Context matters. Awareness of the bigger, fuller picture helps us to understand what we are looking at in the moment. In living with...

For more than a year now, our world has faced the challenge of a global pandemic. Covid-19 and its variants has brought a host of threats...

Some 40 years ago I met Jim and Pauline. Jim was with the OPP and Pauline worked in a Catholic school in Barrie. At the time I was on...

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you: abide in my love.... This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved...

Recently I had the honour and pleasure of journeying on a week-long retreat with the Sisters of St. Martha of PEI and their lay...

Even beyond the Feast of Easter, we are an “Easter People” living an incarnational faith in the midst of our world. At the center or core...

Can we live our faith in isolation? Are we able to be believers without a community? There are many who assert that they have a...

We are Easter People. The great sign of our faith is that Jesus is Risen. Every time we gather for Eucharist we share at the Table of the...

This Sunday we enter what we call Holy Week, that sacred season from Passion Sunday to Easter. As we bless the palms and listen to the...

What we believe, our faith expresses who we are. It is, in so many ways, written on our hearts. This is what we hear from the prophet...

“Wash your hands.” How many times have we heard our mothers saying this? It seems it takes a long time for things to sink in for us. Now,...

John’s Gospel tells a story of Jesus visiting the Temple in Jerusalem (John 2:13-25). The Gospel relates the story as a lead into seeing...

Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. There he was transfigured before...

Several years ago a couple of my friends embarked on the pilgrimage walk from southern France, over the Pyrenees to Santiago de...

Isolation is hard. In the midst of the pandemic it has been one of the most difficult challenges. The separation from family and friends,...

The island of Grand Manan NB is situated out in the Bay of Fundy, about 50 kilometers from Black’s Harbour on the mainland. A few years...

One of the striking features of rural Ireland is the network of drystone walls that snake up and down the hillsides and valleys. These...

Ron Rolheiser begins his book Against an Infinite Horizon: The Finger of God in Our Everyday Lives (Rolheiser, 1995) with the words of...

“Where did you first meet?” This is a good question for a couple planning their marriage. It might have been on a blind date or in a pub...

Covid-19, for all its challenges has taught us some lessons. These lessons will hopefully guide us in the days and years ahead. One of...