It’s a desert out there. Everyone’s avoiding each other like the plague. What happens in a desert? The Old Boy prowls for sure, but it’s in the desert that the…
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I'm a retired Catholic teacher living in Combermere, Ontario. Through prayer and the Eucharist, I encounter the Redeemer. I love to pray, play, and work. Hockey and paddling kayaks are my passions. Need more? See Authors.
John Paul II entered my life in 1978. I knew nothing about him when he served as Cardinal Wojtyla. Although I was born and baptized in British Guiana, receiving my first Holy…
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We’ve been deprived of the medicine of immortality for over two months now, faced locked church doors unable to visit our Lord in the tabernacle, and have had the great silence of…
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This being the feast of St Matthias allows us to see just how important the 12 apostles were to Christ. They’re the Church’s foundation and any builder knows a foundation has to…
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The tranquil murmuring sea yearning for freedom grows angry at land’s caging arms. Envious of wind moving where it wills calls to wind who gently tries to calm it, “Wind, give…
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I hope you’ve entered the great mystery of the Catholic Bishops’ suspending public gatherings at Mass and closing churches because of Covid-19. Join me here. The latest update is May 9, 2020…
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Immaculate Mother embrace my heart so weak in its longing gaze on you my radiant horizon carrying my sorrow my failures and tears into your Immaculate heart. Hold me,…
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Christ’s Resurrection and his subsequent appearances are the revolutionary events in human history. The Apostles, Resurrection witnesses, boldly set out to conquer the world, proclaiming the Truth of Christ’s own repeated proclamation…
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It’s one of the most playful and serious encounters Jesus had in the Gospels. Cleopas and another of the Lord’s disciples were heading the wrong way out of Jerusalem along the Emmaus…
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