YouCat: I Believe in Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God
For many years, Archbishop Richard Smith posted weekly reflections at a blog titled The Reason for Our Hope (these reflections can now be found on our Archdiocesan website.) The title…
An OGRE To help you grow closer to God
The Following represents my talk notes from the closing keynote talk at the Prince George Diocesan Youth Conference on April 22nd, 2018 As we come to the end of our…
(Be)Loved by the Son
In the first part of this series, we took a look at what it means to be loved by our Heavenly Father. In this second post, we’re going to take…
The Cross = a Broken Heart?
Today, the Church celebrates Good Friday. It seems odd to me to call the day Jesus suffered, died, and was buried “good.” Because on this day Jesus shed his blood,…
Why did Jesus have to die?
In the Bible (and in the biblical era), the concept of “sonship” is an important one. A son is more than an heir to the possessions of his father –…
Lead Us Not Into Temptation…
For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin….
Audacious Faith: “He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit”
Scripture begins with the story of a man and a woman saying a definitive “no” to their creator, rejecting not only God’s one direction to them (don’t eat the fruit!),…
The New Covenant
The Bible is a book that can be difficult to make sense of – which is why having a mental map of some sort to make sense of it is…
God’s Covenant with Adam
The Bible is a book that can be difficult to make sense of – which is why having a mental map of some sort to make sense of it is…