For the third time, an Indigenous Mass will be held at the Church of the Gesù on Sunday, June 20, at 6:00 p.m., on the eve of National Indigenous Peoples Day, for Joyce Echaquan, Raphael André and the 215 children whose remains were discovered in Kamloops, B.C. Elders Tom Dearhouse and Marie-Laure Simon will be present, and Auxiliary Bishop Alain Faubert of Montreal will preside. The Mass will be broadcast through their YouTube channel with thanks to the Jesuits for their warm generosity.

How do you prepare for the sacrament of marriage in the time of pandemic? We sat down with Ms. Bridget Bagshaw, coordinator of the diocesan marriage preparation program, to find out. Adaptation, hope, resilience and joy: these are some of the key words that sum up her experience of accompanying over a hundred couples in their journey towards marriage in the past year.

The fate of residential school children in Kamloops has shed further light on a dark episode in Canadian history, one that can leave no man or woman, believer or non-believer unmoved. Our most fundamental values are under attack when the integrity of families and the respect that is due to every human being are so utterly violated.

Linda Leblanc will enter the Order of Consecrated Virgins during a Mass at Mary Queen of the World Cathedral on June 12. Having begun her professional career as a nurse and now osteopath, Linda says this commitment is the reflection of her desire ‘‘to be a witness in the world of the Bride of Christ,’’ which is ‘‘not an individual, it is the Church.’’