Reflections

A Canadian View: What are Nature’s Laws?

by Jim Paddon | May 5, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

The laws of Indigenous Peoples around the world are often referred to as “Nature’s Laws.”

Recounting Grace (Luke 24:35)

by Tom McKenna, CM | May 4, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments

“They recounted how…he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.”

Jesus Drew the Best Out of Ordinary People

by John Freund, CM | May 4, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

The Jerusalem stockbrokers would not have been very interested in Jesus’ leadership team. They liked the way rabbis were picked from among the most promising.

Mind and Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ

by Ross Dizon | May 3, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Jesus and the Father are one and of one mind and heart. And to be a Christian means to have Christ’s mind and heart. Jesus walks about in the temple area on Solomon’s Porch or Colonnade. It is a place many people go to, especially in winter. For there, due to a...

A Missionary Christmas Story for Advent Reflection

by Famvin Media Resources | Dec 16, 2022 | Congregation of the Mission, Formation, Reflections

Reflection on this story from my past history as a missionary has helped me to grasp more fully the understanding of Advent as the great mystery which leads us to the celebration of the Incarnation of Christ at Christmas. By Fr. Gregory Gay, C.M.

Should You Rethink How You Think?

by John Freund, CM | Dec 16, 2022 | Formation, Reflections

Sometimes it seems that everybody wants to change our way of thinking. That has probably always been true. But it certainly feels truer now in our polarized times.

How Do You “Encounter” a Person Who Is Homeless?

by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | Dec 15, 2022 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections

But you shouldn’t build up “talking to a homeless person” in your mind as something that’s vastly different from talking to any other kind of person.

Greatness Really Means Littleness

by Ross Dizon | Dec 24, 2019 | Formation, Reflections

Although great, Jesus becomes little for our sake. As we associate, as Jesus, with the little folks, we grasp the meaning of Christmas that greatness lies in littleness. In the beginning is the Word, the Word is with God, and is God. All things come to be through him,...