Pastor’s Corner

When I was in elementary school, one of my sister’s classmates won a colouring contest that for the prize, took his family to an exotic place, like Disney Land or Hawaii. The colouring contest was put on by Safeway. I remember the picture. It had a koala bear on it with a can of fruit cocktail. This fellow took a ruler and coloured that picture line by line. He even took a fruit cocktail can an...
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Rejoice! Rejoice! Again I say, Rejoice! A professor gave his students a writing assignment. There was a piece of paper with a single dot on it and the assignment was to comment on what you see. Each student did that from their own perspective. Each saw the dot and worked from that perspective. When the professor gave the papers back, he commented to the students that each student had written i...
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A lady was walking down the street in a populous city and she noticed two boys warming their feet over a steam vent coming from the sewers. She took the boys and bought them socks and shoes. One of the little boys said to her, “Are you God’s wife?” and she replied, “No, one of His daughters.” The little boy said, “I knew you were related somehow.” Today is the Second Sunday in Advent. How ar...
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We need to beware of the Grinch who will steal our Christmas this year. I know that Advent is upon us now and perhaps we have not gotten ready or thought of what we should do for Advent, but we can make a plan right now, today, for how we are going to really celebrate and receive the joy this Christmas as we have never celebrated it before. We have to ask ourselves the question why are we doing a...
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I have noticed that society spends a great deal of time attacking and criticizing their leaders. Leaders are blamed for every poor decision or good decision they make. It is not a surprise that few people get into politics. I have also noticed that it is easy to make a mess and very hard to clean one up. What does this have to do with the Solemnity of Christ the King? It seems that we expect our l...
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We are at the last Sunday before the feast of Christ the King. In this time as we end the liturgical year, we are always reminded of the end times. However, in my opinion, what is more pressing is our end times. Yes, that is right, we, as Christians, must live with a view of eternity as our times. Just as the Church has different seasons of rejoicing and fasting, it also has a time where we look a...
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On January 16, 1917, French mystic Claire Ferchaud wrote a letter to the president of France, Raymond Poincaire. In it, she called on him to win the war by gaining Christ’s blessing on the country. This he was to do by rejecting Freemasonry, placing the image of the Sacred Heart on the French national and battle flags, and giving images of the Sacred Heart to soldiers to wear. She underlined these...
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When I was in high school, a whole new line of clothing came out that was called, “No Fear”. It is a good slogan, however, it didn’t work. We were still afraid, insecure teenagers, whether we wore the shirt or not. Fear is a very powerful thing in our lives and it seems to be getting more and more common. There are more anxiety disorders, more medication. It is so common that most of us do not eve...
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Today I would like to do something with you to emphasis the personal nature of the Gospel. Today we are going to be Bartimaeus and we are going to meet Jesus. So I want you all to sit back and relax. Take a deep breath. Put aside what you are doing. Leave your cares behind. What would it be like to be Bartimaeus. You are sitting by a roadside. It is hot. There are people around. You are helples...
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I was recently blessed with a beautiful experience. I have had a few like it here in Quesnel, probably the most I have ever had as a priest has been here. A lady called me up and asked me to visit a non-Catholic friend who was dying. She said he was a good man and she asked if I could give him the sacraments of the sick. I asked if he had been baptized but she was not sure. I then asked if he want...
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