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Guidance for Parishes After Lifting of COVID-19 Restrictions
As we move eagerly towards post-pandemic worship, we do so mindful that the same missionary desire that drove us to overcome every...
Diocesan News
Jul 30, 20211 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: What Language Does God Speak?
A curious question indeed. But it is one that we all ask even when we do not realize it. In chapter 6 of John’s Gospel we hear the story...
Fr. John Jennings
Jul 30, 20212 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: Standing with Gratitude in a World of Wonders and Miracles
One of the remarkable aspects of our Covid-19 experience has been the appearance of vaccines to respond to the virus. Normally such...
Fr. John Jennings
Jul 23, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories - Faith: Prayer, Relationship and Action
Wearing a mask, maintaining self-distancing, avoiding crowds – these are all part of our lives over the past year and a half. They are...
Fr. John Jennings
Jul 19, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: Repent and See things in a Whole New Light
The Fundy Trail Parkway is a wonderful experience. It runs from St. Martin’s NB along the coast of the Bay of Fundy towards the Sussex...
Fr. John Jennings
Jul 9, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: Transforming the Familiar, New Birth Among Us
“Familiarity breeds contempt.” Did you ever notice how we take so much for granted? Whether it is places, routines, or persons, the...
Fr. John Jennings
Jul 2, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: Touching the Garment – God’s Healing Love
Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. She had endured much..., and she was no better. She had...
Fr. John Jennings
Jun 25, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories - Storms in Faith: Doubts and Questions
Over the course of a lifetime we all find ourselves facing challenges. They often make demands on us and are marked by uncertainty....
Fr. John Jennings
Jun 18, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: Living with Our Past – Journeying to Our Future
Most often, the greatest wounds are those that hurt our relationships - with family, with friends and with colleagues. The primary wounds...
Fr. John Jennings
Jun 11, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories - Sacrifice with Hope: Body and Blood of Christ
It is truly amazing to see the sacrifices parents make for their children. They set aside their own wills for the sake of these children....
Fr. John Jennings
Jun 4, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories - Trinity: Mystery in Our Life
Context matters. Awareness of the bigger, fuller picture helps us to understand what we are looking at in the moment. In living with...
Fr. John Jennings
May 28, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories - We are Church: Spirit and Gifts
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...
Fr. John Jennings
May 21, 20212 min read
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Our Sacred Stories Ascension: A Story of Leaving Yet Remaining
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...
Fr. John Jennings
May 14, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: God’s Plan of Love for All Humanity
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...
Fr. John Jennings
May 7, 20212 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: Living as Disciples and Friends
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...
Fr. John Jennings
Apr 30, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: An Easter People in the Midst of the World of Creation
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...
Fr. John Jennings
Apr 23, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: Encountering Jesus in the Breaking of the Bread
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...
Fr. John Jennings
Apr 16, 20212 min read
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Our Sacred Stories: Easter People – Community of Hope & New Life
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...
Fr. John Jennings
Apr 9, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories - Holy Week: A Pilgrimage through Death to Life, Darkness to Light
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...
Fr. John Jennings
Mar 26, 20213 min read
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Our Sacred Stories WE BELIEVE: What is our creed? What is in our hearts?
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...
Fr. John Jennings
Mar 19, 20212 min read
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