I grew up in a home with an eclectic taste in music. The kitchen radio was always set to the country music station but that wasn’t the full soundtrack of our lives. While my dad had a tendency to have that station on for (…)
March 2020
I have an old t-shirt with a glow in the dark caption: Be the Moon – Reflect the Son. For no predetermined reason, I grabbed this t-shirt to wear today. As I was sitting in quiet prayer reflecting on the scriptures for the 4th (…)
Friends, In these days of uncertainty during this world pandemic we must remember that we still need each other, that together we are a human family. Self-isolation is one thing, being isolated is whole other thing… let us rise up and be truly brother (…)
The gospels are full of great stories, this is no surprise. The season of Lent provides us with several stories about people and their relationship with Christ. The story of the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4.5-42) is one of these great stories. (…)
Saturday, January 18, 2020, I was glad to be here at the Arsenal Art Contemporain in Montreal to view, this time in a new way, the famous paintings of Van Gogh, projected on huge walls of the Immersive Exibition Imagine Van Gogh. The works (…)
I have always loved the Second Sunday of Lent. I know it’s a bit of an oddity to love one Sunday in a liturgical season, but I do love it. I love it because every year no (…)
Fr. Engelbert Paradis came to Alberta in 1931 to teach at St. Anthony’s College in Edmonton and to help with the missions surrounding Edmonton. Here he is pictured in Wanda, Alberta, in August 1932, visiting his friend Paul Krotch on his farm. (…)
The knock came to my door early this morning, not extremely early but still early. I was awake, sitting in bed; reflecting on the day ahead, entering into prayer and considering this Lenten journey. I thought the knock was surely not at my (…)
