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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
With today’s Gospel we begin a series of readings which will take us over the remaining weeks until we reach Lent. This sequence is collectively known as “The Sermon on the Mount” and takes up three...
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A GREAT MISSION
The Gospels of the early Sundays of the Year following the Baptism of the Lord continue the account of the beginnings of His public ministry. Today we hear of the call of four of the Apostles: two...
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EPIPHANY
On St John Vianney, the patron saint of parish priests, once reflected on how very happy the magi would have been if, when they returned to their own country, they could have taken with them the King...
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“O” - THAT YOU WOULD COME QUICKLY!
From December 17th onwards, the appearance of short passages beginning with “O” will infuse the Sacred Liturgy. What are they? There are seven of them altogether, each allocated to a day in the last week before Christmas.
They...
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THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
This Thursday we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It is rather sad that many Catholics seem to think of the phrase “Immaculate Conception” in negative terms—merely that Mary was conceived without Original Sin. When...
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1st SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Once again we begin a new Church Year today with the urgent call to prepare ourselves for Christ’s Second Coming.
Advent is a time of preparation. We tend to think of it first as a time of preparation...
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CHRIST THE KING
The Last Sunday of the Church’s Year corresponds to the End of Time.
In the Creed we proclaim that "He (Christ) will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and His kingdom will have...
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NO MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN?
Today’s Gospel passage introduces us to a small, but influential, group of Jews from our Lord’s time, of whom we hear much less in the Gospels than we do of their main opponents, the Pharisees. This...
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All Saints:
The Triumph of Christian Rome over pagan Rome
The celebration of the Feast of All Saints on November 1st is an ancient Roman Feast, originally in honour of all the...
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The Value of Patristic Studies in the Modern Age
The leadership at St. Augustine’s Seminary is designing a Licentiate program in Patristics – it will be the first program dedicated to Patristics in Canada when it rolls out in the 2023-2024 academic year. Fr. Robert John...
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St. Luke Evangelist
This Tuesday is the feast of St Luke who was a physician and a Gentile, probably from Greece, and was the author of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. He was the only evangelist to record Our...
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ST. TERESA
The Church keeps the memorial of St Teresa of Avila, a Carmelite nun in 16th century Spain, this Saturday.
She is rightly called the 'Great Teresa.’ Why great? Because she personally reformed and renewed the...
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Teaching as Vocation – A Look at the Catholic Teachers’ Guild
The Catholic Teachers’ Guild is a lay association in the archdiocese that aims to strengthen teachers’ vocations through formation events, study groups, lectures and mutual fraternal support. As the new school year kicks off, President Andrew Hume reflects...
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Encountering Christ on the RCIA journey
Rebecca Spellacy, who became Catholic as an adult, is the Director of Worship for the Diocese of Austin, Texas, and the former Associate Director, Liturgy, for the Office of Formation for Discipleship at the Archdiocese of Toronto. Below, she shares...
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THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM
Just as the Gospel of the First Sunday of Lent always relates Our Lord’s Temptations in the Wilderness, so the Gospel of the Second Sunday is always an account of the Transfiguration of Our...