Our website has been going through several changes and adaptations with the intention of serving you better. I hope you will find the new format more user friendly and will help you to interact with our parish and the rest of Mother Church. We have included a link to other useful websites that you will find helpful to acquaint yourself with news and events that are happening in our church today.

We are pleased to report that we have resumed the celebration of the Eucharist at St. Elizabeth Parish! So far, it has been a very engaging activity but has been worth the effort. We are so grateful to the volunteers who have been generous with their time and resources to organize the return to church and to do it within the established guidelines.

To comply with provincial health regulations, the Archdiocese of Ottawa requires us to adopt some best practices for safeguarding the health of our parishioners and volunteers. Many of these adaptations will be familiar as we have been doing most of these things already. The most significant are the following:

Physical Distancing and Safety Precautions:

• Masks are required inside the church.
• Hand Sanitizer will be available at the Entrance and Exits.
• To maintain physical distancing, pews are assigned for seating. Please only use pews with are labelled. Families may sit together.
• There will be no hymnals, bulletins or other paper handouts. Bulletins are posted on the website.
• At Holy Communion, we remain standing and the ministers will come to our pews and will offer communion to us there.
• Only one washroom for emergency use will be open. Downstairs’ toilets are out of bounds.
• Please observe physical distancing in the parking lot and exit expeditiously after Mass to avoid congregating in groups. This is a bit difficult, but we have to try for the sake of one another.

Thank you for your prayers and cooperation in reopening the church. We are excited about this.