Here is a text written by Fr. Bruno Cloutier as he celebrates his first year of priestly ministry.

It has already been a year that I have been a priest of the Lord for you!

With much joy and wonder, I am celebrating my first anniversary of priestly ordination by Bishop Christian Lépine at Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs church in Verdun, on June 22, 2019. 

I give thanks to the Lord for all the joy that the ministry has brought me during this year. I am currently the curate at Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Rosaire parish in the Villeray neighbourhood and I rejoice every day in my fraternal commitment to help the community grow together.  If it is said that the joy of serving bears witness to the loving presence of God among us, then I cannot but express all the pride I have in accompanying the people of God entrusted to me and in watching over them.

THANK YOU for praying for me and encouraging me to continue to be the pastor that the Lord calls me to be. For "it is by the grace of God that I am what I am, and His grace with me has not been in vain! "(1Co 15:10)

Bruno Cloutier