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The Taste of Things: Life’s Tensions

Post author:Sandra Stewart
Post published:May 26, 2025
Post category:Personal Growth Reflections
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I was schooled in the chaos of unbridled tension from a very early age. In truth perhaps, we all are. Maybe it is merely a function of being human, or…

How Can You Be at Peace?

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:May 23, 2025
Post category:Scripture Reading
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Reflection for the Sixth Sunday of Easter C Readings: Acts 15: 1-2, 22-29 (RM) or Acts 16: 9-15 (RCL); Psalm 67; Revelation 21: 10-14, 22-23 (RM) or 10, 22-27, 22:…

How Novels Can Entertain and Inform

Post author:Mary McInerney
Post published:May 18, 2025
Post category:Our Times and Culture
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One of my favourite pastimes is reading the novels of Dickens, Jane Austen, and the Brontës, and watching the films that capture the imagination of these novelists. They provide an…

A Commandment: Love Is All You Need

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:May 16, 2025
Post category:Scripture Reading
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A Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Easter C Readings: Acts 14: 21-27 (RM) or Acts 11: 1-18 (RCL); Psalm 145 (RM) or 148 (RCL); Revelation 21: 1-5a (RM) or…

In the Company of Trees

Post author:Catherine Walther
Post published:May 12, 2025
Post category:Nature Reflections
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Catherine Walther is a former nurse and hospital Chaplain who lives in Toronto. Catherine has found great meaning in the writings of Teilhard de Chardin, as well as Creation Spirituality,…

Clothed in Strength, Hope and Love

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:May 9, 2025
Post category:Scripture Reading
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Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Easter C Readings: Acts 13: 14, 43-52 (RM) or 9: 36-43 (RCL); Psalm 100 (RM) or 23 (RCL); Revelation 7: 9, 14b-17 (RM) or…

The Caterpillar: Metamorphosis

Post author:Maria Hien
Post published:May 5, 2025
Post category:Reflections Religious Life
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This reflection is by RNDM Novice Maria Hien, who is doing her novitiate in Vietnam. In this piece, she explores creation for insights about God, and about herself. The beautiful…

Come and Sit With Me!

Post author:Rose Mary Harbinson
Post published:April 28, 2025
Post category:Poverty Reflections Social Justice
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As I gaze at this image of the beautiful bronze statue, which sits outside the showers and Mother of Mercy Clinic in St Peter’s Square, Rome, I see familiar scenes…

The Importance of Doubt

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:April 25, 2025
Post category:Scripture Reading
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Reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter C Readings: Acts 5: 12-16 (RM) or 27-32 (RCL); Psalm 118; Revelation 1: 9-11a, 12-13, 17-19 (RM) or 4-8 (RCL); John 20: 19-31.…

Reliving the Passion Today

Post author:Barb Cameron
Post published:April 22, 2025
Post category:Our Times and Culture Reflections Social Justice
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2000 years ago, a man by the name of Jesus of Nazareth, born in Palestine, was judged, beaten, tortured and condemned to a horrific death. The government, religious leaders and…