Our world is on fire, the planet is burning up, COVID-19 continues to smoulder, destruction of Mother Earth is at a boiling point. And so, we cry out: Come Holy Spirit with the fire of your love. Humanity is at a breaking point (…)
May 2020
A Story of Art and Theology In impeccable French, Fr. Donald MacDonald, OFM, agrees to talk about his university career: 50 years devoted to teaching at Newman Theological College in Edmonton. At the age of 84, he is on the threshold of retirement. “I (…)
“Remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” – Matthew 28.20 Enough said. I was going to leave my blog post at that for this week. I mean what more do we need? This last line from the Gospel of (…)
God’s Blessings God’s blessings abound they are all around from the stars above to the earth below love invested in each part. God’s blessings abound they are within us from are beating heart to our every breath love invested in each part. God’s (…)
With St. Francis of Assisi being the Patron Saint of ecology, the Franciscan Order has produced various documents and study guides. We take our inspiration from our founder who saw the gift of God in all creation and all of humanity. One of (…)
Saint Francis of Assisi saw God in all of creation. His Canticle of Creatures speaks to the relationship we have with all of creation and with each other as sisters and brothers. He called the moon a sister and it was on a (…)
Over the weekend here in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies we saw beautiful sunshine and bright blue skies, a welcomed spring gift. Today we experienced the start of a few days of rain, another welcomed spring gift. Each season offers so many (…)
Morning Praise Valley air freshness lofts in and all around, hymns of the birds lifts my soul, sunshine gently kisses the day, shades of green awakening to life all lifting their praise to God. A distant barking dog calling for play, the cawing (…)
My post for the weekend spoke about being in the garden, preparing for planting this week. It also spoke about relationship. We often fail to remember our relationship with creation and Mother Earth. This week (May 16-24) is Laudato Si’ Week. It was five (…)
On Saturday afternoon in a twist of plans I spent most of it in the garden with one of my Friar Brothers. Together we worked on preparing the garden for planting and prepared some new spaces for plants. We worked together on some projects (…)
