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PASSIONTIDE April 6, 2025
The Fifth Sunday of Lent is often known as the "First Sunday in Passiontide", because now the "time of Our Lord's saving Passion is drawing closer".
This week ahead takes on many of the characteristics...
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DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU March 30, 2025
We live in an era in which verbal attack is commonplace. Politically, much of western society has become divided to the point of extreme polarization, in which one side views the other as positively evil. One politician running for the...
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THE PRESENCE OF GOD March 23, 2025
In today's first reading we heard the fascinating story of Moses and the burning bush. That episode was a real incursion of the supernatural into everyday life. An angel appeared to Moses in the shape of a flame of...
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LISTEN TO HIM! March 16, 2025
Christ is the Lord of glory as we hear in today's Gospel of the Transfiguration. At first sight it seems strange to hear this account in Lent, the season of austerity, and preparation for Holy Week. Yet we must...
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THE FORTY DAYS’ FAST March 9, 2025
St. Luke tells us in today’s Gospel reading that the Holy Spirit who had come down upon Our Lord at His Baptism, then led Him out into the wilderness for forty days, and during that time He held...
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SEVENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR February 23, 2025
In the gospel reading this Sunday, Saint Luke is giving his readers a course in practical Christianity through Our Lord’s saying on this theme.
Luke is unique among the evangelists in writing for...
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SIXTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR February 16, 2025
Today’s gospel reading consisted of Saint Luke’s presentation of the Beatitudes. The Catechism describes these words of Jesus as the heart of the Gospel. If we are to find the message of Our Lord distilled...
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FISHERS OF MEN February 9, 2025
Today the Gospel tells of a miracle and a vocation. When Our Lord called Simon Peter to be His follower, He won His admiration by working a miracle. Simon was a fisherman. On the occasion we hear of today, he...
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THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE February 2, 2025
This Sunday is the final feast of the Christmas cycle, in which we celebrate the event which St. Luke tells us took place forty days after our Lord was born, when “in accordance with the Law of the Lord...
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THE THIRD SUNDAY OF THE YEAR January 26, 2025
Today's Gospel Reading runs together the introduction St. Luke wrote at the beginning of his Gospel, with the opening of the account of Our Lord's public ministry. St. Luke describes Our Lord's return from His baptism by...
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SAUL, THE PHARISEE RECEIVES GOD’S GRACE January 19, 2025
January 25th is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. The New Testament saint has such an enormous influence on the Christian Church. The basic facts are quite well known. Saul, a young and fanatical pharisee, was a rising...
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The Baptism of the Lord January 11, 2025
Last week we were reminded of an ancient tradition whereby, on the Feast of the Epiphany, three different manifestations or “showings forth” of Our Lord to the world were commemorated. That is, His adoration by the Magi, His...
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EPIPHANY January 5, 2025
A VERY BIG THANK YOU!
To all those who volunteered their time and efforts to decorate the church for Christmas with flowers, the nativity scenes, trees and wreaths! The church was adorned beautifully to greet the...
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MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD December 29, 2024
Although we are used to thinking of Our Blessed Lady as the Mother of God, and honouring her as such, we must remember that there was a time in the history of the Church when certain theologians denied that Mary...
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ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST’S MISSION December 15, 2024
Last Sunday we heard the voice of John the Baptist calling the people to repentance in preparation for the coming of the Christ. Today we hear some of the teaching that he gave in answer to the questions various groups...
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BE ALERT! December 1, 2024
Our Lord’s urgent message in today’s Advent Sunday Gospel would have had a very special place in the minds of our Catholic forebears only a few hundred years ago in a time of persecution in Elizabethan...
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Journey through Advent – First Sunday of Advent 2024
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1 December 2024 – First Sunday of Advent – Year C
Your redemption is drawing near. (Luke 21:25-28, 34-36)
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops presents Journey through Advent with the Most Rev. Frank...
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CHRIST THE KING November 24, 2024
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...