Welcome
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to the website of St John Henry Newman, Victoria, British Columbia. We are a Roman Catholic parish of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, a body established in 2011 following Pope Benedict XVI’s historic Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, which made it possible for groups of Anglicans to come into the full communion of the Catholic Church whilst retaining elements of their liturgical, spiritual, and cultural patrimony as a gift and a treasure to be shared with the whole Church. Our community is under the patronage of the great theologian and priest St John Henry, Cardinal Newman, a 19th century Anglican convert to the Catholic Church who was canonised in 2019, and named a Doctor of the Church in 2025.
We are a friendly, family-oriented, and welcoming community of traditional Catholic faith and practice, as reflected in our liturgy, music, and preaching. We exist to worship God in the triune majesty of the Blessed Trinity, drawing all men and women into deepest communion with him through his Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and in the power and fellowship of the Holy Spirit. |
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Services This Week
Our present home is the Church of Our Lady, Queen of Peace, built in 1930 as a memorial to those who died in the First World War. The church lies just west of downtown Victoria, in Esquimalt, and is a parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria.
Confessions are heard on Sunday from 1.50-2.25 pm (2.50-3.25 pm on the third Sunday of the month), from 9-9.15 am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday (also 10.30-11.20 am on Saturday), and 9.30-9.45 am on Friday. Appointments for other times may be made by contacting Fr Kenyon. 
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Sunday 7 December
ADVENT II Mass 7.30 am | Confessions 1.50-2.20 pm SOLEMN MASS & BAPTISM 2.30 pm Confessions for 20 minutes after Mass | Evensong 5 pm Isaiah 11.1–10 | Romans 15.4–9 | St Matthew 3.1–12 Monday 8 December THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BVM Mattins 9.30 am | Terce 10 am | Confessions 10-10.15 am Mass & Confirmation 10.30 am | Rosary 11.20 am Genesis 3.9–15, 20 | Ephesians 1.3–6, 11–12 | St Luke 1.26–28 Tuesday 9 December St Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin Mattins 8.30 am | Terce 9 am Confessions 9-9.15 am | Mass 9.30 am 1 Corinthians 1.26–31 | St Matthew 11.25–30 Wednesday 10 December Our Lady of Loreto Mattins 8.30 am | Terce 9 am | Confessions 9-9.15 am Mass 9.30 am | Rosary 10.20 am Isaiah 7.10–14; 8.10 | St Luke 1.26–38 Thursday 11 December St Damasus I, Pope Mattins 8.30 am | Terce 9 am | Confessions 9-9.15 am Mass 9.30 am | Chaplet of the Dead 10.20 am Acts 20.17–18a, 28–32, 36 | St John 15.9–17 Friday 12 December Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patron of the Americas [Abstinence] Mattins 9 am | Mass 10 am Divine Mercy Chaplet 10.50 am Revelation 11.19a; 12.1–6a, 10ab | St Luke 1.26–38 Saturday 13 December St Lucy, Virgin & Martyr Rorate Mass 7 am | followed by a potluck breakfast Wedding 1 pm Isaiah 7.10–15 | St Luke 1.26–38 Sunday 14 December GAUDETE SUNDAY (Bambinelli Sunday) Mass 7.30 am | Confessions 1.50-2.20 pm SOLEMN MASS & Blessing of Bambinelli 2.30 pm Confessions for 20 minutes after Mass | Evensong 5 pm Isaiah 35.1–6a, 10 | James 5.7–10 | St Matthew 11.2–11 |
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MASS INTENTIONS & CARDS
Masses are offered at St John Henry’s for a particular intention: a loved one, living or departed (especially on, or close to, their anniversary), the sick and suffering, the dying, friends, family members, priests, religious, etc. The suggested donation is $10, which goes directly to support the work of our mission and outreach. Intentions should be requested of Dominic Kenyon at [email protected] and donations can be sent by e-transfer to [email protected] or given by cash or cheque to Dominic.
Mass cards are available for those who, having requested a particular intention for a Mass for the living or for the departed, may wish to keep a card for themselves, or to send one to friends or family. These cards come from the Benedictines at St Michael’s Abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire, whose website can be accessed here. The cost is $5 per card. Please contact Dominic Kenyon.
Mass cards are available for those who, having requested a particular intention for a Mass for the living or for the departed, may wish to keep a card for themselves, or to send one to friends or family. These cards come from the Benedictines at St Michael’s Abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire, whose website can be accessed here. The cost is $5 per card. Please contact Dominic Kenyon.
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E-Transfer is available for those who wish to make a donation to our parish directly from a Canadian bank account. To send money via e-Transfer, please use the following address [email protected]
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The Ordinariate
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The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in Canada and the United States is one of three personal ordinariates in the world, the others being the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (Great Britain), and the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia, Japan, and Guam). These bodies, similar to a diocese, are not however based on geography, but rather on membership, and membership is by personal choice, which is why each ordinariate is ‘Personal’.
Members of the Ordinariate are fully integrated into the life of the Catholic Church. Most were former Anglicans, received into the full communion of the Church, others have become members by virtue of baptism, marriage, or who have family members in the Ordinariate. All are fully Catholic, able to receive the Sacraments in any Catholic church. And similarly any Catholic may attend Mass celebrated according to the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite (Divine Worship: The Missal) and receive the Sacraments from an Ordinariate priest. All are welcome! |
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Anglicanorum coetibus (Groups of Anglicans), was published in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. This was the favourable response of the Holy See to repeated petitions from Anglicans to be received into full communion in a corporate manner. The erection of ordinariates was the practical means to make this response a reality. Since the establishment of the first Ordinariate in England and Wales in 2011 thousands of Anglicans have made the journey home to the fulness of the Catholic Church whilst retaining elements of those Anglican traditions - liturgical, spiritual, and pastoral - which both nourished them and served as an impetus towards full communion. This noble patrimony is now, in the words of Anglicanorum coetibus, ‘a treasure to be shared’ with the whole Church.
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