Our Lady of Combermere, in cahoots with God

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Mary Rose Bacani Valenti

In mid-November, my husband Richard and I and our four girls went to visit Madonna House in Combermere, Ontario. Any chance we get to visit Madonna House as a family, we take it! Madonna House is special to us. This was not our usual pilgrimage, however. We had camera equipment in the trunk and I […]

Family Living in God’s Country

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Cheridan Sanders

Cheridan Sanders chats with Andrea Lefebvre mother of 5, about Yukon-living, open-door hospitality and the call to live as a lay missionary. It takes a special kind of person to venture out and live in the Yukon. With an average temperature of -22 degrees celsius in the winter months and a population of less than […]

Finding God in our work

Monday, September 6, 2010

Matthew Harrison

As it has been for well over 120 years in Canada, this first Monday in September is Labour Day. I suspect we won’t spend a lot of time reflecting on work. We’ll be busy flipping burgers, or soaking up the last day of vacation before returning to school or the regular routine of the workplace. […]

Algonquin, interrupted

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

The disheveled man lurched along the trail, as if stumbling off the set of a George Romero movie. He wore just one hiking boot; the other ankle was swollen and purple. Half-naked—the wrong half—his bare legs were covered in deep cuts and two crimson, football-sized lesions. His wide eyes did not avert their gaze as […]

Perspectives: Recipe for Sainthood?

Friday, February 26, 2010

Jenna Murphy

Since Perspectives’ debut last month, a painstaking amount of thought has gone into each Question of the Week. In fact, as soon as we are finished filming the Friday show, we conduct an office-wide poll on which question should be featured on the next week’s episode. I am always surprised by how much discussion is […]