Ever since I have been a child, I have enjoyed Halloween. I have enjoyed the creativity of it and the sense of adventure. There is something about the glow of light coming from a carved pumpkin on a dark night that (…)
October 2020
Construction on Red Lake church in Ontario in October 1952. Fr. Stan Frytek is standing second from the left. Written on the back of the photograph: “Part of kitchenette visible. Cement mixer we used. It took 250 sacks of cement for job. Boy in (…)
“Love your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your mind… love your neighbour as yourself,” Jesus says in gospel of Matthew (chapter 22). These greatest of commandments echo in my head and heart not only this weekend (…)
Reading pope Francis’ new encyclical “Fratelli tutti,” I stopped at the second chapter entitled, A Stranger on the Way. Here are excerpts from what Pope Francis writes: «In the attempt to search for a ray of light in the midst of what we (…)
“One thing I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: to live in the house of the LORD all the days of my life” – Psalm 27 “One thing have I asked of Love, that I shall ever seek: That I might (…)
From 1946-1953, Fr. Stan (Ladislaus) Frytek was in charge of St. John’s mission at Red Lake in northwestern Ontario and many of its outlying missions, including McKenzie Island, Cochenour, Balmertown, Finn Town, Madsen, Campbell, and Dickenson, as well as Lac du Bonnet and Bisset (…)
“On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of rich food, a feast of well aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.” – Isaiah 25.6 On this Thanksgiving Weekend this is a (…)
October 4, 2020 My Dear Brother Francis, Here we are at the great festival marking your place in the company of saints. This day full of joy and celebration is also a day of looking inwardly mindful of your words: “I have (…)
How might St. Francis matter to scientists? His religious worldview is not what people expect to find when they hear a scientist talk. However, something like it will often be there. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind,” was famously (…)
Inspiration and Discovery From Cover to Cover To my great joy, I was given the opportunity to introduce myself to you and tell you about my extraordinary duties in the Rosemont convent. My name is Maxime Laprade, and I am a master’s student in (…)
