Daily LifeSeptember 27, 2021How to Find Hope in an Unknown Future
"God created a world in which we experience not only pain and suffering but also love, courage, faith, loyalty, compassion and hope."
Daily LifeSeptember 26, 2021Who is Entitled to Speak the Message of the Lord? – 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
"World Day of Migrants and Refugees. We have posted on this theme many times. Alas! The urgency of the plight of those looking for a safe home intensifies with each new political and ecological crisis.
Daily LifeSeptember 23, 2021What a Piece of Work is Man
"Human beings did not just evolve from random fish into primates with self reflection ability. We are the product of divine intelligence"
Daily LifeSeptember 18, 2021Catholic and Quasi-Catholic Podcasts Worth Listening to
"I like podcasts. They are a good way to distract you when you’re doing the dishes or at the gym or just needing something to entertain you on your drive. The problem is finding the right podcast."
Daily LifeSeptember 16, 2021For The Birds
"“What if we stopped busying ourselves by organizing nature to just exist with each other?” My comrade asked wistfully one morning. John Lennon’s fine song came to mind; “Let it be.”
Daily LifeSeptember 14, 2021A Guaranteed Liveable Income Plan
"A Guaranteed Liveable Income plan would make it possible for more Canadians to get job training, education, participate more fully in their communities and have resources made available to them which would facilitate a more dignified life rather than one which is stigmatized."
Daily LifeSeptember 13, 2021Following Your Moral Compass
"“Fine,” I replied, “be the most ethical atheist you can be.” I think he was trying to “get off the hook thinking only religious folks have to be ethical. Not so, morality and ethics apply to everyone."
Daily LifeSeptember 12, 2021“But who do you say that I am?” –23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
"’ve read numerous pieces in recent years, written by women and men who are asking the question, can I remain in the church, in spite of all that has been exposed?"
Daily LifeSeptember 11, 20219/11 – 20th Anniversary
" . . . we have seen that the real enemy is not a Muslim jihadist with a paper-cutter, on an aircraft, but the world that we have crafted ourselves."
Daily LifeSeptember 10, 2021Confessions of a Millennial, Gay Catholic: The CDF Dubium
:he message that needs to and must stick with us is simple: love one another. If we could manage to work toward fulfilling this commandment, then maybe, just maybe, we might have some hope of a better world."
Daily LifeSeptember 04, 2021Desire
How often do we desire to be someone/something other than what we are?
Daily LifeSeptember 03, 2021Talking With Francky
"When I’m sometimes automatically being judgmental, or nursing old resentments about past hurts, I think “that’s my ego, that’s the other standard.” "
Daily LifeSeptember 01, 2021Not a ‘birder’
"(It was believed the pelican pierced its own breast to feed its young with its blood.)"
Daily LifeAugust 31, 2021The Summer of 2021
"This summer of 2021 has had its share of ups and downs., consolations and desolations, pains and hopes."
Daily LifeAugust 30, 2021My Mother and Old Age
"God has compassion for the “undeserving” as much as the “deserving”. God knows them more than they know themselves. God knows their pain. God suffers with them. God embraces them and invites them in."
Daily LifeAugust 29, 2021Hypocrisy – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
“This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me …” Is there harmony between what I say and what I do?
Daily LifeAugust 28, 2021The Communion of Saints
"For me this came to mean that, since I was one of the Militant, I could pray TO the Triumphant and FOR the Suffering and the other Militant and that we all worked together in a mysterious but very real way."
Daily LifeAugust 26, 2021The Joy of Aging
"Sometimes elderly people can appear more childlike and humble. Not always of course. We can also be short tempered and judgmental."
Daily LifeAugust 24, 2021Refugees fron Lytton and Refugees from Elsewhere
"Our Western governments (including Canada) put up walls (figurative and real ones) to prevent refugees from coming to our countries. Can you imagine the neighbouring towns of Lytton telling those fleeing residents: “Sorry, there’s no room at the inn.”?"
Daily LifeAugust 22, 2021To Whom Can We Go? 21st Sunday in Ordinary Times
"The psalms are filled with beautiful images to describe the power of God in our lives. "
Daily LifeAugust 19, 2021Residential Schools and Righteous Anger
"Is it okay for a good practicing Roman Catholic to be angry about the contentious issue of the residential schools? And how do we express that anger?"
Daily LifeAugust 18, 2021Two Books about Residential Schools
"What I find valuable in these two books is how they listen and observe. Instead of beginning with judgment, they present portraits of the situations and people directly involved . . "
Daily LifeAugust 17, 2021It’s Something Called AGE
We all experience it. Today''s poem explores the "joys" of aging.
Daily LifeAugust 14, 2021Mystery Part III: The Mystery of Friendship
"We have both lived long and very full lives, following our different paths, and no doubt I shall join him at some future date, soon or late."
Daily LifeAugust 11, 2021Snakes and Ladders
"Today we are flooded with painful truths, all of them bad but true, so many truths that cannot be ignored, or forgiven without reconciliation. "
Daily LifeAugust 06, 2021In The Middle of Winnipeg!
"Demolished a couple of years ago, the concrete is gone and the empty ground lot is now fenced in, a garden Mecca for weeds. "
Daily LifeAugust 05, 2021The Real Presence
"Why was I a Catholic priest from the other side of the world given the privilege of shepherding this Buddhist in his passage into the fullness of life? For me it was a Eucharist moment with an echo of the words of Jesus, “This is my body given up for you.”"
Daily LifeAugust 04, 2021Missionary Disciples
"As missionary disciples, we must endeavour to live and act in a way that gives witness to the Gospel itself. And most importantly, we must do this with joy!"
Daily LifeAugust 02, 2021Blessed are the Merciful, for they shall obtain Mercy
Pope Francis said . . it was time to experience the ‘sweet and gentle touch’ of God’s forgiveness and his presence in these difficult times. .’
Daily LifeAugust 01, 2021The August Long Weekend – 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
"As Saint Augustine reminds us, that our deepest hunger and restlessness will never be satisfied, not until we rest in the Lord."
Daily LifeJuly 26, 2021Pater Noster (Slightly decolonized)
How should we remember the giants of the past in the present?
Daily LifeJuly 25, 2021World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
" . . . older people and grandparents also have a mission of evangelization, proclamation and prayer, and of encouraging young people in their faith.”
Daily LifeJuly 23, 2021So Secretly
Looking into the diary of some one you love often brings unwelcome knowledge.
Daily LifeJuly 16, 2021A (Partial) Remedy to Feeling Self-Pity duringThe Pandemic
One way to shake free from some of the pandemic self-pity we feel.
Daily LifeJuly 15, 2021Why Me?
What is the answer - -especially now - to that age old question " . . but why me?"
Daily LifeJuly 08, 2021Saint of Molokai
"“I am hungry for the work!” she said. “It would be my greatest delight to minister to the abandoned souls.” "
Daily LifeJuly 06, 2021Pope 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!"
Daily LifeJuly 01, 2021Canada 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.
Daily LifeJune 28, 2021The Opposite of Love is Fear
The writer looks at ways that the opposite of love is fear.
Daily LifeJune 25, 2021Follow 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."
- Daily LifeJune 23, 2021
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. "
Daily LifeJune 22, 2021The 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."
Daily LifeJune 21, 2021National 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."
Daily LifeJune 12, 2021Humility and Gentleness
The author looks at some of the elements that make up the virtue of humility.
Daily LifeJune 09, 2021After Covid 19
"I have missed going to church on a regular basis, so am really look forward to worshipping in a full church with the choir singing, and receiving the Eucharist joyfully. I won’t be afraid to sneeze or cough with all eyes looking in my direction."
Daily LifeJune 07, 2021Liberation Theology: An Answer in the Darkness to Our Worries?
"Liberation theology along with other philosophies that talk about justice and liberation are the answers to our worries and the problems of our society; they are not the definite or whole answer, no, but they are important."
Daily LifeJune 04, 2021Freedom From and Freedom For .. .
" . . at the center of our faith is a relationship with a person who gives us the grace and strength necessary to overcome all our attachments, and all our un-freedoms. "
Daily LifeJune 03, 2021When Death Comes. . .
"The death of some-one close to us, some-one with whom we have shared most of our lives must yield some of life’s rawest pain."
Daily LifeMay 28, 2021War
The question of why war "always takes incredible place" is brought forward.