A lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher, he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the Law? What do you read there?” The lawyer answered, ” You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with…
Faithfully — How It All Began As part of our efforts to revitalize our parishes and the Diocese, we reviewed the publication that we had for the past 20 years—Carillon—and the feedback from the parishes and parishioners. And from that discussion, Faithfully, was born to start a new conversation – one of the experiences of…
Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart To the Sacred Heart of Jesus, I give myself and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, my person and my life, my actions, pains and sufferings, so that I may be unwilling to make use of any part of my being other than to…
COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST Our ancestors ate Manna in the desert yet died: but this (Eucharist) is bread come down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread of heaven will live forever. This is why we come to Sunday mass; well beyond keeping holy the Sabbath, finding answers for life in homilies, connecting with the…
COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST Our faith is summarized by the sign of the cross when we bless ourselves as we say “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”. The Trinity is at the core of our faith, a God of three divine persons, a communion of love….
COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: God the Father has given us the gift of His Holy Spirit in Baptism and Confirmation in order to bless the world. We are daily placed in encounters with hurting souls and searching souls, but we feel insecure as to what we can say or do to make a difference. A…
As summer draws near, we are about to be bombarded by intense liturgical Feasts – Ascension, Visitation, Pentecost, Trinity, Corpus Christi, Sacred Heart… The combination of those intense liturgical celebrations with all of the other, non-liturgical celebrations going on these days, the graduations and the weddings and everything else, can make us feel exhausted and…
COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: What does Christ mean by peace? Not what we usually think: “Not as the world gives do I give it to you.” Christ’s peace is lasting. It is interior peace of heart, which overflows into families, communities, our entire world. · It is the peace that comes from knowing without any…
COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: For thousands of years the People of God longed to see the living face of God. Then the Word became Flesh and dwelt among us. He came to His own and they did not accept him. Today, likewise, God’s face is revealed in our neighbour. We can question why the Jews…
COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: The Fourth Sunday of Easter the liturgy celebrates Jesus, the Good Shepherd. We need to be reminded, especially in the difficult moments of life that we are not forsaken; God is with us. We have a good shepherd who will guide us through the trials and tribulations of this life to…
