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...
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. ...
