Reign of Christ

By the Rev Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD. Next week in our faith year we will enter a season of deep quiet and reflection. A time of beginning and waiting. Today, like all endings, there is

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Faithfulness Will Never Cease

Sister Doreen’s Reflections  November Anglican Church Calendar Scripture:  “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8:22 One of the first

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My Bible and James

By the Rev. Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD. Deuteronomy 4.1-2, 6-9   Psalm 15James 1.17-27                                                                                   Mark 7.1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Way back in the 1960s I was in graduate school at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. I had

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The Treasures of the Heart

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Last week’s reflection of a good and noble heart opened the door to thinking more deeply about the role of the heart in our experiences. Despite quantum physics and other fields, we

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A Noble and Good Heart

Sister Doreen’s Reflections The September Anglican Church of Canada Calendar scripture reflection is “But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and

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The Real Art of Conversation

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Sometime ago Sister Margaret Ruth, who is our librarian at the Convent, gave me a quote from a book she was reading that caused a smile and a chuckle at the profound

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You Got This! Be Your Best Today!

Sister Doreen’s Reflections One of the thoughts that came to mind to ponder when I thought about the remark ‘you got this’ was that it faces us with creative responsibility. We are not asked to

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Life is Short – Make It Sweet!

Sister Doreen’s Reflections “Life is short- make it sweet!” This is quite a popular saying, used in so many different contexts and when I came across it, I found myself thinking that it was also

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