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What Beatrix Potter Tells Us of a Life Well Lived
I read a biography about Beatrix Potter, and I was amazed at how much I learned about virtue from her life. She was an...
Saint François de Laval and the (Re)Conversion of Canada
'Tis difficult to believe that Quebec was once a a bastion of the Faith, incarnating in an almost unique way in the historical annals...
Safe at Home with Grace
Although I have been a lifelong Catholic Christian, grace has always been to me a rather nebulous term. I may have recited its definition...
Fifth Sunday of Easter: Offering Diakonia
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, Godâs own people; in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts...
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Going West…
There's the old saying about âgoing westâ that appeals to the soul of the wanderer. Why this should be, I wonder, as I myself...
Blessed Marie-Leonie Paradis
There is a trio of Canadian Saints in this week: Saint Marie of the Incarnation on the last day of April; Saint Francois de...
Philip the Questioner and James’ Letter: Apostles and Martyrs
Philip and James, Apostles, have been celebrated together on this third day in May since the revision of the calendar in 1969. They were...
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Breaking a 26 Mile Barrier
Well, some thought it couldn't be done, but Sabastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha broke the two-hour barrier of the marathon, a 26 mile race of grit and endurance:
Kenyaâs Sabastian Sawe becomes FIRST person EVER to run a marathon UNDER 2 HOURS with London Marathon time 1:59:30 Yomif Kejelcha from...
Prima Vera Verily Arriving
Spring is slowly, but I hope surely, arriving here where I live, which happens to be near a lake called Kamaniskeg (an Indigenous name meaning 'shining water). It doesn't' shine much during the winter, and here is the lake as it thawed last week, the ice sublimating into eerie...
Chasing Rubber Balls Seems to Cost a Lot
$624 million. That's the apparent tally for hosting the portion of the World Cup games to be held in Vancouver this summer - seven matches, which comes to just under $90 million per game.
We've written before about the excesses of professional sports, the bloated salaries, the insane hype and...
Easter
Fifth Sunday of Easter: Offering Diakonia
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, Godâs own people; in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts...
Fourth Sunday and Obeying the Good Shepherd
âMy sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perishâ (Jn. 10:27).
In...
Third Sunday of Easter: Growing in Love of the Lord
Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you (Jn. 21:17). ⧟
The Easter Season is a privileged time of liturgical catechesis or instruction...
Divine Mercy Sunday – An Echo of Every Mass
Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believeââŠÂ âMy Lord and my God!â (Jn. 20:18)).
Today is Divine...
In the Glorious Light of Easter, Alleluia!
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden...
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A Pilgrimage from Vienna to Rome
I decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome, prompted by the Jubilee year, and walking through the Holy Doors. But I couldnât just show up in Rome, so to make a pilgrimage of it.
Apologetics 101
Apologetics is the art of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse, making reference to both faith and reason as appropriate, in light of Saint Peterâs admonition to âAlways be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverenceâ (1 Peter 3:15).
