Society of St. Vincent de Paul - Newmarket Conference

10/09/2026

Every play supports local charities such as ours.

10/09/2026

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul is a proud participant of Charitable Gaming. Community Good!

Through funds raised at Bingo World & Gaming Newmarket and donations from the community, we can continue our important work in the community.

This includes giving Fresh Food Boxes to registered needy families in Newmarket/East Gwillimbury.

Also the SSVP has created a handy Community Reference Guide for our clients that provides contact information for other services offered in our community.

Every play supports local charities such as ours.

09/19/2026

There must be a lesson here somewhere

08/26/2026

08/22/2026

Three women were sexually assaulted in Markham over the course of just one week.

This is frightening and our response cannot simply be to tell women to be more careful!

Women should not have to change their routes, avoid walking alone, watch the clock, or constantly look over their shoulders just to feel safe in their own communities.
They deserve to feel safe. At home. At work. On our streets. In every part of their community.

Sexual violence is not just an individual problem. It is a community issue, and creating safer communities requires all of us to take it seriously, speak up when we see harmful behaviour, challenge attitudes that normalize violence and make prevention part of the conversation.

We stand with the women who were harmed and with every survivor of sexual violence.

Safety should not depend on how careful a woman is. It should be something our communities work together to protect.

08/22/2026

Embracing Our Common Home

St. Francis of Assisi saw all of creation as a gift from God, calling the sun, moon, animals, and the earth his brothers and sisters. His example invites us to see creation not as something to possess, but as something to protect for future generations.

"Praised be You, my Lord, through all Your creatures." - Canticle of the Creatures

08/19/2026

Many hard-working taxpayers have a jaundiced view of social programs based on the commonly held premise that people should get what they deserve, no more and no less, where society defines what they deserve.
Jesus challenges his followers to a more compassionate approach, see people's authentic needs, and be generous in helping them meet those needs to the extent that we are able. See today's gospel on the labourers in the vineyard - Matthew 20:1-16.
Sometimes the need is for a fishing rod, but in the meantime people still need a fish to eat. The labourers in the vineyard who only worked one hour had the same need for a day's wage as those who worked all day.

Image credit: This image is owned by Donatella Cinelli Colombini, an iconic Italian winemaker and estate owner in Tuscany, Italy.

08/06/2026

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

08/01/2026

Anytime we use our sacred writings to justify acts of exclusion, rejection, and hegemony we are neglecting justice, mercy, and love. By doing so, we deploy our holy scriptures to do more harm than good, causing us to fall into the same hypocrisy that Jesus condemned.
—Randy Woodley, quoted by Fr Richard Rohr O.F.M

The Indigenous theologian Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley considers Jesus’s criticism of certain religious leaders in his day and how they interpreted Scripture: