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
Saint of Molokai
"“I am hungry for the work!” she said. “It would be my greatest delight to minister to the abandoned souls.” "...
06
Jul
Pope John XXIII
"At the moment of his departure, however, “a silence fell on the crowd.” It was the “silence of sorrow” states Dr. Zsott Aradi, in his biography, Pope John XXIII: An Authorative Biography. The soldiers didn’t want him to leave!"...
01
Jul
Canada Day 2021
"Are national holidays times for celebration and fireworks and raucous parties? Or, are they occasions for serious reflection on who we are as a people? Probably a bit of both. ...
28
Jun
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Jun
Follow your Heart and Find Love
" When you have freed yourself from the dogma and conditioning of society, where will you go? To those things you love."...
23
Jun
John Cassian, the Spiritual Life and Covid
"Cassian says that the best way out of acedia is to reverse all the tendencies that come from the thought. This requires knowing ourselves and our tendencies. "...
22
Jun
The View from our kitchen window. Clearcutting in Acadian New Brunswick
"We may live in the developed world, but our moral, spiritual and intellectual poverty is immense, and heartbreaking for all those who love life."...
21
Jun
National Indigenous People’s Day and Discovery Day 2021
"I am a Catholic priest. Although I understand the legal reasons for the lack of remorse on the part of the Roman Catholic Church, I do not comprehend the moral reasons. I veer somewhere between sadness and anger."...