State Chaplain’s Message
A few days ago, just after the celebration of Epiphany, the scripture for the daily Mass gave us, as its Gospel, the story of the feeding of the Multitude. It seems somewhat odd that less than two weeks after we had celebrated the birth of our Lord, we are offered, as our Gospel, this story. …
Our Bible, the sacred scripture on which we base our lives, is magnificent on many levels. Above all, it guides us morally for it teaches us how we are to adore God and interact with others, but amazingly it is also quite entertaining, engaging us with interesting characters participating in a compelling story with wonderfully …
The Example of Joseph Mary and Jesus are, of course, the proper focus of Christmas, but the season of Advent, which we now observe, is also the true time of St. Joseph. The Gospel for the Second Sunday proclaims that John the Baptist was sent to “Prepare the way of the Lord,” as Jesus began …
Fratelli tutti The Pope’s recent encyclical is called ‘Fratelli tutti’ or ‘Brothers and sisters all,’ and in this Year when our Order celebrates that we are ‘Knights of Fraternity’ it is a particularly apropos time for this statement from our Pontiff. In it, Pope Francis encourages the entire world to reevaluate their entire view of …
In scripture, we often read about confrontations between Jesus and the Pharisees in which Jesus is pointing out the fallacy of the Pharisees’ focus on the comparatively less important concern of the washing of hands and eating utensils, while they seemed unconcerned about the fact that they were, as Jesus tells them, “full of greed …
COVID-19 and “Living” Through the majority of August, we in Saskatchewan have seen a decrease in active cases of COVID-19 and we should be complimented for our efforts to do whatever we can to limit the spread of this virus. But with that good news in mind, we also know that we have, more recently, …
