Restoring Relationships
Relationships are worth restoring (Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Life, 152). It’s worth it to reach…
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Doing What We Should Do
There are certain things that we should be doing right now but maybe don’t feel…
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Something Dying Leads to Something Coming to Life
Most of us are experiencing unusual suffering right now, and the human person needs to…
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Overcoming Suffering
All of us hit walls in life and faith. Some of us are hitting one right…
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Being on Time for Mass
Before we get to the homily proper, I’d just like to address the current COVID-19…
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Experiencing Transcendence
When in your day do you start to relax? Is it when you leave work? Arrive home? Change…
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An Opportunity to Grow
I love opportunities. For the past nine years, I’ve been doing home fitness programs and always…
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Gentle and Judgemental Equals Perfection
You have to see the recently released movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood about Mr. Rogers. For…
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Choosing a Better Way
Nick Vujicic was born without arms and legs. He was teased and bullied as a child,…
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Stopping 42 Million Murders
In elementary school, I remember being on a school bus going south on Granville Street…
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Why Euthanasia is Wrong
The 2016 film Arrival asks the question if we would accept life knowing that it will involve…
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Preventing Divisions in the Parish
Here are some things that may be dividing us at St. Anthony’s: A few people…
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Spiritual Friendships
Let’s deal with two problems regarding friendships. First, what’s called being “unequally yoked,” a term from…
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How to Realize You’re Special
Bob was only 13 when his father left the family. Being the second oldest of seven…
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The Best Time to Grow Spiritually
How do you want this year to be better than last year? I’ll ask again: How…
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A Chance for Reconciliation
Merry Christmas, everyone! During the First World War, there was the famous Christmas Truce of…
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Overcoming Fear of Rejection
Once I was doing a video conference call with eleven priests, and the topic for…
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Welcoming Others as Christ Welcomed Us
Three weeks ago, we gathered donations for the seven people who lost their belongings in…
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The Gift of the Wake-up Call
This is Angelo Roncalli, in the centre, an Italian seminarian in 1901. Note that he’s young…
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The Essence of Christianity
God is calling us to understand the big story of our faith, today. In other words, what’s…
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A Call to Service
You know how we all say we’re busy? Can we be honest and admit that, despite…
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How to Become a Hospitality Superhero
Here is an excerpt of Fr. Justin’s “Radical Hospitality” talk at the Upper Room Conference…
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Spontaneous Prayer
I’ve said some foolish things in my life. One time I met a woman who said,…
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Parenting
A good young priest, Fr. Lucio Choi, once shared with me how he was discouraged,…
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Healing is Simpler Than Imagined
I know a man who’s got a lot of problems: He struggles with his closest…
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How do you spell faith? R-I-S-K
Many of you have said that you remember the story I told last year about…
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How We Treat the Poor Matters
I have a happy announcement to make, one that reminds us to do some biblical…
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Should There Be Separation of Church and State?
On December 1, 1955, a 42-year old black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give…
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The Value of One Person
Two years ago, I learned something funny about boys and girls. At the end of the…
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Fruitful Discipleship
One of the last times I went to Confession, I wanted to make a really…
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