church and scripture
A Pilgrimage Close to Home
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008This year marks the 125th anniversary of my home Parish of St. Margaret’s. Today on Easter Sunday we are hosting the Pilgrimage of The Ark of the New Covenant which is on a walking pilgrimage from the Canadian Martyr’s Shrine to The International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City in June. There will be an Easter [...]
Easter is Here! The 40 Days are Over.
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Many years ago, I was able to spend Easter at Madonna House. Several of us stayed up all night after the Easter Vigil, then made a pre-dawn hike up a mountainous hill to get to Ascension Rock– a large outcropping overlooking the Madawaska River Valley for sunrise. We made a slight miscalculation. [...]
Day 21- Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Since she was four, our daughter has attended Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, also known as the Atrium at our home Parish of St. Margaret’s in Midland, Ontario. My daughter has enjoyed the hands-on and self directed approach to learning about our faith, and our entire family’s faith experience has been enriched by [...]
Day 19 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: St. Michael’s Cathedral
Sunday, February 24th, 2008While we were at Podcamp Toronto, my wife and I went to mass at St. Michaels Cathedral
which is the cathedral of our diocese and the home of the world famous St. Michael’s Boy’s Choir School. Of course we went to the one Sunday mass that doesn’t have music. It was a good one [...]
Day 17 of 40 Days of Catholic Media- Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Voice That Spoke to Elijah in the Mount [9:00m]: Play in Popup | Download (39) What Ahab Paid for His Vineyard [5:04m]: Play in Popup | Download (41) Elijah's Chariot of Fire [5:42m]: Play in Popup | Download (41)I mentioned last week that I’m a volunteer reader for Librivox.org, recording public domain audiobooks. For a while I’ve been participating in a project to record Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, a 1904 adaptation of all the stories in the Bible for [...]
Day 12 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Catholic Audiobooks at LibriVox
Sunday, February 17th, 2008For a couple of years, I have been a volunteer reader for Librivox.org. Librivox is an online project that has an amazing mission statement: “To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.” Over a 1500 volunteers all over the [...]
Day 8 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Madonna House
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008As a young man, I spent almost a year at Madonna House, discerning my vocation, chopping wood and veggies, and learning to live their life of simplicity, prayer, work and charity. Madonna House is a community of laymen, lay women and priests in the woods of Northeastern Ontario in Combermere. Their foundress, Catherine Doherty was [...]
Tim Chesterton’s late night questions about the Internet
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Over at Tale Spin, Tim Chesterton has posted Tim’s late night questions about the Internet,
in which he poses a series of questions about the nature of community in general and Christian Community in particular on the Internet.
Some of his questions include:
Is it possible to find real community on the Internet?
Does real community not necessarily involve [...]
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