PEI Life Association is holding its annual baby bottle campaign, Change4LIFE, from March 1st to April 16th, to promote LIFE on PEI. Join us in helping advance the beauty of LIFE on PEI. Change4LIFE is one of many ways that PEI Life aims to help the most vulnerable on PEI and make changes for LIFE! There are two ways to support: Online option as an individual or as a team is via: www.PEILIFE.org – click donate, or by taking a bottle from the back of the church. Take a bottle, sign up bottle number and your name, fill the bottle, and return it on Sunday, April 16th to your parish. Questions: Call Pat at 902-894-5473 or email office@peilife.org .
Young Adult Retreat (ages 18 and up)… What is God’s Plan for you ?
Come and Learn how to hear the voice of God and discover His plan for you. Saturday March 18th from 9:00 am until 4:00pm at St. Paul’s Parish in Summerside. Please register by emailing office@stpaulsparish.ca Please bring a lunch.
Development and Peace’s Lenten theme is Create Hope: Stand for the Land. This year’s Share Lent Campaign supports 86 projects in 40 countries. Please support our sisters and brothers in the Global South in defending their land and territory by donating generously to the Share Lent Campaign and by learning more from the Mini-magazine and other resources available at www.devp.org/lent/resources. Development and Peace Invites you Join us Sunday, March 19, St. Pius X church,1:30 pm-3:30pm for our annual Lenten workshop and 55th Anniversary of D&P. The guest speaker is Ramy Chan of Cambodia, who will speak on her work, and how Cambodians are defending their land and territory. Please join us.
Upper Room Young Adult Ministry is organising a 40 Hour Devotion at St. Dunstan’s on Wednesday March 15th @ 7:30 pm, ending with Mass on Friday March 17th at 9:00 am in Glastonbury Hall for the intentions of our eventual new Bishop. The 40 Hour devotion is the ancient origin of perpetual adoration. It is important to fill all 40 hours – if interested please contact Aaron Arbuckle : aaronjmarbuckle@outlook.com .
Dr. Joan Campbell, CSM, is offering five Zoom sessions on the Passion of Jesus every Wednesday from March 1 to March 29 (6:45 to 8:00 pm). We will focus on the Way to the Cross in the Gospel of Mark and the passion narratives in all four canonical gospels. Fee $25. To register contact Sister Joan at drjoancsm@gmail.com. For more information visit our website: pei-marthas.ca.
PEI Indigenous History: Come and learn some of the history of the Mi’kmaq people of PEI with the Island’s former poet laureate Julie Pellisier-Lush. There will be two sessions at the Martha Spirituality Centre: on Thursdays March 16 and March 30 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. To register contact Sister Joan at drjoancsm@gmail.com Fee: Goodwill offering to support Centre programs. For more information visit our website: pei-marthas.ca.
Bishops and Catholic organizations in Canada launch Turkey/Syria Earthquake Emergency Aid Campaign: With the support of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Aid to Church in Need (ACN), Canadian Jesuits International (CJI), Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) Canada, and Development and Peace-Caritas Canada (DPCC) have launched an emergency aid campaign in response to the destructive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6. If you wish to donate to this Emergency Aid Campaign, you can do so at or call toll free to 1-800-585-6333 Ext 228. Funds raised will be used for food, medical supplies, shelter and other human essentials