May 2017

“You have a fourth baptism! Man, I’m jealous, this doesn’t happen very often” texted me the pastor, just before driving to the airport to begin his much-deserved vacation. I am filling in for him, letting me experience the joys of parish ministry for (…)
There is a chapel on the campus of the University of British Columbia that is rather important to me. It is St. Mark’s Chapel, and it is where I went to mass for about a year-and-a-half, just before becoming a Franciscan. And last (…)
The dreaded word, disclosing by hiding, making ambiguity its only reality: interesting. This, and a remark that my talk was the one that was most talked about, were the principal comments that I remember now that the conference is in the past. Hardly (…)