Every year, we gather for a week-long annual retreat, usually in our retreat house in Cochrane, AB. And this is when we take a picture of the community. Also in this picture is our retreat preacher, Dan Horan, OFM, the facilitator of our (…)
August 2017
By Br. Michael Perras, O.F.M., and Br. Benjamin Ripley, O.F.M. While making their way through the streets of old Quebec City, a group of Friars paused for a brief history lesson as they had done several times in the days previous. This time, however, (…)
What do you think the friar on the left is thinking? He seems to have figured it all out. I am not so sure about the others, though. Clearly, they are not there, yet. Fair enough, considering that they are on a pilgrimage, (…)
It used to be right there, a picture of writing on a scroll, in the dining room of our friary in Victoria. “And the Lord gave me some brothers.” Some, indeed. Not just brothers. Some brothers. Many a dinner I ate, a brother (…)
A recording of my lecture in Chicago at the meeting of the Society of Catholic Scientists is on YouTube. (…)
Thanks to the initiative of Guylain Prince, OFM, a group of friars from both the Eastern and the Western Canadian Province of the Franciscans is currently traveling along the St. Lawrence River to learn more about the history of the friars in Canada. (…)
The New York Times’s philosophy column can be counted upon for answers to the deepest questions about matters of the greatest importance. Recently, it argued that there is no purpose or meaning in the activities of the natural world, and, following a well-trodden (…)
