Celebrating the 74th Anniversary of St. André’s Death

Monday, January 3, 2011

Mary Rose Bacani Valenti

On Thursday, January 6th, the universal Church celebrates the 74th anniversary of the death of its first male Canadian-born saint – St. André Bessette. As you may remember, the end of last year was marked by the celebrations for St. André’s canonization on October 17th. Salt + Light also produced a documentary on his life […]

All Saints Day 2010 includes Canadian ‘homegrown’ saint

Monday, November 1, 2010

Laura Ieraci

MONTREAL — One new Canadian saint will be among those for whom Catholics will give thanks and to whom they will pray on All Saints Day this year. Saint Brother André, who founded St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, October 17, and enthusiasm for his canonization here has […]

Olympic Stadium: Homily of Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, Archbishop of Montreal

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Alessia Domanico

Photo - St. Joseph's Oratory

CCCB Plenary: Renewal of Development and Peace enters new stage

Friday, October 29, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

The annual meeting of the Canadian bishops has come to a close. And just in time—the bishops are leaving Cornwall, Ontario for nearby Montreal to celebrate the Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonization of Brother André. (S+L will broadcast the Mass live in French at 1:30 pm ET, repeating in English at 9:30 pm ET.) […]

Tonight on Perspectives: Miracles 101

Friday, October 22, 2010

Jenna Murphy

When was the last time you prayed for a miracle? Thanks to the recent canonization of St. André of Montréal, also known by many as the Miracle Man of Montréal, we’ve all been thinking lots about miracles lately. And our nation’s newspapers and media outlets are no exception. In fact, last week nearly every major […]

Canonization: Homily of the Holy Father

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Alessia Domanico

Canada has its first male Canadian-born Saint! Today’s Canonization marks a momentous occasion for Canadian Catholics and surely one that will go down in history. The Canonization of six new Saints took place this morning at the Vatican. Tens of thousands gathered for the Mass in St. Peter’s Square. Among those gathered were over 5,000 […]

Brother André: Your last chance to win a DVD of God’s Doorkeeper

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Mary Rose Bacani Valenti

Five more days and Br. André Bessette will be canonized. AND in less than three days, as part of celebrating this great event, Salt + Light will be giving away one last free DVD of our production on Br. André, God’s Doorkeeper: St. André of Montreal. Thank you to all of you who have participated […]

Remembering Mary MacKillop, Australia’s First Saint

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Mary Rose Bacani Valenti

As you know, I’ve been working the past few months on the documentary on Brother André, God’s Doorkeeper. We’ve also been looking forward here at Salt + Light to Br. André’s canonization on October 17th. To do some justice to at least one other saint to be canonized by the Church that same day (after […]

Brother André: Thank you, Br. André!

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Mary Rose Bacani Valenti

Welcome to the third of a series of blogs on the legacy of Brother André! As I mentioned in previous blogs celebrating Br. André Bessette’s canonization, a Salt + Light crew traveled to the United States in July for the documentary on Br. André. Our last stop was… Manchester, New Hampshire! We wanted to stop […]

“Pray for my conversion.”

Monday, March 12, 2007

Matthew Harrison

“Pray for my conversion.” I remember coming across these words when reading about Brother Andre Bessette, the pious porter who was known as the miracle maker of Mount Royal, in Quebec. It struck me as an odd statement. Brother Andre, proclaimed blessed in May 1982, was a very holy man. How could a living saint […]