Wednesday, December 3, 2025

28th Sunday: Eucharist Means Thanksgiving

(From our archives, for this Thanksgiving Sunday) On this mountain the Lord of Hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food (Is 25:6). Throughout...

Divine Mercy Sunday – An Echo of Every Mass

Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe’
  ‘My Lord and my God!’ (Jn. 20:18)). Today is Divine...

Pray for Canada

It’s getting darker out here! No, your eyes do not deceive you. Nor does the steady drumbeat of depressing news confirming that, since the...

A Pope and Prime Minister Return to the Mission – We Hope

This story and its characters are (mostly) fictitious, and it is (generally) not inspired by true events. But if the events could yet prove...

Saint John of the Cross: A Sound Teacher of True Love

Today, 14 December, we celebrate the feast of a great Spanish mystic, a friend and a co-reformer of the Carmelite religious family, namely Saint...

The Suffering of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

February 9th marks the anniversary of the death of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich in 1824.  An Augustinian nun, she was highly favoured by God...

The Good in Suffering and the Evil of Euthanasia

According to a recent poll, eighty-six percent of Catholics in Canada are in support of allowing Canadians with a grievous and irremediable illness to...

The Paradox of Parables

You have just heard one of the parables of Jesus, quite a complicated one. It accomplishes what a parable is supposed to do: it...

Requiescat in Pace

Pope Francis (1936 - 2025), has died on this Easter Monday morning, after a controversial and often turbulent reign of just over 12 years....

Celebrating Holy Mass in a Way Worthy of Corpus Christi

O Sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of His Passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge...