This parish is incredible.  I have to admit that the response to our call for book donations over the past month and a week has been astounding.  The parishioners of this parish gave a ridiculous amount of high quality books and I am so grateful for their generosity.  I have to admit though, I was [...]

The St. Bonaventure Parish Baseball Spring Fling this past weekend was certainly amazing!   While the organizers were frazzled by the weather on the day of the event, they certainly made the whole spring fling incredibly fun, even if it was raining outside we were warm and excited inside!

The parish hall was certainly buzzing with [...]

This past weekend one of our Youth Council members announced the Transitions Retreat at the 12pm Mass.  He introduced the retreat so well that I wanted to put his announcement into my blog, here is Ike Osuji, imagine the words coming from his mouth…

Hello everyone!
I’m sure some of you are excited about the new [...]

THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES IN THE GTA! This event is sponsored by St. Bonaventure Parish, but you don’t have to be a member of this parish to participate in this event.
Ahhh yes, for many students the end of high school spells one thing…f-r-e-e-d-o-m!  The beginning of university, college, or a [...]

Wow, God is certainly good to me.  A couple of Sunday’s ago one of our youth at the Parish asked if we could have an Arts Camp at St. Bonaventure Parish Hall over the summer.   When I mentioned this at one of our Youth Council meetings, one of the youth said “Yeah, and lets make [...]

Ok, so here is a confession….I love books.  I love to read and right now I’m constantly reading because alongside of working as a full time Youth Minister, I am writing my final paper for my Masters of Divinity.  This means I’m reading a lot of books on Ordination right now.
But besides books on the [...]

On May 28th some of our youth attended the Office of Catholic Youth event, ‘A Celebration of Youth’ Banquet at the Sheraton Hotel in Richmond Hill. Wow, there were hundreds of youth there from ALL OVER the GTA. It was incredible to see the vast amount of Parishes that were represented at this [...]

Toronto minister, Nate Gerber…replacing hymns with hip hop!  The documentary, Hip n Holy, aired on Global TV at 10pm on Monday, May 25, 2009

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So the documentary ‘Hip to be Holy’ was certainly interesting.  The documentary focused on two individuals from the Evangelical Church who are finding new and interesting ways to reach out to [...]