Situated about 20-miles Southeast of the Delaware Water Gap, the popular American national recreation area on the Delaware River near the border of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a Catholic summer camp called Camp Auxilium welcomes children as they arrive...
Diego Maratta is a retired permanent deacon of Toronto from St. Benedict Parish in Etobicoke. He is also a consecrated member of a lay monastic community, the “Community of the sons and daughters of God”. The community...
How many faithful can really appreciate the beauty of receiving Holy Communion? How many faithful, after receiving Holy Communion, will quiet down to be united with the Eucharist?
In the past few months, we had often found hosts abandoned and...
The following was written by James Cyfko, a seminarian at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto currently working as a summer student at the Office of Catholic Youth.
Totus Tuus, which translates as “Totally Yours” in English, was...
Those things which a man cannot amend in himself or in others, he ought to bear patiently, until God shall otherwise ordain. You should consider that perhaps it is a better way to try out your patience, without which our...
Julia and Adam Kozak, a married couple actively involved in bridge-building and peacemaking with Indigenous and non-indigenous peoples, reflect on National Indigenous Peoples Day. Adam, a Lay Pastoral Associate and musician, was the National Project Manager for...
In the Old Testament era, the Israelites always used the analogy of the cedar tree to describe power and kingship because the prophets (like Isaiah, David etc.) had many times used the cedar tree to describe the grandeur of a...
After God had created Adam and Eve, he blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things...
WE MUST not rely too much upon ourselves, for grace and understanding are often lacking in us. We have but little inborn light, and this we quickly lose through negligence. Often we are not aware that we are so blind...
A writer of love story once said in his speech that there are three kinds of people in the world : the first kind is one who doesn’t look beautiful at first sight, but who becomes more beautiful as...
The celebration of thanksgiving Mass is the occasion when the faithful, through Holy Communion, i.e. receiving the body and blood of the Lord, can be intimately united with Christ. Acceptance of the communion is the recognition of Christ&rsquo...
This Mother’s Day weekend we have a special blog post from Dorothy Pilarski, the founder of CatholicMomsGroup.com, who offers this reflection on the 10 characteristics of motherhood as demonstrated by her own mom:
My mom was outspoken...