...on this your night of grace, accept this candle as a solemn offering...

From the Archbishop’s office:

Parishes are asked to encourage their parishioners to place a lighted candle in their windows on Holy Saturday night. This is meant to be a sign of the Light of Christ which dispels all darkness and a gesture of our solidarity on this Holy Night.

Parishes whose churches have bells are asked to ring their bells for five minutes beginning at noon on Easter Sunday. This is meant to be an expression of our Easter Joy.

I would encourage you to invite your parishioners to pray the nine-day Divine Mercy Novena leading up to Divine Mercy Sunday, April 19, 2020. The novena would begin on Good Friday, April 10th. The intention of this Divine Mercy Novena will be for an end to the coronavirus health crisis in Canada and throughout the world. We include in our prayers the intentions of all health care workers and those who are struggling with the virus and those who have died. (you can find the Divine Mercy Chaplet on our Archdiocesan website: www.archwinnipeg.ca.)

Ste Rose Church hasn’t any bells to ring, I’m sorry to say, but the churches in Laurier and McCreary intend to ring theirs Easter morning and all the Sundays in Easter.