The Magic of Beauty
The new season of Spring has arrived in New Zealand and life is singing in all her splendour. It is such a wonderful time to just wander in the beauty…
The new season of Spring has arrived in New Zealand and life is singing in all her splendour. It is such a wonderful time to just wander in the beauty…
Malachi 1:14-2:2, 8-10 (RM) or Micah 3: 5-12 (RCL); Psalm 131; 2 Thessalonians 2:7-9, 13 (RM) or 1 Thessalonians 2: 9-13 (RCL); Matthew 23: 1-12. For All Saints Sunday: Revelation…
Many apostolic congregations of religious women in the West find themselves having conversations about “coming to completion,” that is, about declining membership, a rising median age, and lack of interested…
Exodus 22: 21-27 (RM in Canada) or 20-26 (RM in the U.S.) or Leviticus 19: 1-2, 15-18 (RCL) or Jeremiah 31: 31-34 (Lutheran); Psalm 18 (RM) or 1 (RCL) or…
“Latin is a dead languageThat is plain to see.It killed off the RomansAnd now it’s killing me.”Someone wrote these words in my autograph book when I was in elementary school.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB90zTiahfI&ab_channel=RNDMCanada This 20 minute video depicts October 4 prayer at Cardinal Flahiff’s grave in Winnipeg, on the first day of the Synod in Rome. We gathered in solidarity with all…
From the time I was very young I thought my intellect could save me. If I could “just figure it out” my world would be safer, more predictable, less chaotic,…
A friend of mine thinks that “discipline” is more important than “willingness” in effecting personal and/or communal change. Discipline he says, is what gets my “willingness” into action, onto my…
Isaiah 5: 1-7; Psalm 80; Philippians 4: 6-9 (RM) or 3:4b-14 (RCL); Matthew 21: 33-43 (RM) or 33-46 (RCL). Allegory: an exercise in interpretation that may well leave you wondering,…
This is the story Fr. Stan Fontaine told at the special Eucharistic gathering for Reconciliation at St. Kateri Tekakwitha parish in Winnipeg on October 1, 2023. At that time, two…