Padre’s Corner – A Salute to our Peacekeepers
It was a great honour and a privilege to participate in National Peacekeepers’ Day on 9 August. The commemorative ceremony was held at Peacekeepers...
Fingerprints / Empreintes digitales
It has been a long few months this past winter season. We have hit record low temperatures, it seemed to snow almost...
Meeting Nijmegen’s guardians of memory / À la rencontre des gardiens de mémoire...
“Those who are dead never left.
The Dead are not under the earth.
They are in the fading fire.
They are in the weeping grasses....
Spring – A season of hope / Le printemps – Une saison d’espoir
Spring is just around the corner.
The temperature is rising; the sun is shining; the grass is getting greener...
School’s out! L’école est finie!
On 26 April 1972, Warner Brothers released Alice Cooper’s classic rock song, “School’s Out”. This was one of my favourite songs while...
Stepping Through an Open Door
Posting season is upon us and for many of us that are moving, this is a time of stress and anxiety. If you purchased...
How are your quads? / Comment vont tes quads?
What comes to mind when you’re asked that question? Are you thinking graphs and equations, core processors in a computer, living in...
May the strongest lose! / Que les plus forts perdent!
I am reading a very interesting book called, “L’entraide, l’autre loi de la jungle” (Mutual aid, the other law of the jungle) co-written by...
How are you, really?
A number of years ago, I was greeting parishioners arriving at church. When one of our seniors walked in, I greeted him with a...
Time to Just Be
A friend and colleague of mine posted a thought on Facebook regarding the holiday season. It read, “I don’t know who (else)...