July this year saw the 4th annual Canadian Martyrs Camp near Grand Bend, Ontario (west of Toronto). This year record attendance was set, with 37 boys and 30 girls in attendance. As with each year, the busy schedule consisted of the usual camp actives: Daily Mass, Confessions, Catechism and Rosary; canoeing, swimming, archery, games, campfires each evening, and crafts. The Crafts consisted of Rosary Making, Stained Glass, Candle Making (a local apiary owner came for a presentation on bees), Picture Frames and Woodworking for the boys and Painting and Art for the Girls. Fr. Carl Sulzen was Camp Chaplain, and conducted the camp with the assistants of six seminarians from St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary for the Boys Camp and two Oblate Sisters from Toronto for the girls camp. Generous volunteers of counselors and kitchen help from various chapels completed the camp staff. The Catechism was based on the Eight Beatitudes, and the camp was placed under the patronage of the Canadian Martyrs (also referred as the North American Martyrs). Each evening Father Sulzen would explain the life and virtues of one of the Martyrs, and the children's memory was tested on both their knowledge of the Martyrs and of the Beatitudes. Father Sulzen thanks all the volunteers who helped this year, as well as all those who assisted by their prayers and donations. Saints John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues, Gabriel Lalemant, Rene Goupil, Jean de la Lande, Charles Garnier, Anthony Daniel, Noel Chabanel, and Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Pray for us!

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