A (Partial) Remedy to Feeling Self-Pity duringThe Pandemic
One way to shake free from some of the pandemic self-pity we feel....
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Jul
John Perry, Sj, is doing pastoral ministry at St. Ignatius Parish, Winnipeg and is researching and writing at St. Paul's College..
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Jan
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Aug
Canada Revenue Services, COVID 19 and the Widow’s Two Mites
"Canadian donors were happy to help but only on condition that they receive a tax receipt that they could use in filing their income tax next year with Canada Revenue Services."...
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Mar
On the Experience of Coming Last in Class.
" I hope to face these with humility and good grace in the hope that in my mid-seventies I can still be of some religious service to others especially a community like the deaf. . . "...
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Mar
My Mother The Spy
"So my mother volunteered. She dropped out of university, attended spy school and then joined the student nursing program at a Halifax hospital."...
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Dec
Living One Day at a Time
"The pithy one-liner in Matthew 6.34 “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” reminds me that each day contains an ample burden of evils and suffering, and that there is no need to add to this burden."...
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Oct
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh – An Epic of a Genocide
"The human person is a mysterious combination of good and evil. On the one hand, there is Saint Bernadette, and on the other hand there are the perpetrators of genocide. We need to pay attention to both aspects because if we reflect carefully we can find them also in ourselves. "...
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Aug
Tattoos and Modern Art
" . . . while I myself, like Francis Peters, cannot find God in this form of art, others can and do find that it expresses meaning and value in their lives which they choose to make permanent through the tattoo process."...
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Sep
But does it make any difference?
"But the question of the sceptic remains: does it make any difference? If all of us were making this change and ending our love affair with the car, it would no doubt help with climate change. But this will not happen any time soon."...
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Jun
Life Challenges: Morbid Obesity
"St. Ignatius tells us that on our part “we ought not to seek health, rather than sickness, wealth rather than poverty, honor rather than dishonor….” Within the context of our western culture he could have added “being fat rather than being trim”."...