THE AUGUSTINIAN MONASTERY
OUR LADY OF GRACE SHRINE
MARYLAKE RETREAT CENTRE
ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO
P.O. Box 550
13760 Keele St., King City
Ontario, Canada, L7B-1A7
(opposite the western end of Bloomington Rd.)
DIRECTIONS
From the East: Take Highway 404 northbound to Bloomington Rd. Go westbound on Bloomington until you reach Keele St. At this point there is an entrance to Marylake straight ahead.
From the West: Take Highway 400 northbound to the King Road. Go east on King Rd until you reach Keele St. turn left and go north on Keele St for about 2 kms. You will see the Marylake gate on the lefthand side of the road.
Local Map
Regional Map
(905) 833-5368
Fax (905) 833-5569
Contact:
Father Eugene Tramble O.S.A.
Prior, Marylake Monastery
Email: eugenetramble@aol.com
Masses
Monday to Friday at 08:00am
Saturday and Sunday at 09:00am
Other Services
Reconciliation: any time
The KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
(Sacred Heart King City Council)
presents the
Marylake Monastery Pipe Organ Restoration Project
Click here (or here) for more details
Welcome to this web site about the Marylake Shrine in King City, Ontario, Canada. Marylake is home to the Augustinian Monastery, (Order of St. Augustine, Province of St. Joseph).
The information you find here about Marylake has been reproduced from pamphlets that can be obtained at the monastery. I hope you find it informative and I appreciate your comments and suggestions that can make this site a better one.
Thank you so much,
Sebastiano G. (John) Tantalo - Webmaster
I've dedicated these Marylake web pages under the protection and intercession of St. Augustine who composed this beautiful prayer to the Holy Spirit.
PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit,
That I my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit,
That my work, too, may be holy.
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit,
That I love but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit,
To defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit,
That I always may be holy.
Amen. (St. Augustine)
Originally the farm and summer home of Sir Henry Pellatt. During the depression in the thirties the Basilian Fathers established an agricultural school on the property. In 1942, James Cardinal McGuigan, the Archbishop of Toronto, invited the Augustinians to establish a shrine and to offer a program of weekend retreats for lay people. The title Our Lady of Grace comes from an Augustinian shrine in Lisbon, Portugal. The retreat program, initiated in 1943, so prospered that it was necessary to double the facilities for retreatants by adding to the red brick "farmer's house" in the early fifties. In order to house the steadily growing religious community of Augustinians and to provide pilgrims with a place of worship, a new monastery and shrine church were built in the sixties. In 1964, Cardinal McGuigan laid the cornerstone for the new shrine building and it was dedicated in 1978 by Cardinal Carter.
Image of Augustinian Coat of Arms seen below
designed by
DANIEL LA GAMBA
