

Welcome
Welcome, and thank you for visiting St. Anthony of Padua online. Please feel free to read more about our church on this site, or come in for a visit. We would love to greet you and share with you our love for Jesus Christ and for you, our neighbour.
Our Mission
Our mission as Christians, with all Christians around the world, is to love as Jesus Christ asked us "..you shall love your neighbour as yourself."(Matthew 22:37-40)
With love comes understanding, with understanding comes forgiveness. The door to salvation is always open and the way to salvation is through reconciliation with God.
"All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.....
Sacraments
Here at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Haliburton, we offer the sacraments on an as needed basis. You need to phone the church to make an appointment with the Priest who will then give you the necessary instruction of what is requiered to complete the sacrament.
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RCIA program - please contact the Church.
Weekend Masses
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Saturday afternoon
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Vigil Mass 4:30 PM
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Please click on the link below for additional mass times and other sacraments


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​Prayer for the Pope
O God, shepherd and ruler of all the faithful,
look favourably on your servant Leo XIV,
whom you have set at the head of your
Church as her shepherd; 
grant, we pray, that by word and example
he may be of service to those over whom he presides so that,
together with the flock entrusted to his care, he may come to
everlasting life.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity
of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
Amen
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Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles
Ordinary Time: October 28th​
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The Church celebrates the Feast of the Apostles Saints Simon and Jude. Their names occur together in the Canon of the Mass and are also celebrated on the same day. They may be paired together because they both preached the Gospel in Mesopotamia and Persia where it is said they had both been sent, but in actual fact we know nothing for certain about them beyond what is told us of their being called as Apostles in the New Testament. St. Jude is the author of the short Epistle which forms part of the New Testament.​
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Sts. Simon and Jude
However meagre in details is the history of these glorious apostles, we learn from their brief legend how amply they contributed to this great work of generating sons of God. Without any repose, and even to the shedding of their blood, they "edified the body of Christ"; and the grateful Church thus prays to our Lord today: "O God, through the work of the apostles you have spoken your Word of love, your Son, into our world's deafness. Open our ears to hear; open our hearts to heed; open our will to obey, that we may proclaim the good news with our lives."
St. Simon is represented in art with a saw, the instrument of his martyrdom. St. Jude's square points him out as an architect of the house of God. St. Paul called himself by this name; and St. Jude, by his Catholic Epistle, has also a special right to be reckoned among our Lord's principal workmen. But our apostle had another nobility, far surpassing all earthly titles: being nephew, by his father Cleophas or Alpheus, to St. Joseph, and legal cousin to the Man-God, Jude was one of those called by their compatriots the brethren of the carpenter's Son. We may gather from St. John's Gospel another precious detail concerning him. In the admirable discourse at the close of the last Supper, our Lord said: "He that loveth Me, shall be loved of My Father: and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him." Then Jude asked Him: "Lord, how is it, that Thou wilt manifest Thyself to us, and not to the world?" And he received from Jesus this reply: "If any one love Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and will make Our abode with him. He that loveth Me not keepeth not My word. And the word which you have heard is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me."
The churches of St. Peter in Rome and Saint-Sernin at Toulouse dispute the honor of possessing the greater part of their holy remains.
—Excerpted from The Liturgical Year, Abbot Gueranger O.S.B.
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Read More:
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2025-10-28
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Fr. Don Calloway, MIC: The Rosary: Spiritual Sword of Our Lady
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What is the most powerful weapon on earth? In this talk based on his recent book, "Champions of the Rosary: The History and Heroes of a Spiritual Weapon," Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC argues that the rosary is a spiritual sword that has won decisive battles. And he has the stories to prove it. Fr. Don Calloway, MIC, is Vocation Director for the Marians of the Immaculate Conception and author of several books about Mary. Fr. Calloway's talk was sponsored by the Chapel Ministries Dept. at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVdYXyxln0
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The Rosary is a spiritual weapon. Continual prayer and adoration confounds Satan as he loses influence over those who do not cease focusing on Jesus.
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Pope's Intentions
NOVEMBER 2025
For the prevention of suicide – Let us pray that those who are tempted to commit suicide might find the support, care and love they need in their community, and be open to the beauty of life.
CHURCH COMMUNITY
OUR PARISHES IN BANCROFT AND HALIBURTON
WELCOME YOU!
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THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME​
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PLEASE FEEL FREE TO send in your Mass Intentions either by email or calling the parish office.
*Please also remember to send in names of anyone needing our prayers and they will be added to the Prayer Corner of our bulletin!
*Keep in mind that the Sanctuary Lamp is lit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can be lit for your own private intentions; for the intentions of a loved one; in the memory of a friend or relative; for an anniversary. The prayers and intentions are endless!
WE ALL NEED PRAYERS!!!
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This Week's Message-

What's Happening!
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Mass Schedule
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Saturday Mass @ 4:30 pm
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On Long Weekends only
Sunday Mass
@ 8:00 am
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There will be NO Wednesday Mass on October 29th.
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Weekday Mass
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Wednesdays
Adoration - 8:30 am
Mass - 9:30 am
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Mass at Extendicare
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November 12
11:00 am
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THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: The second parable that Jesus tells in Luke 18 addresses attitude in prayer. In contrasting the prayer of the Pharisee with the prayer of the tax collector, Jesus teaches his disciples to pray in humility before God. Jesus again surprises his listeners by showing the tax collector as the example of faith, rather than the Pharisee. Remember that Pharisees were members of a sect of Judaism active in Jesus' time. They taught an oral interpretation...




