Guilds & Associations

Updated: 26APRIL2024

NEWMAN ROSARY GUILD

Prayer resources, news and international events.

VICTORIA ORDINARIATE ALTAR SERVERS

Training resources and link to the Guild of Saint Stephen.

GUILD OF THE HOLY SOULS

THE GUILD OF THE HOLY SOULS at St John Henry’s, launched in November 2023, is based on the Guild of All Souls, founded in England in 1873 and, thus, is essentially a prayer guild, available to all Catholics. The Guild seeks to promote the teaching of the Catholic Church in regard to the Faithful Departed principally through intercessory prayer for the dying and for the repose of the Holy Souls. The Guild encourages serious preparation for death (making of a will, legacies, detailed funeral instructions, etc.), and time-honoured Christian customs for those approaching death (prayers, litanies, the presence of a priest, etc.) and especially at, and following burial or cremation (Vigil, Requiem Masses, visits to the cemetery). The Guild also seeks to offer consolation and prayer for the bereaved.

The Guild promotes the two great doctrines of the Christian Creed, namely, the Communion of Saints and the Resurrection from the Dead, in support of which the Guild promotes awareness through teaching and study of the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell.

LADIES ORDINARIATE GROUP (UK)

ROSARY CONFRATERNITY

ASSOCIAZIONE INTERNATIONALE ESORCISTI

The International Association of Exorcists was founded in 1994 by Fr Gabriele Amorth and Fr René Chenesseau. It has been recognized by the Church as a Private Association of the Christian Faithful.

THE CANADIAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

The CCHA’s mandate is to:
  • to promote the presentation and understanding of historical sites and buildings, documents, and significant heirlooms of the past;
  • to print and distribute its own publications: Historical Studies, and other works about Canadian Catholic History, as the occasion warrants or circumstances permit.
THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION
The Catholic Association (TCA) is dedicated to being a faithful Catholic voice in the public square. TCA is responding to the call of the Catholic Church for members of the lay faithful to apply Catholic teaching, wisdom, and principles to the issues of the day.

THOMAS MORE Lawyers' Guild of Toronto
CATHOLIC BAR ASSOCIATION
The National Catholic Legal Organization that Unites, Evangelizes, Grows and Supports Catholic Lawyers and related Professionals.

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