This coming Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. We begin the Lenten season once more. Lent is all about conversion. It can be about the...

Sometimes we struggle with what it means to be holy. It often appears to be something “other worldly” or at least removed from the world...

Life can be pretty complicated, even confusing. It is hard to see where we fit or how we make sense of it all. Sometimes we hope to...

Most of my adult life, some 46 years has been spent teaching. Like most teachers, I willingIy admit that I learned more than my students...

We will return to in person Mass this weekend. The following COVID protocols will be in place. We encourage parishioners to continue to...

In 2007, Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson published a wonderful book entitles Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of...

The writer of the Gospel of Luke is a visionary. He presents the story of Jesus the Christ as an expression of the Spirit of God...

In the Gospel of John (2:1-11) we hear the story of what John calls the first of Jesus` signs. It takes place at a wedding in Cana. The...

As the province moves into the Level 3 COVID-19 Winter plan at 11:56 pm on January 14th, no in-person Masses are permitted. Our Lady of...

Recently I had the honour of gathering at the parish church with several families and welcoming into the Christian community a new member....

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone. Snow had fallen, snow on snow on snow. In the...

Our English word, Gospel comes from the Anglo-Saxon, god-spell or glad tidings. These glad tidings or good news or gospel are the story...

Preparing the Way of the Lord Almost 500 years ago, an English poet, John Donne wrote a poem that began with these words: No [person] is...

A rainy day and a walk in the park. Streams and rivulets of water wind their way down the sides of the hill through culverts and under...

Sometimes to know where we are, we have to know where we came from. The message and the mission of Jesus is to proclaim the Kingdom, the...

Change is a challenge. It is also universally necessary. Whether we talk personally or communally, we constantly face changes in our...

The Gospels tell many Jesus-stories. They were part of the faith memories of Jesus shared by the earliest Christian communities. In...

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints. These words and what they express are part of the...

Mark’s Gospel tells a wonderful story of the healing and conversion of Bartimaeus, a blind beggar (Mk.10:46-52). As much as it is one of...