For the Sixth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly There is a sentence no one says lightly: “They have forgotten me.” It is not always spoken out loud. Sometimes it is silent in an apartment where the phone has not rung for days. Sometimes it sits at the edge of a bed in a long-term care home. Sometimes it hides behind the smile of a grandmother who says, “You are busy, I understand. I know you do not have much time.” In a world more connected than ever, many people sti

The Mission of Fathers in a Catholic Context On Father’s Day, the Church does more than honour one family role. She draws our attention to a vocation that is quiet, often tired, sometimes wounded, but irreplaceable: the vocation of being a father. In the Catholic understanding, fatherhood is not merely a biological fact or a social function of providing for the family. It is a mission: to receive life as a gift, to protect it, to form it, to lead it into freedom, and to revea

This fall, our parish community in Mississauga will begin a new pastoral program: Alpha. It will not be just another item on the parish calendar. It will be an invitation: come, sit down, listen, ask, share, meet someone new — and perhaps rediscover the faith you thought you already knew. So much of parish life happens quietly. Someone comes faithfully to Holy Mass, sits in the same pew, gathers their thoughts in prayer, receives Holy Communion, and then returns to the ordina

Čudo u Ludbregu i naša vjera u Euharistiju In a small chapel in Ludbreg, according to an old Croatian tradition, everything began with a moment of doubt. It was not the doubt of someone far from the Church. It was not the doubt of an unbeliever, an enemy of religion, or a stranger to the Gospel. It was the doubt of a priest standing at the altar. In the year 1411, in the chapel of the Batthyany castle in Ludbreg, a priest was celebrating Holy Mass. As he pronounced the words