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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...
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OUR LORD REJECTED BY HIS OWN
Today’s Gospel is St. Luke’s account of the teaching of the “Beatitudes”, by Our Lord. These are short phrases in which He declares the blessedness of those who suffer now, because they will receive...
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How to Read the Bible in a Year
Elizabeth Klein is an Assistant Professor of Theology at the Augustine Institute, which serves the formation of Catholics for the New Evangelization through academic and parish programs. As part of its work, the institute helps Catholics to read the Bible...
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‘Walking Together’ on the Journey to the Synod
Moira McQueen’s new book, Walking Together: A Primer on the New Synodality, aims to explain the history, meaning and relevance of synodality as the Church undertakes a two-year process of discernment. Below, McQueen, Executive Director of the...
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OUR LORD REJECTED BY HIS OWN
In last Sunday’s Gospel passage, we heard how Our Lord returned to His home town of Nazareth for the first time after His Baptism and told the astonished townsfolk that Isaiah’s prophecy...
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