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One of the most common questions people ask me is: “How can I pray better? How can I hear God and experience God in my prayer?” The best definition for prayer that I can come up with is this: “prayer is an encounter with God”. This means that whatever we do in our prayer life should make us feel like we have had an encounter with God. Think of what it is to encounter another human being. It is to go beyond just speaking to someone, or just spending time with someone. The

In order to discover the best way for us to be with one another, we should first notice the unique way in which God chose to be with us. To be with someone in their joy and in their suffering is the greatest expression of compassion. Through the act of the incarnation God reveals Himself as a compassionate God. This means that God does not begin to show Himself by focusing on His uniqueness, how God is different from us; God begins by becoming one of us and, in so doing, by f

We are back to Ordinary Time…in the Church and in our lives. Christmas and New Year’s festivities are over, decorations are packed away and those lovely extra days off are but a distant memory. But doesn’t ordinary mean - the usual…the same old same old? And might one become complacent with the ordinary? Of course, that is not the meaning, nor the intent in a liturgical sense, and never should we regard our spiritual lives as ordinary either. So how do we handle ordinary ti

A song came to mind recently when my husband and I listened to a news story on the CBC radio program As It Happens. The story concerned a Muslim community in Arkansas that had been vandalized in October of 2016. Several vandals spray painted swastikas and curse words on the exterior of the mosque. ‘Go Home’ was emblazoned on the windows. One of the vandals, sentenced to community service and a hefty fine was facing six years in prison because he was unable to keep up the paym