IN CELEBRATION OF CANADA DAY
Despite the strange circumstances we find ourselves in during this time of pandemic, we have much to celebrate this Canada Day. Over the past few years, I have had the […]
Author Archives: Novalis Seeds of Faith
ARE YOU LIKE PETER OR ARE YOU LIKE PAUL?
Everywhere you go in Rome, when you find Saint Peter or Paul, you always find the other guy hanging around. In front of Saint Peter’s on the Vatican – there […]
WHY ARE WE HERE?
Mary Jo Leddy’s book Why Are We Here? A Meditation of Canada takes its title from the question of a Tsimshian chief to an explorer first arriving on the shore […]
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!
Whether we have a caring father we’re in touch with often or he is nowhere to be found, whether he is a model of how to live or his life […]
THE PLACE WHERE HUNGERS ARE FED
If there was ever a time when we could relate to a group of humbled, hungry people wandering through an arid wasteland thick with poisonous snakes and scorpions, it is […]
WHAT THIS PANDEMIC TAUGHT ME, OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE ZOOM
I’m writing this from the privacy of my daughter’s former bedroom. It has pink walls. There is a long-forgotten teddy bear on the bed. It shares the space with the […]
HOLY TRINITY
One day, I was in a parking lot, getting into my car, when I was accosted by an older woman who was on a mission. She approached me aggressively and […]
ON GRIEF, THE PANDEMIC AND PENTECOST
I remember when COVID-19 started, just as the word “pandemic” was starting to be whispered, before life as we knew it changed so radically. That first week, it seemed harder […]
MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
She was there at the birth of Christ. She was there at the birth of Christ’s Church. She is here, now, at Pentecost as the Church thinks of how to […]
Pentecost
A second story fear of Empire and its second-hand crush had them up all night huddled in a room trying to constitute community draft after draft no consensus inch by […]
