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Pastor: Fr. Paul MacNeil

Father Paul MacNeil

I was appointed as pastor of Our Lady of the Scapular parish in November 2015 and I am delighted to be here. Before that, I was pastor of St. Ann's parish in Fenwick Ontario, a small but loving community about 30 minutes from here. I was born and raised in St. Catharines and ordained to the priesthood in 1999. Currently I am Chair of the Niagara Catholic District School Board and I'm working on my PhD in Religious Studies at McMaster University. As your pastor, my first priority is just to listen, to get to know you and understand the best way for me to serve you and to bring you closer to each other and to God through Christ.

Our Lady of the Scapular Church WH-01.pn

Our Lady of the Scapular Church
6557 Thorold Stone Road
Niagara Falls, Ontario, L2J 1B2

Phone: 905-358-7611 • Fax 905-358-7679

Office Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00am to 3:00pm

(We are closed from 12:00 - 1:00pm for lunch.)

Father Daniel Corso
- Jun 11
- 1 min read

Dear Family in Christ

With apologies, I don't have a column this week. Father Michael and I were blessed to be on retreat together with the rest of our brother priests as well as Bishop Bergie, and as such we took a bit of a break from our weekly duties. In place of my own writings, and in the spirit of this Sunday's Corpus Christi Solemnity, I would like to share one of my favourite quotes on the Eucharist- not from a Saint, but from the (debatably) greatest author of the last century. Enjoy!

“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament. . . . There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste—or foretaste—of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every man’s heart desires."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, ('Letter 43') to his son Michael

God love you,

Father Corso

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