St. Maximilian Kolbe is one of my heroes… so every year I “bump” this post in his honor. If you’ve ever studied World War II, you’ve probably heard of Auschwitz. Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp that later became the largest of the Nazi death camps, where almost 1.1 million people -mostly Jewish- died. One of these 1.1 […]
The Last Four Things
Let’s get the bad news out of the way right off the bat: we’re all going to die. While we may not think about it very often, death is inevitable. It often takes a personal brush with death or the illness or loss of a loved one to make us even consider our own mortality. Whether you fear […]
YouCat: The Christian Profession of Faith
At Mass each Sunday, following the homily, we are invited to stand and profess the Creed. In Canada, it is customary to recite the Apostle’s Creed – the shorter, older form of the creed which is thought to be the summary of faith of the Apostles. This Creed is professed in many other Christian Churches […]
Support a Catholic Speaker Month: Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio
This post is my contribution to Brandon Vogt’s “Support a Catholic Speaker Month“, which is trying to raise awareness on some of the great speakers who travel North America helping support all the rest of us in ministry, and in building up the Church. If you follow the link, you can read about some of […]