Outreach provides services/help to the congregation and those in the outside community who are in need:     
    ● Emergency financial help for food, rent, heating and emergency travel,        
    ● Monthly identified specific food needs for area food banks,
    ● Monthly cookie collections for the Men’s and Women’s shelters,
    ● The knitting group who, meet weekly at Holy Family, provide warm hats,
       gloves, socks during winter for the homeless, and clients at several shelters
       for abused partners and children. In addition, they also provided shawls for
       the clients at several nursing homes in our Parish including the clients at Hospice,
    ● Aug/Sept in conjunction with the needs of the food bank, school
       supplies for the new academic year. 

Outreach supports the Church congregation through:
    ● Healing Masses in Lent and Advent,
    ● Yearly remembrance ceremony in November for those families
       who have lost loved ones over the past year,
    ● Weekly rosary prayer including the appropriate mysteries for
        the liturgical cycle. Open to all who wish to attend,
    ● Weekly rosary prayer including the appropriate mysteries for
        the liturgical cycle. Open to all who wish to attend,
    ● Deliver the yearly Lenten “Peace and Development” drive for resources, and
    ● Providing Lay Presiding Services with communion monthly for
       Retirement residences within the Parish.

Other Activities:
    ● Free use of the Church Hall to Girl Guides, for their weekly meeting.
    ● Broadcast of one weekend Mass on our webpage with storage on
       YouTube for those members of the congregation who are house bond
       and unable to attend Church services.
   ● Over the past seven years St Kateri Tekakwitha Parish’s Out Reach
      has participated in the welcoming and establishment of two Syrian
      families in Fredericton.  Also, four Eritrean men were assisted in moving
      from Israel to Canada. Presently, there is a movement to sponsor an
      Eritrean family, who have immediate family in Fredericton, coming to
      Canada to live in peace and stability.  

For information on this Ministry, please contact the Parish Office at 444-6021 or email office@stkateri.ca