Worker
St. Augustine's Faith Community
