Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda

Stella Maris is located on the Duke of Clarence Road in St. George

   Pastor: Father Harry Reitzel, CR

   Telephone #:297-0512 E-mail: stellamaris@northrock.bm

   Sunday Mass: 9:00 AM

   Saturday Evening: 5:00 PM

   Daily: Monday through Friday 9AM

   Baptisms: By appointment

   Confessions: Before or after daily Mass or by appointment

Father Harry was his mother's twelfth born child. After a happy childhood, he entered the CR Novitiate on June 6, 1956. He took his  First Vows in the Congregation of the Resurrection on Sept. 8, 1957.  (50 years ago). Father Harry was ordained on May 29, 1965.  After teaching in High Schools from 1965 to 1975,  Father Harry was then assigned to different parishes (Kitchener, Brantford, and Hamilton in Hamilton, Ontario Diocese).  From 1989 until he came to Bermuda in 2003, Father Harry was Pastor of three country parishes in  the London, Ontario Diocese.

The town of St. George had been a center for Catholic worship since 1849 with the chaplain of the armed forces ministering to the needs of the Catholics in the area.  However, it would take almost another hundred years before construction of a Catholic Church in St. George would begin.  On the first Sunday in February, 1948 Archbishop McNally blessed the Church and dedicated it to the Blessed Mother under the title, Stella Maris - that is, Star of the Sea.  In the holy year of 2000 Bishop Robert J. Kurtz, CR proclaimed Stella Maris Church as the Marian center of the diocese.