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Behold the God that Loves You
Dear Theophilus,My wife, son and I spent the weekend in London (Ontario) recently with my wife’s family to celebrate her niece’s first birthday. With the 3-hour drive through rush-hour traffic on...
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The Real Meaning of Advent
Dear Theophilus,As Advent approaches Catholics the world over are called to make preparations for Christmas. Like the world over, those preparations usually involve making plans to travel, creating...
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Listening in Silence
Dear Theophilus,The Advent season calls us to stop and take the time to reflect on the Saviour’s coming at Christmas. Finding a moment or two of silence in December to contemplate on this great...
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Being a Disciplined Disciple
Dear Theophilus,Ask most elite athletes what got them to the pinnacle of their sport, many will tell you that it was hard work and perseverance. In short – discipline.It takes a certain kind of...
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Rediscover Catholicism - Marginalia
Dear Theophilus,I’ve recently finished reading Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly, and was completely floored by what I read between its covers. I bought the book from my parish who had ordered...
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Theotokos - Mary the Mother of God
Dear Theophilus,On January 1st we celebrate the Feast of Mary the Mother of God. This is one of the most beautiful feasts of the liturgical calendar, but for our Protestant brothers in Christ, also...
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What is Full and Active Participation in the Liturgy?
Dear Theophilus,Lately I’ve come to enjoy reading The Eye of the Tiber. This light-hearted blog takes a look at some of the more un-Catholic activities that seem to bubble to the surface from time to...
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Engaging Fully in Mass
Dear Theophilus, I recently wrote about how the call of Vatican II to for the faithful to participate fully andactively in the liturgy has been misunderstood as a call for the laity to take over the...
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On the Catholic Church and Homosexuality
Dear Theophilus, From time to time I find myself attending an education workshop outside of my school. In one of the rooms where these workshops are held there’s a poster of a cute baby with the...
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Rediscover Catholicism Revisited
Dear Theophilus,Just before Christmas I posted a list of my marginalia from Matthew Kelly’s book, Rediscover Catholicism. A number of people let me know that they enjoyed this peek into the wonderful...
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Putting on our Sunday Best
Dear Theophilus,When it comes to special occasions, we’re often told that we need to dress in our Sunday Best. Unfortunately, I’m not sure if Sunday Best is still what people take it to mean. As I...
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Imitating Christ by Meeting our Dominical Obligation
Dear Theophilus, This past weekend I was going through my notebook from the Catholic teacher education course I took last summer when I came across a quote from one of the instructors I had written...
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Finding a Place for Prayer
Dear Theophilus, Personal prayer is an integral part of developing our Catholic spirituality and deepening our relationship with God through Jesus Christ. As St. Alphonsus Ligouri stated: “He who...
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Defending Catholic Education
Dear Theophilus,An Ontario court recently ruled in favour of a parent who wanted their children who are enrolled in a publicly funded Catholic high school to be exempted from religious education. In...
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Benedict XVI - Thank You, Danke, Grazie, Merci
Dear Theophilus,This morning, Pope Benedict XVI announced his abdication from the Papacy. I'm sure that this will be a happy day for many liberal Catholics, as well as many who like to attack the...
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Getting Ready for Lent
Dear Theophilus, Today’s the day that most Catholic’s panic. It’s the day before Ash Wednesday, they need to decide on something to give up for Lent. Many will fall back on the old standby’s:...
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Facing Temptation - Turning our Humanity Towards God
Dear Theophilus, Lent has only begun and already I feel the temptation to break with my Lenten promise. I shouldn’t be surprised really, my whole life I’ve noticed that the more I deny myself of...
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The Burn of God's Love
Dear Theophilus,The other day, I was asked for my opinion on what heaven and hell are like. As is par for the course in my classes, my answer seemed to leave my interlocutor more confused than when we...
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Re-sensitizing Ourselves to Sin
Dear Theophilus,I was listening to a talk by Matthew Kelly published by Lighthouse Catholic Media the other day and I was struck by the imagery he used to describe how our souls can become...
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The Living Rosary
Dear Theophilus,Over the past two weeks I’ve had the opportunity on a few different occasions to take part in a very unique experience: The Living Rosary.The premise of The Living Rosary is quite...
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