Getting Ready to Celebrate
"Soon, a joyful feast will mark the reality that heaven came to earth that first Christmas. Until then, some traditional practices can help you get ready to celebrate."...
03
Dec
02
Dec
Advent and the Fear of the Lord: 1st Sunday of Advent
"Advent’s wakefulness is not mere a movement in our hearts. It must make us alert to all that is happening around us. "...
25
Nov
Christ The King
"The contemplation on Christ the King is a wonderful exercise which makes abundant use of the imagination in inviting us to pray with our dreams to do great things in the name of God."...
02
Nov
All Saints and All Souls: All Souls 2018
"By commemorating our faithful departed at the daily Mass, we are acknowledging the same thing – that they are present to us, in a new way."...
01
Nov
All Saints and All Souls: All Saints Day 2018
"Whatever their quirks or oddities, it is helpful for us to know that there is a special saint who knows precisely what we struggle with."...
14
Oct
Lasers and Discernment – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
"Many successful women and men show us that our life path doesn’t have to be dull or achieved by just-falling-into-something. Donna Strickland shows us that it starts with our passions and dreams."...
08
Oct
Gratitude takes nothing for granted – Thanksgiving 2018
"We are celebrating Thanksgiving Day. It's a day to focus on gratitude. But it's not the only day for us to live that attitude."...
16
Sep
But who do you say that I am? -24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
"And my decision to remain in the priesthood, with all of its sinfulness and imperfections, is that I witness over and over the good that happens to people who benefit from the ministry of women and men in the church."...
09
Sep
“No one ever steps in the same river twice.” – Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
"Ignatius of Loyola saw interior movements in a person as being at the heart of his discernment techniques. He would not trust stasis."...
03
Sep
Transitions – Labour Day 2018
"Labour Day has been an official holiday in Canada since 1894, though its origins date from before that. Its roots are in the labour union movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. That neat threefold division is laughable in our contemporary culture with the blurring of those divisions."...