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God remembers his children, and he doesn’t need a journal
“When I grow up, I’m going to be a nun … Or a figure skater … Can I be both?” — Madalen, 6 years old. When I was pregnant with … Continued
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How to respond when reality falls short, as it always does
18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year CFirst Reading: Ecc 1:2, 2:21-23Second Reading: Col 3:1-5, 9-11Gospel Reading: Lk 12:13-21 I restaurant I loved has been sold, and the food is not … Continued
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The four conditions of effective prayer
St. Thomas Aquinas taught that four conditions are required for prayer to be effective. He wrote, “four conditions are laid down; namely, to ask – for ourselves – things necessary … Continued
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Choose relationship while it is still today
“No one sees a flower, really. It is so small it takes time. We haven’t time, and to see takes time … like to have a friend takes time.” That’s … Continued
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A summer field trip to a Catholic bookstore
It’s summertime! School is out and, while life in a full household is never truly slow, it is refreshing to experience a change of pace. As a teacher (and student), … Continued
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Residential school film’s moderate tone may be its greatest strength
In the year since the Kamloops Indian Residential School graves discovery, being a Catholic in Canada has been a challenge. Dishonest reporting and sensationalist rhetoric, mixed with last summer’s arson … Continued
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From the streets of Vancouver to a papal Mass: an Indigenous journey
My name is William Burgess, but my real name was Billy Howard Brown. I was born in the northeastern part of British Columbia in the heartland of the Dunneza people. … Continued
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A primrose-ish path to Paris
Essayist Samuel Johnson writes that the use of travel is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of how thinking about things may be, to see them as they are. … Continued
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God our King grants us a continual audience
St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote, “God wills us to be saved; but for our greater good, he wills us to be saved as conquerors.” Prayer is our main weapon in spiritual … Continued
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Important distinctions are needed about residential school history
In the final section of his presentation on the work of reconciliation with Indigenous people, James Borkowski looks at some background about the residential school system that many people haven’t … Continued