Today we begin a new liturgical year with the First Sunday of Advent. The season of Advent is significant in two ways: It prepares us for Christmas, as we recall Christ’s nativity in Bethlehem and it is also a time when we look forward to Christ’s second coming at the end of the ages that […]
Solitude and time alone can sometimes seem at odds with our need for connections through friendship. As both human and Divine, Jesus provides us with many examples of the connection between solitude and friendship and what God teaches us about the need to seek out the solitary to prepare for friendship. December 16th, 2018 – […]
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe that was established in 1921 by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical letter Quas Primas. The Pope connected the increasing denial of Christ as king to the rise of secularism throughout Europe. At that time many Christians began doubting Christ’s existence […]
The celebration of the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time reminds us that this liturgical year is approaching to an end. Next Sunday we will celebrate the Solemnity of Christ the King and in two weeks the First Sunday of Advent that begins a new liturgical year. Usually when a period of time is about to […]
Today we celebrate with the Universal Church the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Additionally today, along with the Commonwealth of Nations we celebrate Remembrance Day. This year to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of The First World War, the royal Canadian Legion has requested that all churches and places of worship across Canada […]