Category Archives: Musings

Each year on August 1st, I am amazed at the change in the air.It seems like everything is aligned, when we flip to the new calendar month. The weather breaks and the mornings are a little cooler, afternoon are more tolerable and the evenings lend themselves for sitting by a fire with a warm beverage.Continue reading “and so it begins…”

August seems to be the month where we naturally begin to look forward, the days are not quite as long and the nights are getting cooler. We start to see fall registrations for sports and classes and the Back to school advertisements start to appear. We start to shift from the lazy days of summerContinue reading “August – My Reflection Month”

Back in 2007 as my refocus on my faith life was just starting, I was introduce to ‘the WORD among us’ monthly magazine that provides daily mediations and article for Catholics.I have kept up a yearly subscription most years since then and find that they have easy to navigate reflections that fit well with theContinue reading “May the ‘Force’ be with you”

So often I listen to people lament about how their family just seem to not be interested in the faith, this appears to be the never ending narrative around the ‘Holy Water Cooler’. Some of the issue is that we stopped telling ‘our’ story, we stopped telling people about how God is working in ourContinue reading “Your Story is Important…”

The other day I heard these lines from the Youtube video feed: “God never told you to follow your heart… He says the heart is deceitful, so follow me.” “He never told you to live your own truth… He said to live his truth, because he is truth.”“He never told you to love how youContinue reading “Wisdom from the Feed”

A little more than a month, back at Blessed Sacrament Parish, it seems like September started in August. There is a natural cadence that is developed early in our lives because of the starting of the new school year, we are accustomed, or can I thrusted into a new routine after the lazy days ofContinue reading “A Season of channeling Peace…”

This seems to be a ‘buzz word’ in the Christian circles … as a way of having faith or Jesus on your own terms. We say it … but are not really know what we mean when we say it.

We have all experienced this shift in the last decade … this video brings to light in a real way, the challenge that we are facing in our families, parishes and communities.

Bishop Baron unpacks how we need to view the Ascension of the Lord, not as an absence or departing of Jesus’ presence but a fulfillment of his presence in our lives. Great response to the question… DG