Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall

1st Sunday of Lent – Archbishop Damphousse

Modern technology gives us easy access to vast amounts of information and resources to organize our days, our travels, our communications. Just think how often you use your smartphone to get quick information. For life’s big questions, for important and difficult decisions, for complicated choices in a confusing and seductive world, who do we go to?

Let’s begin these 40 days of Lent with the Lord Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Let’s learn to trust him and pray that he will mark out the right path before us. Our journey begins in the desert this Sunday as Jesus is led by the Spirit. His heart is set on the mission at hand: to establish the Kingdom of God. Anyone interested in joining him?

✠ Marcel Damphousse

Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall

Sample Will Wording and Charity Number

It is important that your Will include the correct legal name and charitable registration number in your documents. The legal name for the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall is:

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION OF OTTAWA-CORNWALL Charitable Registration # 128967353 RR0001

Your parish office is able provide you with the legal name for your own parish. However, most Archdiocesan parishes and programs can be designated in your Will as:

The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of OTTAWA-CORNWALL, for the benefit of [ Specific Parish, Cemetery, Ministry or Program ] in [ Town / City ].

You may also consider the following clauses in your Will:

For your parish:

“To pay to (Legal Name of Parish) Roman Catholic Parish for its own use absolutely, the sum of (amount) dollars. I declare that the receipt of the person professing to be the Pastor or Parochial Administrator of the parish shall be sufficient discharge to my Trustee who need not see to the application thereof. I further direct that if the (Name of Parish) does not exist at the time of my death, this bequest shall be paid to the Parish’s successor, and if no such successor exists, then to an institution with similar objectives and goals.”

Making a Declaration

Please email dev@ottawacornwall.ca to make a declaration that you have included the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall or any for its parishes in your Estate Plans.

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