This year, the diocese’s Office for Consecrated Life and the Social Action Office decided to collaborate, outside their separate mandates, for the occasion of the Carrefour Encounter activities, in which, every year at this time, those in consecrated life gathered together.

Did you know that Quebec bishops have instituted a Sunday of prayer and action for peace? This day of prayer, which concludes the United Nations Disarmament Week at the end of October, has as its purpose the promotion of awareness and understanding of the question of disarmament.

The fifth annual World Day of the Poor, an initiative of Pope Francis, will be celebrated this year on November 13-14. In Canada, our slogan for this year is the phrase: "Open the doors of my heart." The event is being promoted by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which this year celebrates its 175th anniversary in Canada.

The General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops extends the deadline for the first phase of the synodal process to August 15, 2022.

On Sunday, October 24, in a prayerful Mass attended by Archbishop Lépine, eleven lay people joined the Communauté Catholique Mère du Divin Amour.