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Aanii , Hello friends of Anishinabe Spiritual Centre!  Attached please find an invitation to the Annual First Nations Pilgrimage to Martyr Shrine in Midland on June 14,15 2024.  We invite all to join in!  There will be a guest speaker, more information on Joseph Chiwatenhwa (1600-1640) and of course our Patroness of Canada and personally, my active saint, St. Kateri.


Please don’t miss this opportunity!  Lunch will be provided on the day of:)  Call or email Rosella or to the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre (705-869-4994) to book your spot (we need to know how many for lunch).  We have been looking into group bookings for motels.  If you would want to go into a group booking please let us know asap.  The prices stated are approximate. The motels in the area are:

1.Comfort Inn Midland (705) 540-1581 (129.)
2. Midland Inn (705) 245- 1166 ($175.)
3. Silver Star Hotel (705) 245 – 6571 ($169)  

We hope you will join us on this pilgrimage.  It is a beautiful spiritual journey of prayer, history and friendship building.

Peace and blessings,

Eddie MacDonald
Director
Anishinabe Spiritual Centre

A Returning to Spirit Workshop will be held at St. Paul’s University from May 4th – 7th.

Returning to Spirit (RTS) is a non-profit healing and reconciliation initiative which organizes separate workshops for Aboriginal people, including former-residential school students, and for non-Aboriginal people, including men and women religious who taught and administered the schools, followed by a joint workshop with both groups. Its focus is on personal transformation and empowerment.

RTS was created by Marc Pizandawatc, an Algonquin from Kitiganzibi First Nation, and Ann Thompson, a Sister of Saint Anne from B.C. The two met during a workshop that Marc Pizandawatc was conducting in Yellowknife. From that conversation, “Returning to Spirit” was born. Through the initiative and efforts of the Most Reverend Denis Croteau, O.M.I., then the Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, the process was adopted and expanded in other dioceses.

The Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council also contributed to the development of Returning to Spirit by providing funding from the Fund for Reconciliation, Solidarity and Communion until RTS was incorporated in 2006.  Today, the RTS workshops have enabled hundreds of Church and First Nations persons to reclaim and reconstitute their personal and communal lives.

Catholic Bishops in Canada encourage RTS as a proven and effective process for healing, reconciliation and better mutual understanding.

Here is the link to register. 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeO4OypPL8Qbk-DhQijavi5xL5vSDyTkVn_stB_qVriUfBDAw/viewform

St. Basil’s Women in the Church Ministry in partnership with the Kateri Ministry, invites you to a celebration of the life of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. She is the first Native American to be recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. Join us to learn more about this special woman through prayer and reflection.   7:00 p.m., Thursday, April 18.  All are welcome.

Free Virtual Event
Time: BC 9:30am >AB/SK 10:30 am > MB 11:30 am >ON/QC 12:30 pm >Atlantic 1:30pm >NFLD 2 pm

Across Turtle Island Indigenous and non-Indigenous Catholics and friends are gathering virtually each month to pray the rosary in Indigenous languages spoken across the land.

The Holy Rosary is a prayer that is common to all Catholics in this land and has been prayed for generations in every indigenous language. This gathering is an opportunity to pray as one with the intention that “all who live in this land, Indigenous and non-Indigenous may experience healing and reconciliation on a renewed journey of justice and peace for our children”. (Intention courtesy of Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle)

No advanced registration is necessary. To join please use the NEW link below.

Launch Meeting – Zoom

Meeting ID: : 838 1035 9350

Image from: Juni from Kyoto, Japan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ROSARY On-Line Saturday, October 21st, 2023 BC 9am >Alta/Sask 10 am >Man 11am >ONT/Que 12 pm >Atlantic 1pm >NFLD 1:30pm

On the anniversary of the Canonization of St. Kateri Tekakwitha we are invited to pray together that “all who live in this land, Indigenous and non-Indigenous may experience healing and reconciliation on a renewed journey of justice and peace for our children”. (Intention courtesy of Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle)

The Holy Rosary is a prayer that is common to all Catholics in this land and has been prayed for generations in every indigenous language. We are invited to gather online to pray this prayer as one in 5 of Canada’s Indigenous languages. Click here to register, a Zoom link will be sent out on Friday, October 20.

MEDICING WALK WEEKEND CANCELLED

we are sad to announce the cancellation of our medicine walk this weekend due to a death in the Cree community. We pray for all those affected and hope to schedule something similar soon.

Miigwetch

Our pope has opened the season of creation with a powerful message on the importance of being stewards of creation. The full statement can be found below:

https://laudatosimovement.org/news/message-of-pope-francis-for-creation-day-2023/