Covid-19 has exposed our weakness: We fear physical harm more than we fear sin that can separate us from God, eternally.
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
— St.Ambrose
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.
Canada Day
Posted in Featured
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…
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…
Virtual Vigil: Toronto’s St. Michael’s Cathedral
Posted in Covid-19, Death/Resurrection, and Paschal Mystery
Thank you, Lord, today is Resurrection Sunday and truly you have Risen. Glory to your holy Resurrection, O Christ our God. Bizarrely, I celebrated the…
Why Are You Weeping?
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Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there,…
Pope John Paul II asked Cardinal Ratzinger in March 2005 to prepare the Way of The Cross meditations for Good Friday. Less than a month later Cardinal Ratzinger would be elected to the Chair of Peter. Here are those mediations along with John Paul II’s writing on the meaning of Suffering.
In today’s Gospel, the Jews are set to stone Jesus for claiming to be God, “You, a man, are making yourself God.” (John 10:33). Jesus…
As I walked the frozen south shore of Bark Lake on the Madawaska River today, as I do every late spring, the beautiful shoreline once…
