November 2021

Every month, we share a photo from our archives! – A view of San Antonio Gold Mines in Bissett, Manitoba, 1940s. The Franciscans served several missions in northern Ontario and Manitoba around this time. (…)
“Your kingdom come…” we pray this line many times, and yet we wonder where your kingdom is. If we pay attention to message of Jesus your kingdom is yes, in our hearts yet it is encountered with the poor, with the homeless, with (…)
There is an interesting line in the gospel of Mark in which Jesus says: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away” (Mark 13.31). We can often focus on the endings of things or the uncertainty around us (…)
In this week of Remembrance Day, we take time to honour those who have served and protected our country, and those who have fought and continue to fight for peace. Among the accounts of the First World War and Second World War, we can (…)
When war ravages, when nations dissolve, when countries turn on each other, Peace. Let there be peace. When cultures clash, when peoples see only skin color, when communities divide, Peace. Let there be peace. When families separate, when homes fall a part, (…)