Eulogy for Cecile Delorme – December 4, 2023
Cécile Marie Blanche Delorme was born into a proud French-Canadian family, as snow thawed on the prairie fields of St. Joseph MB, in the Spring of 1935. The timing of…
Eulogy for Patricia Orban – November 23, 2023
In trying to describe something of who Patrica Orban was, and what she meant to us, the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, I am reminded of the film…
From Survival to Solidarity
September 11. Memories of that fateful day when horrific terrorist attacks forever changed the lives of thousands of people reverberate still in global consciousness. The 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan was…
Beginnings and Endings
I have recently been to two Catholic funerals for dear friends and was once again struck by the older theologies that so often underpin such events. We were back in…
Remembering John Robinson
John Robinson, a wise and gentle man, living in Toronto, and serving at the Native Peoples Mission in that city, died on May 26, 2022. I am still grieving his…