By: Andrea Di Giovanni   Last summer the children were watching a program about the mind and religious experiences. During one segment of the show, the producers profiled a psychologist who used art to gain insight into psychology of religion. This doctor gathered a group of around 30 participants of all ages (children aged 5...Read More

By: Darren Dias, OP Like last Sunday, this Sunday we continue to wade through Matthew’s parable section, as we will again next Sunday. Last week Prakash spoke about how parables functioned for Jesus’ auditors as stories that were drawn from everyday life. The use of parables, according to James Dunn, was both a unique and...Read More

By: Prakash Lohale, OP A Dominican sister called Barbara Reed when speaking about parables says the first thing to note is that all parables start with the FAMILIAR. Jesus’ audience knew about farming and they would have been hooked by the gospel story today about sowing seed and they would be open to finding God...Read More

By: Carla M. Thomas, OP Today, sisters and brothers, the Church invites us to reflect on two familiar passages of scripture. The first reading from the prophet Zechariah offers us royal imagery for the establishment of God’s reign in Jerusalem and beyond. The context is the land of Judah where the people have lived under...Read More

By: Mrs. Andrea Di Giovanni, op President of the Dominican Laity of Canada   Today is the 13th Sunday of OT, and the 16th Sunday of Masses in Isolation. By my count, in 2020, we experienced only 10 Sundays of “regular” Mass, and so oddly enough, our weekly Zoom eucharists (or as Darren likes to...Read More

By: Daniel Cadrin, OP   Today, Jesus invites us not to fear. It is the tune of this Gospel: three times, he says to his disciples: do not fear. And this is part of his speech on the mission, the whole chapter 10 of Matthew. Jesus sends the disciples to proclaim the Good News. It...Read More

  Today we celebrate the renewal of creation when the risen Lord appears amidst his disciples and breathes life into them, as God first breathed life into Adam (Genesis 2:7). But today the last words of George Floyd—a 46 year-old father of 2 brutally murdered by police because he was black—echo in our midst: “I...Read More

By: Daniel Cadrin, O.P. We celebrate today the Mystery of the Ascension of the Lord. Just before Pentecost and after Easter and the Passion. So it is surely linked to all of this and not a separate component of our faith. It is part of the Passover, connecting earth and heaven, God and its people,...Read More