We’re tired of this virus. But is it really the virus or something deeper?
” To pray the Rosary is to hand over our burdens to the merciful hearts of Christ and His Mother.”
–St.John Paul II
Author: Rod Minns
A retired Catholic teacher with a freelance writing stint, I loved helping students make their written words sing. I love playing the best game on earth, hockey, or paddling kayaks on a river, lake, or ocean. My seven kids range from 21 to 38 years old.
You come to me Jesus truly You in this Bread dissolving into my body. your Flesh and Blood dissolving into who I am heavily burdened…
The Triumph Of The Cross
Posted in Featured
If Jesus has told us and continues to tell us that to be his follower we must take up our cross and follow him then…
Each of my paddling pilgrimages on Georgian Bay since 2007 started at Ste Marie (Martyrs’ Shrine) on the Wye River in Midland, Ontario. A day…
Go To A Remote Place In A Boat
Posted in Featured, and Play and Pray
It’s time to get in a boat and head to a remote place, island, cove, or a secluded little beach. It’s summer in Canada where…
Canada Day
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It’s July 1, that time for Canadian flag flying, fireworks and celebrations marking what many say is Canada’s birthday. While birthday stirs wonderful party imagery…
Covid-19 has exposed our weakness: We fear physical harm more than we fear sin that can separate us from God, eternally.
A Perfect Union of Hearts
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A card with the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus has on the flip side The Miracle Prayer. Here’s how it closes, “I consecrate…
Travelling through time with Covid-19 has been a wild ride on a river of beautiful as well as dangerous rapids. We’ve had some fun with…
It’s a desert out there. Everyone’s avoiding each other like the plague. What happens in this solitary place? The Old Boy prowls for sure,…
Ascension 2020
Posted in Ascension
Waiting in Jerusalem To Be Baptized By the Holy Spirit “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father…
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…
Good News To Close The Easter Season
Posted in Covid-19, and Death/Resurrection
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,…
Fixing The Foundation With Matthias
Posted in Death/Resurrection, and Saints
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…
Week To Week With The Bishops’ Decision
Posted in Covid-19, Death/Resurrection, Eucharist, and Lent 2020
The mystery of the Catholic Bishops’ suspending public gatherings at Mass and closing churches because of Covid-19 has a Corpus Christi conclusion. How providential and…
He Stands On Our Shore Calling
Posted in Covid-19, Death/Resurrection, Featured, and Paschal Mystery
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…
Travellers On The Emmaus Road
Posted in Death/Resurrection, Eucharist, and Paschal Mystery
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…
Mary Magdalene’s Tears
Posted in Death/Resurrection, Featured, and Paschal Mystery
Mary Magdalene’s tears hold the most beautiful place amid all the Resurrection encounters. Tears erupted from the core of who she is, made in the…
