 | I acknowledge and thank the Lkwungen People for allowing me to live, pray, work, and play on their lands. I am deeply sorry for the injustices inflicted upon the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Turtle Island by the complicity of Governments & settlers, including the Catholic Church, in the colonialism inherent in the Indian Act and Residential Schools including racism, neglect, many forms of abuse & cultural genocide. I commit to work for truth, healing and reconciliation. |  |
1. PRAYER
 Ilia Delio, OSF |  Nina Hirlaender, OFS |
I, who am neither a theolgian nor scientist, have just finished reading Ilia Delio’s The Hours of The Universe - Reflections on God, Science, and the Human Journey and listening to podcasts on Mystical Prayer by Nina Hirlaender. I immediately recalled Ilia Delio’s Franciscan Prayer in which on p24 she mentioned Bonaventure’s 13 steps to descend into ourselves. ... read more
Nina’s podcasts are very interesting, personal and informative and I highly recommend them. George and I thought it worth promoting them and we have included her link to the podcasts called Holy Rebels. The title reflects the rebellious spiritedness of the saints and those who dare venture into a direct relationship with the Mystery of God. Here is the link to her podcast.
Nina’s podcasts are very interesting, personal and informative and I highly recommend them. George and I thought it worth promoting them and we have included her link to the podcasts called Holy Rebels. The title reflects the rebellious spiritedness of the saints and those who dare venture into a direct relationship with the Mystery of God. Here is the link to her podcast.
2. SHARE LENT 2023
 | As background let me say that Robert Calderisi, a former director of the World Bank and Montréal Loyola College Rhodes scholar wrote in The New York Times, 29 Dec 2013: “As a result of its work in basic health and education — and despite its obtuse views on birth control — in the last 50 years the [RC] church has probably lifted more people out of poverty than any other civic institution in history.” Share Lent : Share Lent is an annual highlight for D&P. It is when the bishops of Canada encourage the faithful to give to Development and Peace, especially through the collection on Solidarity Sunday, the fifth Sunday of Lent. This Lent, let us walk in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in the Global South to Create Hope, and Stand for the Land. ... read more |
3. SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST:
HOW WE MUST TAX THE SUPER-RICH NOW
TO FIGHT INEQUALITY
We are living through an unprecedented moment of multiple crises. Tens of millions more people are facing hunger. Hundreds of millions more face impossible rises in the cost of basic goods or heating their homes. Climate breakdown is crippling economies and seeing droughts, cyclones and floods force people from their homes. ... read more
4. “WONDER AND AWE:
HOW ECO-SPIRITUALITY CAN INSPIRE US IN 2023”
This engaging conversation with Dr. Erin Lothes, author of Inspired Sustainability: Planting Seeds for Action and Senior Manager of the Laudato Si’ Animators program, explores how: -A sense of wonder and awe can support your concrete commitments to integral ecology -Ecospirituality connects you and your Catholic faith with the environment -Engaging your head, heart, and hands will make you a better practitioner of environmental sustainability -To prayerfully discern your own personal Laudato Si´Action Platform goals for the upcoming year.
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5. UKRAINIAN MAJOR ARCHBISHOP SHEVCHUK
The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, has warned against moves by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government to outlaw Orthodox communities linked to Moscow, and urged his countrymen to "give Russians a chance to repent."
6. RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS - A Different Perspective
Reviewers of the book praised author Terry Glavin for giving voice to 35 former students, most of whom attended the school in the 1940s and ’50s, and for presenting a comprehensive, balanced, and revealing portrait of an Indian residential school, a portrait that was neither entirely negative nor entirely positive.
7. SYNOD - Catholic Church must welcome all as equals to be truly 'synodal'
Sexual and spiritual abuse and the need for reform in the Church: the episcopate in Italy “stubbornly continues not really to want to investigate the real extent of the abuses”.
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5. UKRAINIAN MAJOR ARCHBISHOP SHEVCHUK
The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, has warned against moves by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government to outlaw Orthodox communities linked to Moscow, and urged his countrymen to "give Russians a chance to repent."
6. RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS - A Different Perspective
Reviewers of the book praised author Terry Glavin for giving voice to 35 former students, most of whom attended the school in the 1940s and ’50s, and for presenting a comprehensive, balanced, and revealing portrait of an Indian residential school, a portrait that was neither entirely negative nor entirely positive.
7. SYNOD - Catholic Church must welcome all as equals to be truly 'synodal'
Sexual and spiritual abuse and the need for reform in the Church: the episcopate in Italy “stubbornly continues not really to want to investigate the real extent of the abuses”.
DOWNLOAD ANDREW'S FEBRUARY BLOG
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