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Reverend
Father Patrick Tepoorten
Pastor - Curé
Dear parishioners and friends of Our Lady of
Fatima, welcome all of you to explore our Parish website, The website should enable more and more people to have access to our Parish happenings. Believe me, there are lots of happenings
around here. This is "the" place to be in Coquitlam for Parish action. |
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Our Lady of Fatima Parish is a vibrant community with a very big heart.
We are part of the greater community of Parishes within the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Vancouver, and we are proud of our involvement in various Archdiocesan
projects: among them,
Archbishop Carney Regional Secondary, the
Our Lady of Good Counsel Society for women in distress, and Project Advance.
We were carved out of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish on Laval Square in
Maillardville, Coquitlam, in 1946. Since that very humble beginning, we have
seen our Parish school built in 1948, then our magnificent Church erected in
1958, and the Fatima Centre gymnasium complex in 1985.
We are a very ethnically diverse community, which is proud of its original French
heritage. We maintain one Sunday Mass in French, held at nine in the
morning, not to mention that three of our six regularly scheduled morning
Masses are in French. We are also committed to a bilingual French immersion
program in our Parish school. We also celebrate
Mass in Cantonese every third Sunday of
the month at 2:00pm. The great "Festival Du Bois" of Coquitlam, now
one of the major cultural festivals of British Columbia, began in our Parish
Hall some years ago. It is our hope that similar events celebrating
the multicultural mosaic of our parish will one day be a strong uniting
force in the brotherhood of Christ. |
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| In recent years, our Parish has been enriched by a stronger presence of
the Asian community, especially by new parish families of Korean, Cantonese and Filipino descent. Our
"Annual Asian Night" event, celebrated around the time of Chinese New Year, is not to be missed. We have also seen a
steady rise in the numbers of our Polish families, and we accommodate them by
the special blessing of Easter food every Holy Saturday morning. Come and enjoy our diverse community. Nous accueillons la participation des Francophones dans notre paroisse
bilingue.
Nous vous acceuillons
chaleureusement.
Yours
devotedly in Our Lord,
Father Patrick B. Tepoorten,
Pastor - Curé
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Our parish
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Comprised of over 800 families, Our Lady of
Fatima Parish Paroisse Notre Dame de Fatima, is located in Maillardville, a
predominantly French Canadian community founded at the turn of the
century.
Although services are offered in both French and
English, our parish spans a diversity of cultures and languages embracing and
celebrating in a truly catholic and universal approach to worship. With
open arms we welcome all who come to Jesus.
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Contact Information
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The Rectory Office is usually open from 9:00 am to 5:00
pm (pacific) Monday through Friday and closed statutory holidays.
Our Parish Secretary, Ms. Louise Edwards, is very
familiar with all aspects of running the office at maximum efficiency.
Father Patrick Tepoorten was ordained May 30, 1981 and has been our Pastor since
July 29, 1998. |
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| Telephone: |
604.936.2525 |
| FAX: |
604.936.2524 |
| Postal address: |
315 Walker Street, Coquitlam, BC - V3K 4C7 |
| Electronic mail: |
ourladyoffatima@shaw.ca |
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