Daily LifeMay 13, 2022A Sudden Change of Life (2)
"I assume you have your own favorite ways of having your spirits lifted. Feel free to share your own practices."
Daily LifeMay 12, 2022A Sudden Change of Life (1)
"Asking for help, Mackesy writes, is not giving up but refusing to give up."
Daily LifeMay 11, 2022What Really Matters? Consolation is the Answer to Moving Forward.
Michael Ignatieff tells us why consolation is the answer to what really matters..
Daily LifeMay 08, 2022Mothers’ Day aand the World Day of Prayer for Vocations – – 4thth Sunday of Easter
"One of the drawbacks to having a day dedicated to mothers is that we too often focus on them on that single day and take them for granted for the rest of the year."
Daily LifeMay 07, 2022A WORLD TRANSFORMED DURING THE LIFETIME OF IGNATIUS LOYOLA
Placing Ignatius in the perspective of his times.
Daily LifeMay 05, 2022Into the Garden (2): A Hand atThe Window
What have we learned from history and how will future generations look on what we have done.
Daily LifeMay 04, 2022Into The Garden (1) Garden Congregation.
"For those strange almost three years that we lived through and that you now call history, Miles, being welcomed into that garden made such a difference for me."
Daily LifeMay 02, 2022Charity, Inspired
". the essay is written in keeping with Pope Francis' call to each of us to exercise charity with joy, and embodies the message of service to others which bears immediate relevance to this Lenten/Easter season."
Daily LifeApril 26, 2022A Jesuit Brother’s loving journey into Catholic Spirituality.(4): Envisioning a better, (more loving) world.
"So instead of the impossibility of this vision, I speak of how some of its dynamics are already at work in all of us, and I celebrate the possibility that I can integrate it even more fully in my love, in my life, with the help of God's guidance.:
Daily LifeApril 25, 2022Mel’s Diner
But there’s something else outstanding about Mel’s Diner: It has a shrine to Our Lady---in the entrance hall! You can’t miss it. And a bevy of statues and paintings of saints, the Infant of Prague and the Sacred Heart, adorn the walls of the foyer."
Daily LifeApril 20, 2022Sticks and Stones
What does the phrase "Sticks and Stones can break my bones etc"mean to a cild?
Daily LifeApril 06, 2022Zephania
Perhaps mum’s biggest fear was the same one I grapple with; the fear that the loneliness that lurks in even the most spirited moments will never depart.
Daily LifeApril 05, 2022Be Kind
"Ignatius advised spiritual directors that sometimes it’s necessary in working with a directee that we might not agree with, to give them the benefit of the doubt."
Daily LifeApril 03, 2022Straining Forward :Fifth Sunday of Lent
"P:ul says, Straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God.P
Daily LifeApril 01, 2022A Brief Lenten Reflection on Things
"With our Baptism we begin to live Jesus’ divine life but somehow ‘the flesh’ is so powerful in our lives that keeping a balance between the spiritual and material things is a formidable task. "
Daily LifeMarch 31, 2022Catholic Philosophy: Does It Automatically Lead to A Reactionary, Conservative Public Square?
"As Catholics, we are in an interesting bind: our faith calls us to lead a communal life, but our society and our civic culture tells us to lead an individual life, a life that is about me"
Daily LifeMarch 30, 2022Travel “up the Coast” of James Bay and Hudson’s Bay
"So we in Hearst-Moosonee confidently entrust to Mary’s maternal intercession the Cree and Ojibway Christians of our diocese along with our ongoing efforts at healing and reconciliation."
Daily LifeMarch 29, 2022Empowering Women in Tea Gardens
". . . empowered by sharing of information and resources, they have made great strides in organizing and civic engagement, financial management and navigating government offices.
Daily LifeMarch 24, 2022The Occupation of Ottawa and the Capitulation of State Authority
But even in this light, it is difficult to defend the police’s inaction when the Ottawa Police Service ostensibly abdicated its duty to defend the citizens of Ottawa, namely the citizens of Centretown, the Market, Lowertown, and Sandy Hill."
Daily LifeMarch 23, 2022Move Over Job, We’re Suffering too!
"The greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no-one….” (Mother Theresa)
Daily LifeMarch 19, 2022St. Joseph – Patron Saint of Canada
"Faithfulness and integrity come in many sizes and shapes. As we celebrate the life of a husband and foster father who remained faithful, let’s ponder the illustrations of faithful devotion we see all around us."
Daily LifeMarch 15, 2022The Deaf and Church Teaching
Pope John Paul II said of deaf ministry. “In this field it can certainly never be claimed that enough has been done…it must in fact be considered one of the important aspects of that ‘preferential option for the poor’ which is so characteristic of the gospel mission.”
Daily LifeMarch 14, 2022Lent at the Hospice
Bad news, good news -it all arrives at its own pace - no hurry..
Daily LifeMarch 11, 2022Just a Closer Walk With Me
"Working at my desk gets punctuated with forays into the church or the school. The result is increased energy, appetite, spirit. "
Daily LifeMarch 09, 2022King David and Me
We pray to be able to look on one another, on our communities, and our world with compassion!.
Daily LifeMarch 08, 2022A Modest Molehill of Four Poems
Four new poems from the poet on our daily lives.
Daily LifeMarch 05, 2022The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
"In his book, Prayer-Finding the Heart’s True Home, Richard Foster writes about finding holiness . . . “If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find him at all.”
Daily LifeFebruary 27, 2022What’s in my Heart ?- 8th Sunday in 0rdinary Times
"The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so speech discloses the bent of a person’s heart. "
Daily LifeFebruary 21, 2022Predictable Unpredictability
"The pattern for the rest of the 2020s is not the familiar routine of the pre-covid years, but the turmoil and bewilderment of the pandemic era. "
Daily LifeFebruary 20, 2022Saul, David and Revenge – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Times
"The words of Jesus in the Gospel today encourage mercy and forgiveness. David showed those qualities to a man – Saul – who wanted him dead. It is so tempting at times to take revenge on someone who rubs us the wrong way"
Daily LifeFebruary 18, 2022Finding Consolation at the Foot of His Bed
"Together, we were able to share our gifts and prayers with him. And we both knew too, we could never have managed all this if we had not been comforted by the presence of the Lord, and for me, personally, an understanding, a mere glimmer, of what Our Lady had experienced as she too, stood at the
Daily LifeFebruary 17, 2022Quod Licet Jovi Non Licet Bovi
"There is no English expression (at least none that I know) which quite captures the ironic wit of the Latin proverb. "
Daily LifeFebruary 16, 2022A Brief Visit- It’s not happening at the Zoo?
"Homeward bound, I decide I’ll wait for a bit of a thaw before a next visit!!"
Daily LifeFebruary 14, 2022Prayer Sharing
"You do not have to pray awe, wonder, reverence, praise and thanksgiving. Your walk in nature is awe, wonder, reverence, praise and thanksgiving. "
Daily LifeFebruary 13, 2022A Tree Planted by Water – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Times
"What about our trust in God? Does God reject us, or think that we are irredeemable? Of course not!"
Daily LifeFebruary 12, 2022Welcome To My Neighbourhood
"When I pray for them critical judgement ceases, gratitude to God increases, and fear is dispelled."
Daily LifeFebruary 11, 2022The Silence and Thunder of Prayer
" . . people are . . looking for answers in this world gripped by panic, irrationality and fear. Are there any answers to be found? "
Daily LifeFebruary 10, 2022The Great Winnipeg Blizzard of 1966 and St. Paul’s High School
"Mountains there were indeed, with snowdrifts as high as the roof of the school, and parked cars on every street buried completely under snow. Father Barry Connolly started shovelling snow from a second storey window in order to get out."
Daily LifeFebruary 08, 2022Hardships and Miracles
" there will continue to be hardships but they will be enveloped by miracles."
Daily LifeFebruary 07, 2022New Years’s Resolution – Same Old Crap
The poet's thoughts on those pesky resolutions.we might have made.
Daily LifeFebruary 06, 2022“Here I am, send me”, even with my flaws! – 5th Sunday
"I have yet to meet a perfect person, in leadership or any walk of life. It doesn’t matter whether we use the language of sin or crime or petty imperfections."
Daily LifeFebruary 02, 2022Presentation of the Lord – Candlemas
""Let's take a minute or two to ponder how we are experiencing the epiphany of the Lord."
Daily LifeFebruary 01, 2022After Christmas
The season that is Christmas is past. What fears present themselves?
Daily LifeJanuary 31, 2022An End of Year 2021 Adventure
"Inside, a young women greeted me warmly, providing me a fresh new mask, with specific instructions to Admittance. Fogged glasses meant losing my way on the first floor; a gracious workman finally guided me to the admitting desk:"
Daily LifeJanuary 30, 2022Falling in Love – 4th Sunday
"What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything."
Daily LifeJanuary 29, 2022Synodal Listening is Like…
"Listening is a corollary of respect and equal human dignity. Everyone can relate to this, no matter what they experienced in childhood and as adults"
Daily LifeJanuary 25, 2022A Conversation on Ecolog ical Conversion – December 22, 2021
Presented to All those in Formation in the US Midwest Jesuit Province on December 2nd, 2021
- Daily LifeJanuary 24, 2022
The never-ending Pandemic
Will it never end? Hope and faith our best allies.