We work honestly, love our families and try not to harm anyone. But what happens when we need forgiveness, the strength to begin again or hope in the face of death? This question leads us all to the newness of the Gospel: a gift we cannot give ourselves, but can only receive. “I don’t go to church very often, but I try to be a good person.” Such a statement should not be met with ridicule or hasty judgement. Honest work, care for our families and helping our neighbours are no

Fifty years after our predecessors decided to build a Croatian Catholic parish in Mississauga, the question is no longer only what we have received from them, but what we will leave to those who come after us In 1977, Croatians living in Mississauga and the Peel region did not have this church. They had no parish hall, no park, and no spacious grounds where their children could gather. They had no place they could call their spiritual home. What they did have was the Catholic

The Assumption proclaims that the whole human person—body and soul—is called to share in God’s glory When, on the Solemnity of the Assumption, we lift our eyes to Mary, the Church is not asking us to forget the earth, but to see the human person in a new light. The Assumption is not merely a devout remembrance of the end of Mary’s earthly life. It is a proclamation of our own destiny. The Church believes that, at the completion of her earthly journey, Mary was taken up body a

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

How to Remain Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Pope Leo XIV has published his first encyclical, entitled Magnifica Humanitas — “Magnificent Humanity.” The title itself reveals the central concern of the new Pope: the human person, human dignity, the soul, conscience, freedom, and our call to communion. The encyclical bears the subtitle: “On the Preservation of the Human Person in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” It was signed on May 15, 2026, on the 135th anniv