by Serviam Ministries | Oct 25, 2011 | Blog, Faith, History
Written By: David Gilbert In 1903, a group of Jesuits and lay people in Quebec adopted Carillon-Sacré-Coeur as the national flag of French Canadians. Very quickly, other committees were set up throughout French Canada, from Quebec, Northern Ontario, to New Brunswick,...
by Serviam Ministries | Oct 23, 2011 | Blog, Catholic Living, Confession/ Forgiveness, Current Events, Faith, Prayer
Written By: Mike McCann It’s been all over the news: the death of Muammar Gaddafi, former Libyan dictator guilty of the murder of thousands of innocents under his regime. A disturbing video was released early Thursday morning showing the capture and apparent death of...
by Serviam Ministries | Oct 22, 2011 | Blog, Catholic Living, Faith
Written By: Lawrence Lam “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”- Proverbs 22:6 This is the cutest future-priest photo you will find online. Have you been saying your rosary for vocations? Your prayers...
by Serviam Ministries | Oct 21, 2011 | Blog, Current Events, Faith
Written By: David Gilbert There is no denying that there is a battle within the Church over authentic Catholicism. This authentic Catholicism is not “liberal” or “conservative” because Catholicism is neither liberal nor conservative. Authentic Catholicism adheres to...
by Serviam Ministries | Oct 19, 2011 | Blog, Current Events
Written By: David Gilbert It is unavoidable. You hear about it on TV, facebook, blogs, newspapers and radio. People are occupying the financial districts while protesting against the 1% of the rich. There are several things that make me very uncomfortable about this...
by Serviam Ministries | Oct 17, 2011 | Blog, Catholic Living, Confession/ Forgiveness
Written By: David Gilbert A very moving and inspirational sermon on how we should look at ourselves and live as the people of God by an Evangelical minister, Leonard Revenhill. Judgement Seat of Christ ______________________ If publishing article online please...
by Serviam Ministries | Oct 15, 2011 | Blog, Church Teaching, Marriage/ Family, Men, Sin, Women
Written By: David Gilbert More and more young people (and older) are shacking up instead of choosing to get married. There are many reasons for this: financial, convenience, “love”. I would like to camp out of the “love” aspect. Do people who cohabitate really love...
by Serviam Ministries | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog, Catholic Living, Confession/ Forgiveness, Prayer, Scripture/ Bible
Written By: Jennifer Cauchi The Gospel reading for this past Sunday has always left me confused. In Matthew 22:1-14, we hear a parable of a king who holds a wedding banquet for his son. [Okay, so far so good.] The invited guests are asked twice—the second time...
by Serviam Ministries | Oct 7, 2011 | Blog, Catholic Living, Church Teaching
Written By: David Gilbert With some of my friends and co-workers I have had many conversations about Christianity and Catholicism. One of the most common comments given is that it is a religion with a bunch of rules that is constantly saying “no” to anything that...
by Serviam Ministries | Oct 4, 2011 | Blog, Church Teaching
Written by: Fr. Jason Kuntz In June, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a document entitled “Pastoral Ministry to Young People with Same-Sex Attraction.” At that time I was busy preparing to move to a new parish – I saved the file to be read later. ...