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From the Editor

I want to wish you a very blessed Advent, and a Merry Christmas. It’s been another year full of ups…

The Very Rev’d Catherine Short (left) and her friend and fellow priest, the Rev’d Tanya White, with the rafts and “one paddle each” that they had on their journey down the Humber River this past September.

Lessons Learned on The Humber River

We often speak of the difference between ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality.’ As an individual ordained to serve the Lord and the…

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Christmas—Both Spiritual and Cultural

Christmas is a word that has cultural as well as spiritual meaning. Store shelves are beginning to fill with toys…

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Faith

When I was growing up in Chance Cove, Trinity Bay, I decided I wanted to become a doctor. At the…

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In The Beginning God

The simple statement: “In the beginning God” (Genesis 1:1a) suggests at least three negative statements. First, it denies atheism. Atheism is…

Two wooden cups, used by Fr. Jonathan's paternal grandparents in the Holy Lands

Generation to Generation

Over the years, I have watched a lot of grandparents take their grandchildren to church with them. Often, they do…

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22 Points For Consideration

How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My…

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No Person Should Be Homeless

The season of winter doesn’t officially begin until December 21st, but by late October or early November, we are beginning…

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What Am I Doing?

That’s something that I often wonder: what am I doing as the editor of a tri-diocesan newspaper? I’m especially thinking…

Generations of travellers, historians, and pilgrims have worn these two parallel tracks into the ground on the way to Mistaken Point, NL, to see the fossils there, where you are able to stand on what was an ocean floor almost 600 million years ago.

An Extraodinary Pilgrimage

In August of this year, my wife and I made our way to Trepassey. We checked in to the local…