Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish

My Dear Family in Christ, Today, in addition to celebrating the 6th Sunday of Easter, we celebrate many of our grade two students making their first Holy Communion, and it just so happens that all of this coincides with the celebration of Mother’s Day. As a Christian, I have learned not to ignore such coincidences. At the heart of motherhood is the same sentiment that lies at the heart of the Eucharist: “This is my Body, given up for you. This is my blood, poured out for you.” Our mothers...

Dear Family in Christ, “The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they might have life, and have it abundantly.” The words of Jesus’ Good Shepherd Discourse sum up the spiritual battle that all of us find ourselves in. God our Father, our Creator, and our Saviour, give us life- not merely existence, which the Greek distinguishes as Bios, incalculable as that gift may be. Rather it is the abundance of life that the Greeks called Zoe, meaning that vibrant, abundant, eternal life...

My dear family in Christ, The third Sunday of Lent kicks off a three-Sunday campaign of beautiful Gospel readings that the Church offers particularly to those who are preparing for Baptism at Easter. Of course, they are also perfectly applicable to all of us preparing to renew our Baptismal vows on the same day. Each of these three Gospels focuses on a particular aspect of the gift of our Baptism, that we may not even know, or may just take for granted. The account of Jesus encountering the...