MONTREAL, Canada – The preparation for the Consecration to Jesus through Mary, carefully adapted to our contemporary reality while preserving the spirit and various references of Father de Montfort, was led by Father Doris TOMBAOSA, S.M.M., and took place throughout the fall of 2024 at the Marie-Reine-des-Cœurs Sanctuary in Montreal....

OTTAWA, Canada - The snow and wind calmed just in time for us to celebrate the Immaculate Conception. About a hundred people came to Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Church in Ottawa for this Mass on Monday, December 9, 2024...

MONTREAL, Canada - As part of his visit to the Canadian province in November 2024, Father Yoseph Putra Dwi Darma WATUN, SMM, Superior General of the congregation, came to meet with the associates of the Mary Queen of Hearts Shrine on Saturday, November 9, 2024. We welcomed him with great joy and expressed our gratitude for his presence among us...

CANADA - Because of the delay in the approval of their visa to Canada, they had to postpone their visit to November 12. Only Father Yoseph Putra Dwi Darma WATUN, SMM, Superior General, received his visa for the visit. Father Lonely Paul MASHONGA, SMM, representative for America, is still waiting for his visa...

CANADA - On Saturday, December 16, 2023, the festive Christmas meeting of the associates took place in Montreal, where the Fathers from the Sanctuary were invited.

CANADA - At mass on December 8, 2023, a small group of men and women made their first consecration to Jesus through Mary in the spirit of Saint Louis de Montfort. After the homily, they placed a candle at the foot of the statue of Marie-Reine-des-Cœurs. Surrounded by the Montfort Associates of Ottawa and ....

CANADA - On November 15, 2023, at the request of the Generalate, the Marie-Reine-des-Coeurs Shrine hosted a meeting to share the minutes of the last General Chapter. The day began with an appropriate song for the day, “Tournée vers l'Avenir” by “Jo Akepsimas” and the General Chapter prayer...

OTTAWA, Canada - Every day at Mass, we recited the prayer of the novena for the feast of the Assumption. The Most Reverend Gilles CÔTÉ, SMM, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Daru-Kiunga, Papua New Guinea, presided over the celebration...

MONTREAL, Canada - At the end of a preparatory novena for the great feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, under the theme Being a disciple of Jesus at the school of Mary, animated by different ethnic groups, a solemn and prayerful mass was held on Tuesday August 15, 2023, at the Mary Queen-of- ...

OTTAWA, Canada - The Holy Week began with the blessing of the Palms followed by a procession throughout the church in which the faithful were proudly acclaiming Christ present in their lives. On Sunday, the Passion according to Matthew was proclaimed with the participation of three readers....

OTTAWA, Canada - In the afternoon of the 2nd of March 2023, there was a gathering of the Montfort Missionaries residing at the presbytery of the parish of Notre Dame de Lourdes in Vanier, Ottawa, with sister Hélène LeMay, Daughter of Wisdom.

OTTAWA, Canada - On Saturday evening, February 11, 2023 many people joined the parishioners of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes to honor their mother: the Virgin Mary.

MONTREAL, Canada - On January 11, 2023, the Vice-Province of Canada met in Montreal in view of the next General Chapter. The motive was to elect a delegate to accompany the Provincial to the General Chapter. Father Louis-Paul St-Laurent was unanimously elected...

CANADA - After a long period of estrangement due to the pandemic, the Montfortian associates of the Shrine of Mary Queen of Hearts were happy to meet again on Saturday, October 8th, 2022, to renew their commitment by giving new life to the sense of belonging to the family that we form as associates and to our availability to respond to the needs that arise...

MONTREAL, Canada - Since the beginning of October, about fifteen people have been preparing to consecrate themselves to Christ Wisdom through the maternal mediation of the Virgin Mary. At the rate of a one-hour session per week, the consecration will take place on December 8, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate - Conception of the Virgin Mary, the All Holy...

CANADA - On Saturday, May 21, 2022, the Sanctuary of Mary Queen of Hearts lay associates’ monthly meeting took place, and to which the Ottawa associates joined for the first time...