Liturgically speaking, Holy Saturday is the quietest day of the year – the time between Jesus’ death, and his resurrection which takes place at the Easter Vigil, technically Easter Sunday. Holy Saturday has always seemed to be such a quiet day in the midst of a very busy week – especially when I try to […]
Good Friday Reflection: The Power of Christ’s Blood (St. John Chrysostom)
You may not know that one of the promises clergy & religious make upon entering their vocation is to pray the Liturgy of the Hours (AKA Divine office.) This is a routine of prayers that they pray at various times throughout the day to make sure that they don’t lose sight of their relationship with […]
Three Words
Two years ago, on January 14th, 2018, I said farewell to my father as he died due to complications related to cancer. It was one of the hardest days I’ve ever lived – I wrote the following a couple of days later to try and put into words what my dad means to me. In […]
Praying for Edmonton….
‘Shocked, saddened and horrified: Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council issues statement on Edmonton attacks https://t.co/9bdcWmvHmT#yeg — Global Edmonton (@GlobalEdmonton) October 1, 2017 Many of you may have seen or heard about the suspected terror attack in Edmonton last night which sent five to hospital – including a member of the Edmonton Police Service. There are […]
(Be)Loved by the Son
In the first part of this series, we took a look at what it means to be loved by our Heavenly Father. In this second post, we’re going to take a deeper look at what it means to be loved by the Son. Of the three persons in the Holy Trinity, the love of the […]
A Good One
I’ve been married to my beautiful wife, Jennifer, for nearly twelve years now. Looking back, there are a number of moments in our relationship that terrified me: working up the courage to talk to her, actually asking her on a date, holding her hand for the first time, proposing marriage… and the day I had […]