WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
When you are born into a faith you think that everyone thinks like you do. You see the world from your own skin and your own perspective. As a child growing up in Scarborough, I saw the world divided into Catholic…
Category Prayer
VISIO DIVINA: NORTHERN NATIVITY REDUX
Hi, my name is Les Miller, author of a new Novalis book called, Northern Light: A Canadian Prayer Book, which is a book of prayers and reflections with accompanying photographs. In it, I use a form of prayer called Vision…
POPE FRANCIS ANNOUNCES THE YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH
I’m rather partial to St. Joseph, considering that I bear his name and was baptized on his feast day of March 19. And so I felt a special thrill when Pope Francis announced Dec. 8 that we would be celebrating…
PRAYING FOR OUR DEPARTED LOVED ONES DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER
Death for a Christian is a bittersweet event. On the one hand, we are supposed to rejoice since the person that died has entered eternal life with God, the aim and culmination of our earthly pilgrimage. Our faith gives us…
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 joy of traversing our country preparing a new book, to…
PRAYING WITH THE PSALMS IN CHALLENGING TIMES
Many of us are hurting as we miss our parish communities during this time of isolation. It is good that we have technology to bring the liturgy to us, even if we aren’t sitting together in the pews. Still, there…
INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SWAN, AUTHOR OF WRITTEN ON MY HEART
What is Written On My Heart about? It’s about the most common, ordinary way Catholics pray – rote, memorized prayers. This is a method of prayer often dismissed as unthinking, robotic and possibly an example of misguided, magical thinking. People say Hail…
3rd SUNDAY OF LENT – REFLECTION
Why was the Samaritan woman drawing water at the well at noon, the hottest part of the day? This is not the time that most people would be coming for water. Most people would want to avoid the heat of…
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER – MARCH 6, 2020
Prayer is the action that grounds us in our faith. It is a personal and communal experience that brings us closer to God. It is so much a part of us that sometimes we are unaware that it is happening.…
WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY: JAN 18-25
In some ways, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity seems kind of old-fashioned, something we thought more about in the 60’s. But the more I think and read about the issues around unity, the more I think it is…