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Masses
Sunday: 9 a.m.
Monday to Saturday: 7 a.m.
Other Services
Reconciliation: any time
Originally the farm and summer home of Sir Henry
Pellatt, during the depression in the thirties the Basilian Fathers
established an agricultural school on the property. In 1942, James Cardinal
McGuigan, the Archbishop of Toronto, invited the Augustinians to
establish a shrine and to offer a program of weekend retreats for lay
people. The title Our Lady of Grace comes from an
Augustinian shrine in Lisbon, Portugal. The retreat program,
initiated in 1943, so prospered that it was necessary to double the
facilities for retreatants by adding to the red brick "farmer's house" in
the early fifties. In order to house the steadily growing religious
community of Augustinians and to provide pilgrims with a place of worship, a
new monastery and shrine church were built in the sixties. In
1964, Cardinal McGuigan laid the cornerstone for the new shrine building and
it was dedicated in 1978 by
Cardinal Carter.
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