Beloved friends of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus, Peace be with you. I find it a privilege to reach out to you (individually, as families and as communities) during this period of COVID 19 pandemic. Every passing day is a precious gift as we reassure ourselves of the...
To all of our friends and benefactors far and wide, we, the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus in Canada want to wish you a blessed Christmas Season, in the joy and salvation in the heart of the Christ Child. May you and your loved ones be filled with the...
Once again we are at the end of the Church’s Liturgical Year. This is just a reminder that, the church’s liturgical year ends with the celebration of the feast of Christ the King which is usually on the fourth Sunday of November and the days following it till the evening...
This is really a month of the Great ALLELUIA. This is because our Saviour and Lord, Jesus Christ conquered, Death and the Grave and in His great Power rose from the dead making us all the children of the Resurrection. So, we urge each of you to ask for God’s...
Easter is the greatest feast of all in our faith. It is the period the hopelessness caused by the death of Christ turned into Eternal hope and Life. The whole story on Christ’ empty Tomb (His Resurrection) is found in the following Scriptural passages: The Gospels of Matthew 28.1-8, Mark...
After 39 days from Ash Wednesday in 2018, we are now poised to begin the Holy Week celebrations. Lent 2018 cannot be relived but we have Palm Sunday to step into the Holy Week. But why Palm Sunday? Palm Sunday has to be because Jesus was given a hero’s reception...
Once again, we are in the season of Lent. We are into that yearly season set aside by the church where faithful Christians are called to pause and reflect during this forty days and nights. Our Lord Jesus Himself spent forty days and forty nights in the desert before His...
Praise the Living God! It is a thing of great joy that we the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus here in Canada are part of this epoch making celebration of Two Hundred Years of the arrival of the First Missionaries in the Western and Northern Canada. This celebration is...
Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him. Show us your face and we will be saved. Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus and Matthew from being enslaved by money; the adulteress and Magdalene from...
As we sing the Lectionary procession song before Mass, the sacred Word of God is brought to the altar. The Sisters join together in a song praising the Lord. Sr. Jacinta sings a traditional song & Sr. Glory in the traditional dance. From our celebration on April 17, 2016, on the...
