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Like a farmer tending a sound tree, untouched by axe or fire because of its fruit, I want not only to serve you in the body, good people that you are, but also to...

Ignatius and his Band of Brothers

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) whom we celebrate on this last day of July, in some ways belongs more to the early days of the desert Fathers, or the mediaeval 'fools for Christ', than...

Walking the Opeongo Line with Saint Ann

A brief note from the now-shuttered, yet still beautifully maintained, parish of Saint Joseph's, on the Opeongo Line, as we, about 90 or so pilgrims, make our way from Our Lady of Fatima in...

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline. (G.K. Chesterton)

For nothing so much wins love as the knowledge that one’s lover desires most of all to be himself loved. (Saint John Chrysostom, +407)

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  (Edmund Hilary, born July 20, 1919)

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at day-break to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; the world had...

You are young, and the Pope is old...But the Pope still fully identifies with your hopes and aspirations. Although I have lived through much darkness, under harsh totalitarian regimes, I have seen enough evidence...

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