SeasonsSeptember 22, 2021Beginning of Fall
"Fall includes the possibility of new beginnings, the chance to start over. But this season has often been associated with melancholia. The endless opportunities of summer are gone and winter is on the horizon."
SeasonsJune 27, 2021How desperate are we for Jesus’ healing? – Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus the Healer is the subject of today's blog and of so much more.
SeasonsJune 20, 2021Fathers Day – 2021
"What are the gifts that fathers need today? It’s definitely a more challenging world than I experienced as a child. But fatherhood is strong enough to survive and discover creative ways of offering life."
SeasonsJune 15, 2021An Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart
The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
SeasonsMay 29, 2021My First Communion 1950 and Easter
"The 'real' Presence has been always central to my Faith. Perhaps it is no wonder that in my elder years I have come to associate my First Communion experience with the celebration of its institution on the Holy Thursday during the Easter Triduum."
SeasonsMay 23, 2021Pentecost 2021
"For the wise person, the wonders of nature, historical events, and the valleys and mountains of our lives take on deeper meaning."
SeasonsMay 13, 2021A Burning Question
"Peter’s weaknesses and failings were obliterated in the fire of God’s love. If he felt the shame of his betrayal of Jesus, it was washed away with mercy and forgiveness."
SeasonsMay 01, 2021Thanks Be To God
Thoughts about the late Australian autumn. "Thankfully, as I am growing older, I am learning, finally, that the seasons of our lives, so similar to those of nature, do not always follow in the same order. "
SeasonsApril 30, 2021Springing into New Life
"There seems to be a luscious harmony in this season that is preparing us for the oncoming celebration of the great feast of Pentecost."
SeasonsApril 25, 2021The Good Shepherd – 4th Sunday of Easter
"Pope Francis has famously stated that priests and bishops and others involved in pastoral ministry should have the smell of the sheep. In other words, that we should live and act as though we have been engaged with the stuff of life, that we are not immune to the mess of our world. The immunity can
SeasonsApril 23, 2021Spring – A Season for Hope and New Beginnings
"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring!’"
SeasonsApril 18, 2021The Gift of Freedom – The 3rd Sunday of Easter
"The Resurrection is effective, in that it makes a difference in someone’s life. Has it made a difference in your life? Where do you see the Lord? "
SeasonsApril 11, 2021Divine Mercy Sunday – 2nd Sunday of Easter
"I’ve been struck by how often recent popes have spoken about being not afraid or anxious. We also know that the Gospels include many words from Jesus about being set free from anxiety, fears and worries."
SeasonsApril 06, 2021Easter with Ecclesiastes
Thoughts on an Easter morning inspired by Ecclesiastes.
- SeasonsApril 04, 2021
An Easter Double Feature – Prose by Philip Shano, SJ and Poetry by Greg Kennedy, SJ
Inspired by the writing in Eclsiatis, the poet has a different take on Easter
SeasonsApril 03, 2021Holy Saturday 2021 – A Great Silence on Earth
"The Church abstains from the Sacrifice of the Mass, with the sacred table left bare, until after the solemn Vigil … when the time comes for paschal joys, the abundance of which overflows to occupy fifty days.”
SeasonsApril 02, 2021The Gift of Silent Presence – Good Friday 2021
"We are invited today to a simple and sincere presence to Christ on the cross."
SeasonsApril 01, 2021Holy Thursday and Humility
" Let's take time at this evening's Mass of the Lord's Supper to consider the humility of Jesus and the example he is setting us. "
SeasonsMarch 31, 2021Entering The Triduum 2021
Today a preview of that last supper marking the triduum that is to come.
SeasonsMarch 30, 2021Lent Webinar Series: The Resurrection: Belief vs Experience
Scott Lewis, SJ, who teaches New Testament at Regis College in Toronto, recently presented the webinar series New Interpretations of the Holy Week Stories.
SeasonsMarch 28, 2021Palm Sunday – The Doorway to a Sacred Journey
"The experience depends on what has happened to me and to the world around me since we last entered into these mysteries."
SeasonsMarch 27, 2021Lent Webinar Series: Did Jesus Come to Die on the Cross?
Scott Lewis, SJ, who teaches New Testament at Regis College in Toronto, recently presented the webinar series New Interpretations of the Holy Week Stories.
SeasonsMarch 24, 2021My Lenten Reading 2021 – “Let Us Dream”
"Let us Dream is intensely personal and challenging. It is perfect Lenten reading as it invites us to look inward at ourselves, and outward to the world in which we live."
SeasonsMarch 22, 2021“The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone” ( Psalm 118:22 (Easter Sunday)
"The people in Honduras, the children in Nepal and the thousands of people that you generously support have names and faces and personal histories of joys and sorrows. They work with courage for the good of their communities, even in the midst of their own suffering."
SeasonsMarch 21, 2021Fifth Sunday in Lent – A Discerning Heart
"“We have an obligation to ensure that every person lives with dignity and has sufficient opportunities for his or her integral development.”"
SeasonsMarch 18, 2021Lent Webinar Series: How Not to Read the Bible
Scott Lewis, SJ, who teaches New Testament at Regis College in Toronto, recently presented the webinar series New Interpretations of the Holy Week Stories. He examined the Holy Week texts in light of recent theological trends and questions. During the first webinar “How Not to Read the Bible&#
SeasonsMarch 14, 2021Fourth Sunday in Lent: By the Rivers of Babylon
"Our communal worship allows us to articulate the fear, grief, disbelief and anger that we experience."
- SeasonsMarch 13, 2021
Lent 2021 aka COVID 19 Lockdown
"Jesus is on that path with us, just as he was on the path with the two disciples. Hopefully, at the end of our path, our Lenten journey, we will realize that that Jesus has been with us all along."
SeasonsMarch 07, 2021Third Sunday n Lent – The Anger of Jesus
"Jesus was fully human and fully divine. His human nature was manifest in a range of emotions, including anger at what bothered him. The scene we have today is not the only occasion on which he showed anger."
SeasonsMarch 03, 2021Come Follow Me
"I take the hand of Peter as my traveling companion on this Lenten journey. He literally and figuratively walked the road that Jesus did."
SeasonsMarch 02, 2021Lent – Then and Now
"Lent becomes the key opportunity to become more deeply aware of the love of God and the needs to share, to save the planet, to understand suffering, to reach out to the outcast."
SeasonsMarch 01, 2021Lent: 2021
"Jesus encourages us to fast but to do so as a prayer not as a way to impress others as to how “holy” we are. "
SeasonsFebruary 28, 2021How Free Am I? – Second Sunday of Lent
"This is essential reading for anyone who has ever felt different or other, or for parents who have struggled with raising a child who has fallen far from the family tree."
SeasonsFebruary 27, 2021Give Me a Drink
What is the message brought to us today by the woman at the well?
SeasonsFebruary 26, 2021Lent: Our Spiritual Journey to The Cross
"When we find ourselves confronted with our own weaknesses, we need to remember that God is calling us to be patient and to see ourselves as he does, with unconditional love."
SeasonsFebruary 21, 2021God’s Faithfulness – First Sunday of Lent
"For as long as I can remember, I have associated the appearance of the sliver of the new moon with God’s faithfulness. "
SeasonsFebruary 19, 2021Borrowed Ashes Lent
The ashes from the fire of the burning cross take us back to where we left.
SeasonsFebruary 18, 2021LENT IS THE CALL TO LIVE OUR LIVES ANEW
". . . realize that Lent is the time to live our lives more fully, for life is a gift from God that we should embrace to the fullest.
SeasonsFebruary 17, 2021Ash Wednesday 2021
"Given that we will eventually die, it becomes important to ask how we will live."