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 Holiday Schedules.
A VERY MERRY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES
May the joy, peace and love of Jesus' birth, help each of you to find Christ in the poor and marginalized, live out mercy and forgiveness, and keep the Mass central to the celebration.
Thank you for your love, care and support for your parish home and family this past year!
May 2026 be a year where we all grow spiritually through prayer and the sacraments.
Blessings to all of you for a holy Christmas
and a grace-filled New Year.
May God's love enter your lives
through the Incarnation.
December 24, Christmas Eve
Advent: December 24th
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Christmas Eve marks the end of Advent. The liturgical texts express wholehearted confidence in the imminent coming of the Redeemer. There is much joyous expectation. Most families have their own observances, customs that should be preserved from generation to generation. Today is the last day of our Christmas Novena and last day of the Jesse Tree.
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Christmas Eve at Church
The entire liturgy of Christmas Eve is consecrated to the anticipation of the certain and sure arrival of the Savior: "Today you shall know that the Lord shall come and tomorrow you shall see His glory" (Invitatory of Matins for the Vigil of the Nativity). Throughout Advent we have seen how the preparation for Jesus' coming became more and more precise. Isaiah, John the Baptist and the Virgin Mother appeared throughout the season announcing and foretelling the coming of the King. We learn today that Christ according to His human nature is born at Bethlehem of the House of David of the Virgin Mary, and that according to His divine nature He is conceived of the Spirit of holiness, the Son of God and the Second Person of the Trinity.
The certitude of His coming is made clear in two images. The first is that of the closed gate of paradise. Since our first parents were cast forth from the earthly paradise the gate has been closed and a cherubim stands guard with flaming sword. The Redeemer alone is able to open this door and enter in. On Christmas Eve we stand before the gate of paradise, and it is for this reason that Psalm 23 is the theme of the vigil:
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Lift up your gates, O princes,
Open wide, eternal gates,
That the King of Glory may enter in. . . .
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Read More:
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2025-12-24
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Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)
Christmas: December 25th
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The Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Nativity the Lord, the Birth of Jesus Christ, and the First Day in the Octave of Christmas. Throughout Advent the Church longed ardently for the coming of our Savior. Today she celebrates His birth with unrestrained joy. "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." The Son of God became man to give us a share in that divine life which is eternally His in the Blessed Trinity. Christmas time begins on December 24 with the first Vespers of the feast and ends on the feast of the Baptism of Christ. White vestments reappear in our churches as a sign of joy.
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The Gospel is from the Gospel of John 1:1-18. The message the Church wishes us to hear from the readings that are read at the Sunday Masses of Advent and at the three Christmas Masses is surely this: "God so loved the world (i.e. us) that he gave his only-begotten Son a human nature, to dwell among us, to teach us, and finally to die for us....God loved us, that he has done wondrous things for us because of that love. One of these things, the greatest of them, is that today's gospel puts so clearly before us: it is the fact of the Incarnation which joined our human nature with the divinity in the Person of Christ, and thereby made us heirs of heaven.
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—Excerpted from The Sunday Readings by Fr. Kevin O'Sullivan, O.F.M.
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Read More:
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2025-12-25
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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
JANUARY 2026
For prayer with the Word of God – Let us pray that praying with the Word of God be nourishment for our lives and a source of hope in our communities, helping us to build a more fraternal and missionary Church.
CHURCH COMMUNITY
OUR PARISHES IN BANCROFT AND HALIBURTON
WELCOME YOU!
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FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT​
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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 morning Mass on Christmas Eve​
Weekday Mass
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Wednesdays
Adoration - 8:30 am
Mass - 9:30 am
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Mass at Extendicare
There will be no Mass for January. It will resume ​
February 11th 2026
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FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT: The Gospel of this Sunday, from the Gospel of Matthew 1:18-24 begins in a typical Hebrew fashion, by giving the genealogical table of Jesus, who was born of Mary. He does not mention the Annunciation, nor Mary's problem of preserving virginity while becoming a mother. But the revelation given to Joseph, Mary's betrothed, which Matthew here describes, brings out the fact of the virginal conception of Jesus, and his messianic mission of salvation. Matthew then adds that Christ was the Messiah, to be born...
