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by Jean Allen So, Jesus just finished shutting up the Sadducees about life after death and along comes some Pharisees to test him some more. They ask him what the greatest commandment is and we all know his answer. His answer was in no way inflammatory; in fact, it was pretty mainstream in the Jewish religion having been given to them in Deuteronomy, which…
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Dear friends, We have six items to share with you: 1. Prayers for the Holy FatherWe ask you to join the faithful across Canada and the world in praying for the swift and complete recovery of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV following his surgery on October 13, 2026. To read the release, including a letter…
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by Jean Allen – It has been customary to assume the king in the parable of the wedding banquet is God but many scholars question this assumption. While the king does demonstrate some lovely Godlike actions (inviting the poor and downtrodden after the rude rejection by the well-to-do), the parable also demonstrates some actions that…
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Dear friends, We have six items to share with you today: 2026 National Day of Truth and Reconciliation – Joint Statement of the Canadian Catholic Indigenous Council and Our Lady of Guadalupe CircleFor this year’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, the CCCB’s Canadian Catholic Indigenous Council has made a joint statement with Our Lady…
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by Jean Allen In this parable where the tenants, who refuse to give the landowner his produce, beat and kill the landowner’s representatives and end up murdering his son, it’s easy to assume the landowner represents God. Not so. In Jesus’s day, heavy taxation, debts and crop failures forced many peasant farmers to lose their…
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by Jean Allen At first glance, this Gospel parable seems to be just encouraging us to do God’s will rather than saying we will but never getting around to it. Fair enough. That’s important. But Jesus wasn’t just giving a lesson in general to his followers…
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Dear friends, We have seven items to share with you today: National Day for Truth and ReconciliationNext Wednesday, September 30, marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. As we continue the legacy of Pope Francis’ Penitential Pilgrimage across Canada, we are reminded of the Holy Father’s hope that “Christians and civil society in this…
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Dear friends, We have six items for you today: CCCB The Collection for the Needs of the Church in CanadaThe Collection for the Needs of the Church in Canada will take place next weekend. It helps support the mission of our diocese and joins the gifts of Catholics across the country in supporting the shared…
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– by Jean Allen The world operates on a certain sense of justice and this kind of justice is challenged in today’s Gospel of the landowner who paid the workers who were hired last the same as the workers who were hired early in the day. The world’s sense of justice is comparative and often…
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Dear friends, We have five items to share with you today: Beloved Catholic Women’s Retreat 2026Women are invited to the 8th Annual Beloved Catholic Women’s Retreat, taking place November 13 to 15 at beautiful Camp Homewood on Quadra Island. This year’s theme, Mysterium: Behold the Lamb of God, welcomes guest speaker Sr. Damien Marie of…
