We’ve celebrated the feast days of two of the Church’s most remarkable saints this past week. Of course, the Blessed Virgin Mary—the most remarkable saint of all, the saint of saints, the original—in her glorious Assumption was commemorated on Wednesday 15 August. This is one

One of the greatest delights of Catholicism lies in our not being able to exhaust the full array of its riches; it offers a fathomless superabundant feast on which we manage only to nibble at throughout our lives. This means that many of the most profound truths of our Faith are left

A famous Canadian historian of Christianity said recently that, whereas in the past people came to the Church in order to have their sins forgiven, in our contemporary society people come to the Church in order to have a place to exercise their generosity. The hint seems to be that the Church ought not remind people of their sins too much (we don’t have sins anymore

July is upon us. I was recently taken aback when someone told me that they and their friends celebrate a ‘half new year’ with the transition of June into July. Hard to believe that half of 2018 has already run its course!

In early June we celebrated St. Anthony of Padua throughout our parish campuses. It is never a bad thing to revisit certain reflections to glean further insight—perhaps this is one of the elements of leisure that summer could afford us. If you haven’t yet visited our photo galleries….

Throughout Europe the Feast of the Nativity (fancy word for birth) of St. John the Baptist is celebrated with great solemnity every June 24th. Close to the summer solstice, the last of the prophets and forerunner of the Messiah acts as a sort of gatekeeper on the path to summer.