This year, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated on 25 September. Catholics worldwide are called upon to remember those displaced by conflict and persecution. ADDITIONAL INFO The last Sunday of September of every year is the Vatican’s World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The World Day […]
34th Sunday of Year A – Feast of Christ the universal King – 2020
In many areas of Quebec Province, countless orange cones raise their heads – they seem to be everywhere. We are used to their presence, used also to seeing near them a familiar road sign which reads: The 1st reading of today’s Feast of Christ the universal King brings to mind […]
15th Sunday of Year C – 2019
Some of Jesus’ parables are well-known, nearly too well-known, yet not known well enough… We may be tempted to think that his message is equally familiar but… Intellectual knowledge is one thing, daily living is another – we are aware of this! This Sunday’s parable of The Good Samaritan (Lk.10:25-37) […]
International Literacy Day – 8 September
The United Nations’ (UN) International Literacy Day annually falls on September 8 to raise people’s awareness of and concern for literacy issues in the world. International Literacy Day highlights the importance of literacy in areas such as health and education Background According to UNESCO, about 774 million adults lack the […]
16th Sunday of Year B
The relationship between a shepherd and his flock is not something one is used to in our society. A text that would describe this would belong to literature and… one could venture to say that there is a touch of sentimentality about it! The Bible offers us such a description […]
4th Sunday of Easter, Year B
The gospel of this Sunday (4th Sunday of Easter, Year B – Jn.10:11-18) is well known with its text on the Good Shepherd. The words of Jesus are familiar and the picture they suggest to our minds is one similar to the picture here – a man concerned about his […]
13th Sunday of the Year, A
“FIRST THINGS FIRST”! We hear these words from time to time. They usually come from someone who has a lot to do already and to whom someone may ask to do something more… The person may feel that too many tasks demand his attention, too many commitments claim her time […]
World Environment Day – 5 June
Man is both creature and moulder of his environment, which gives him physical sustenance and affords him the opportunity for intellectual, moral, social and spiritual growth. In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when, through the rapid acceleration of […]
4th Sunday of Easter, C
Many of us like to have some pictures in our missal or our Bible; this makes it easy for us to find a special text or a reference we often come back to. The pictures may have been there for months, even years and… we do not pay much attention […]
2nd Sunday of the Year, C
The Wedding Feast at Cana It seems that we know the text of this gospel scene so well (Jn.2:1-11), we could repeat it with all its details. And that is precisely the danger: perhaps we know it too well! If someone were to ask me to summarize this text in […]