On July 2 Archbishop Richard Smith, along with Deacon Patrick Hessel and Roger Plouffe, visited Yellowknife to join in a Eucharistic liturgy which featured the formalizing of a Covenant agreement between the Archdiocese of Edmonton and the Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort…
Read More CELEBRATING A NEW RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 2 WESTERN CANADIAN NORTHERN DIOCESES
VISIT TO THE ARCTIC REGION—LAND OF ICE & SUN!!! The Spring season has featured my first visit to the vast and wondrous Arctic region. This is the land of sun, ice, and snow! The Inuvialuit people are a robust people,…
Read More Spring Travels Eastern Arctic Part I of III – Uluhaktuk
The Dene peoples of this diocese have taught me much about walking with Our Lord during the sacred and holy time of Lent and now Easter. Lenten devotions are strong among the Sahtu Dene people, as I experienced in the…
Read More Celebrating the Lenten Passion and Easter Hope in the SAHTU & ATHABASCA REGIONS
Reflections by +Mark Hagemoen on the first few months as Bishop of the Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith Thus far my experience of the Diocese of Mackenzie- Fort Smith is one of finding in this cold place a people of warm…
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