I’ve learned a lot from St. Peter this past year. He was a simple fisherman who God used to do great things. He was grossly under-qualified for the job Jesus gave him and really struggled with trust and abandonment. I’ve come back to accounts of Peter grasping and falling short in the Gospels so many … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s Day, friends! I have always loved this holiday, not because of a penchant for stuffed animals and waxy chocolate, but because the legends surrounding the life of Saint Valentine are so, so epic! In any case, today’s gospel reading is so fitting for a day celebrating all things love. In Mark 8:1-10, we see … Continue reading
You know well that when you search for something too anxiously you can come upon it a hundred times without ever seeing it. So do not let anxiety sabotage your search for God. Anxiety is the enemy of a soul’s peace. It cannot come from God. – St. Francis de Sales Continue reading
Today is the Feast Day of St. Ignatius of Loyola–one of my all-time favourite saints! Founding father of the Jesuits, Loyola’s spirituality is as relevant today as it was over 400 years ago. His works have helped me to fall in love with God and to seek and find the Divine in the midst of … Continue reading
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. – St. Catherine of Siena Continue reading
I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God— It changes me. – C. S. Lewis Continue reading
“Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise; your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning. And so we men, who are a due part of your creation, long to praise you – we also carry our mortality about with us, carry the evidence of our sin and with it the … Continue reading
We’re five days into the new year and things are already looking up. 2011 was exhausting, mostly because I took on more than I could handle once again. I’ve made it my goal to live by the words of St. Teresa of Avila this year who said, “It is not a matter of thinking a great … Continue reading
Free will is this beautiful thing, but at times it feels like a curse, because so often, I feel like the death in me will always win over the part of me that knows what choices will actually bring me joy and fullness. Instead, I consistently choose the easier path because I am lazy, because … Continue reading
Yesterday afternoon, following the Mass of the Feast of Christ the King, I listened with a full heart as one of my best friends gushed about how much the Lord wants us to depend on Him; about how He always gives us what we need and walks on this journey with us. She sounded like … Continue reading
We must love God back, passionately! Through the other. We must love our neighbor, not only as ourselves but with the heart of God. Christ said to his disciples, “By this shall men know that you are my disciples, that you love one another as I have loved you.” To love with the heart of … Continue reading
I was reading Catherine Doherty’s meditation for yesterday, the feast day of St.Francis of Assisi. Inspired by his great prayer, I wanted to share some of my favorite prayers. I can still hear CCO founder, Andre Regnier, speaking to us at our last training session this past summer. We sat looking out at parliament before … Continue reading
