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Reflections on the Psalms: 143
If there is one book of the Bible that I feel is too often underrated, it’s the book of Psalms. That’s right. While it’s true that many people will have a favourite Psalm or a verse from the Psalms I don’t think any one of us truly appreciates what it is. In the Psalms, we…
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Perseverance
I’ve often been asked why I became Catholic. So often was I asked that late last year, I wrote a series of blog posts that detailed certain aspects of my intellectual journey towards the faith. This series remains unfinished, not because I have nothing else to say, but because I didn’t feel inspired to write…
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I Hate Sand
I hope that everyone had their fair share of pancakes yesterday. Sadly, I didn’t even eat one: I spent my morning at Service Ontario and my evening at work. You might say that I was getting a head start on my Lenten penance, which actually began earlier today on this Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is…
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The Pursuit of Holiness
What does it mean for something to be holy? As part of an inductive exercise meant to answer the question, a professor of mine asked the class to picture the holiest person they knew, and to describe how holiness was made present in them. I have been incredibly fortunate to have met many saintly people,…
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Unity in Diversity?
As we say in the Creed, “I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.” In the first semester of my MDiv, this idea of catholicity has repeatedly come up, which has forced me to consider its meaning more intensely. What does it mean for the Church to be catholic? The easy answer: “universal”. The…
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What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me!)
Recently I finished reading Neil Gaiman’s children’s horror novel, Coraline. I remember seeing the movie as a child, and suffice it to say, it left me petrified. I’ve watched many horror movies since, but it’s undeniable: that stop-motion horror flick still gives me the creeps. Personally, I found the movie far scarier than the book,…
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What I Learned in ’22
Last last year, my spiritual director recommended I read God’s Voice Within written by Fr Mark Thibodeaux SJ. I practically devoured it, and since then I have been adamant in saying that this is the book I wish I’d read earlier in the year because, for me, 2022 was a year of discernment in epic…
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The City of God
Recently, a friend and I were caught up in discussion about the temptation of many Christians to dismiss cities as hotbeds of degeneracy, cesspools of Satan, and wretched hives of scum and villainy. (That last one’s from Star Wars!) It would be much better, in many minds, to retreat into the country, and avoid such…
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Choosing Heaven
This country was no use to him at all. Everyone here had ‘survived’ already. Nobody took the least interest in the question. There was nothing more to prove. His occupation was clean gone. Of course if he would only have admitted that he’d mistaken the means for the end and had a good laugh at…
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