Your Properly Formed Conscience

In the second reading we hear St. Paul say to the Corinthians, if I proclaim the Gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the Gospel!

During these past few days there has been much discussion about the government’s regulations regarding the hiring of summer students ...

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Fr Charlie

I will raise up for them a Prophet…

“I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their own kin; I will put my words in [their] mouth”

As I had grown up in the 70’s and 80’s, when someone was described as “a prophet,” I usually pictured a cartoon-like hippie with a robe and long beard carrying a sign stating, “The end is near!” Prophets had often ...

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Mary Joshi

Good News

Wouldn’t we all want to know the future?  Let me rephrase that …wouldn’t we all want to know the future if everything in the future were going to be okay!  The psalmist sings, “Lord, make me know your ways.”  It’s a little like asking, ‘Let me know the future.’  Maybe … but not if it’s bad news.  Good news is what Jesus is speaking when he arrives in Galilee.  Mark ...

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Ellen Bennett

Who Do You Think You Are?

“Oh, those shoes are calling my name.”

“My name has been called for jury duty.”

 “That piece of cheesecake has my name on it.”

“I swear on my name, I will poke you in the eye!”

“I want to make a name for myself.”

“His name is mud.”

What calls your name? Like many, many people on the planet, in recent ...

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Trevor Droesbeck

Epiphany of the Lord

Today’s celebration, the Epiphany of the Lord, I believe has much to offer us in our faith journeys. As I read today’s gospel, I am struck by the depth of the word epiphany. Epiphany means “manifestation” or “showing forth”. I think of the amount of faith manifested by the wise men to follow a star upon its rising, ...

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Katy Mahoney

Christmas Message from Fr. Phil

Welcoming the Stranger

When I can still myself long enough during the Christmas season, questions like the following always seem to surface: Who is this One laying in a manger? Who was Jesus? What difference did his coming make in my life and the life of the world? Questions about Jesus inevitably lead me to God. There will always be a ...

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Fr Phil

Sharing Joy!

Pearl’s daughter. Mary Lou’s husband. Michael’s wife. How many times, and in how many ways, do we define ourselves by who we are? And, like John the Baptist, in today’s gospel, are there times and ways we define ourselves by who we are not? John made it clear that he was not the Christ, not ...

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Cathy Keirstead

Tis the Season to Hold On

“Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term …” The opening words to the reading from Isaiah, set the tone for all of today’s readings. They acknowledge that there is pain in the world and the path of our lives can be filled ...

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Pam Driedger

I am the Alpha and the Omega

‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

As Christians, we know that Jesus has already come and that every day we are called to live our lives through him, and with him, and in him, yet every year our Mother the Church invites us to prepare anew for his coming ...

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Fr Charlie

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