Saints
"Sometimes we can glorify the people called saints as if they were somehow perfect. None of them was perfect. But their effort to listen to God’s will for them and to do it was ‘heroic’."...
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Nov
Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ, is pastor of St. Ignatius parish in Winnipeg.
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Oct
“Someone told me it’s all happening at the Zoo. I do believe it. I do believe it’s true.”
"“That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.” George R.R. Martin"...
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Oct
A Short Train Trip
"Passenger trains always whistling by our country road railway crossing bringing passengers, mail, packages from Simpson Sears or Eaton’s or who knows where, to our two grain elevator town, Davin. . . "...
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Spring Canticle
A spring day at the English Garden in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, inspired this canticle from the poet/...
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Jun
THE CONSERVATORY
"Today I revisited the Conservatory. Despite the empty car lot, I parked in its driveway. I did not leave the car. A bleak place. The interior dark. Trapped tall trees peered out the top windows at the sunny exterior on this bright Easter day." ...
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Mar
Annunciation, March 25, 2018
On this vigil of the Feast of the Annunciation, some thoughts for consideration....
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Mar
Someone told me it’s all happening at the Zoo. I do believe it. I do believe it’s true.” – Part 3
In today's Poetry Tuesday we visit the Winnipeg zoo to see two red panda cubs....
22
Jan
Putting Away Christmas
It has been almost a month since Christmas day. Yet memories of Christmas past remain offering food for thought....
18
Jan
Our Broken World
"God our ever present loving Father wants us to be mentors of reconciliation to others, to be their ‘elders’ who show by example and word how to live and be God’s children."...