Johnston Smith is a retired teacher and an active spiritual director in Winnipeg.
38 posts
"“Jesus was not a man for others. He was one with others. There is a world of difference in that. He didn’t seek the rights of lepers. He touched the leper even before he got around to curing him""...
" So as 2019 presents to me one certain and another possible election, my New Year’s resolution is to do the work to know the candidate."...
"I am even advised to limit my daily consumption of black coffee and unsweetened tea. Highly acceptable are refined flours, meats, pastries, white bread and sugars."...
"The Children of Israel yearned for the Messiah. Though they had the Law they did not yet have the Word. They waited in patient expectation."...
St. Ignatius shows us how to deal with "addiction" to the twitterverse....
"In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Prince tells his friend, Horatio, that ultimately all of us become food for worms. The same is true for most people’s kitchen scraps. But how much more satisfying it is to make them into food for tomatoes and roses!"...
"For the first time in its history, the Archdiocese of Winnipeg is conducting a Synod. Archbishop Richard Gagnon began the Synod on Pentecost 2016 and announced his intention to close it on Pentecost 2018."...
". . . a group of ladies at St. Ignatius Parish in Winnipeg, . . .work to provide unique quilts which are then given to longer-term patients at the Winnipeg Children’s Hospital."...
"What do Robert E. Lee, John A. Macdonald, Edward Cornwallis and Jeffrey Amherst have in common? Stay with me and you’ll find out."...
