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Pulpitations

11/17/2024

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If, one year into the Diocesan Renewal, you are still searching for a way to jump start your spiritual life, consider picking up Fr. Edmund Vargas’ book of reflections. Fr. Edmund is the pastor of St. Michael’s in Calgary and his first book “Pulpitations” (2024) boasts a catchy title, original art by Calgarian Scott Kelly, and years of wisdom condensed between its soft covers. Each of the essays is only a page long and written in understandable - if occasionally eclectic - words. They are actually homily notes from Fr. Edmund’s many sermons. Over the years he polished his presentations and now offers them for us to ponder. If there is any drawback to this plan, it is in the overabundance of ideas within a single essay. 

Topics range from scripture stories to liturgical seasons, each story bearing an intriguing title, and all clearly laid out in the table of contents. This layout is ideal for readers to browse and select something relevant for their day. He has included amusing anecdotes, as well as quotations, both religious and secular, to keep the pace lively.
As interesting as the contents of “Pulpitations” are, the story of how the book came to fruition is even more engaging. In April 2024, on the occasion of his 45th anniversary of ordination, Fr. Edmund was urged by Jim Jarrell, an active parishioner at St. Michael’s, to compile the knowledge he’d gained over his decades of faithful service. Jim offered to raise funds to publish these thoughts and even wrote the book’s foreword. “If Jim didn’t come forward I wouldn’t have done this,” Fr. Edmund said. After sifting through his notes, Fr. Edmund selected just over 100 sermons and proceeded to translate and summarize them for a different audience. It helped that he had experience as a magazine writer and editor from his university days and beyond. A scant forty days later the book was finished. “I considered it my Lenten practice,” Fr. Edmund laughed. “It’s not like a novel,” he cautioned, suggesting that readers should take time to pray and reflect on, say, one piece a day.

Fr. Edmund’s goals for the book are modest. He plans to offer it to his parish but also make it available to others who may be nostalgic for his approachable style of teaching. “People who’ve known me over generations might share it with their children”, Fr. Edmund posits, reminiscing about people he met early in his career who now have children and grandchildren raised in the faith. For others, the power of any Christian writing is in its ability to let us hear the voice of God and respond. To paraphrase Fr. Edmund, “Your thoughts become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your life, and your life becomes your eternity.”       

Written by Alice Matisz for Faithfully. ​Alice lives in Lethbridge with her husband Don. She is a member of All Saints Parish where she volunteers to bring the Eucharist to a long term care home (pre-Covid). She enjoys reading, writing, baking and painting. 
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“Pulpitations” costs $20 and is available at St. Michael’s Parish in Calgary or by emailing [email protected] ​
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Fear not

11/17/2024

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Meet Friar Dan Gurnick, OFM, of Mount St. Francis in Cochrane—a Franciscan priest who found his calling after a career in architecture and a life-changing trip to Peru. He made his solemn profession in 2009, was ordained in 2010, and now serves on the retreat team at Mount St. Francis while also guiding others as the Vocation Director for the Franciscans of Canada.
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In his book, Fear Not: I Have Overcome the World, Friar Dan offers a sometimes humorous, often thought-provoking autobiographical reflection on how fear impacts our lives. Drawing on personal experiences, he explores how God meets us in our fears and invites us to move forward with trust, knowing Christ walks with us. As he says, “The past few years have weighed us down with anxieties and worries, but God tells us, ‘Fear Not!’”
Fr. Dan's book is an easy read but still gives a ​person a lot to think about. For example the difference between good fear and bad fear. He uses a lot of examples from his own life so the book is very relatable. I highly recommend it, especially to young people. He has lived a life that they could see themselves in." ~Alice Murray
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"Fear Not: I
 Have Overcome the World" is available for purchase at The Mount's bookstore (Cochrane) and on Amazon.
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Set aside for God's purpose

11/16/2024

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In July, Pope Francis published a letter on the important role literature plays in priestly formation; it develops an imaginative empathy that enables clergy to see how others see.

​When the letter came out, my family and I were watching the 4-part mini-series Stories of a Generation, featuring Pope Francis (2021, available on Netflix). In one episode, the acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese reads a moving passage from Marilynne Robinson’s book Gilead to his daughter. Over the past couple of years of diaconal formation, I have read a lot of non-fiction theology, but I had not read a novel for pleasure in years. So, prompted by the Pope and one of the greatest film makers of all time, I took the nudge and found a copy of Gilead at the library.
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Gilead is an achingly beautiful memoir of aging pastor John Ames, who married and had a son late in life. Ames’ advanced age and worsening heart condition means he will never know his son as an adult or be able to guide him into manhood. The novel unfolds as a series of diary entries Ames writes to his young son to share with him their family history and posthumously guide him in living a good and holy life.
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Ames embodies the “profound spiritual affinity between priest and poet” that Pope Francis refers to, and in Ames, Robinson has created an insightful sage whose diary reads like the Book of Proverbs. One line continues to resonate with me: “Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apart so that the holiness of time can be experienced.” 
I started to see “set asides” everywhere I looked, awakening in me a new fullness of life.

Sunday is set aside as holy to remind us that all our fleeting time comes from and belongs to Him. We set things apart not to divide the world into what is God’s and what is not God’s, but to remind us that all is His. God commands us to honour our mother and father, Ames writes to his son, “because every human being is worthy of honour,” and singling out the mother and father teaches us the conscious discipline of respecting the dignity of every person made in God’s image.

During Mass, we set aside a portion of our money and time, reminding us that we are offering back to God all the gifts he has given us. This conception of setting aside provides a valuable insight into the ancient symbol of the covenant, circumcision. The men of the covenant set aside a part of flesh and blood to remind them that every necessary and pleasurable rhythm of life belongs to God, as does all they give birth to.  

When entering the Church, the small containers of holy water (meaning water set aside for God’s purpose) remind me that clean water – a necessary element for life that I too often take for granted – is a gift from God, and that by my baptism, I too am set aside for God’s purpose.
Being set aside for God’s purpose unlocks our identities as a “chosen portion.” St. Clement wrote to the Corinthians, “We are a portion of the Holy One,” so “let us approach him in holiness of soul, raising up to him hands pure and undefiled, out of love for our good and merciful Father who made us a chosen portion for himself.” Our status as God’s chosen portion ultimately frames and guides our actions with other people. Ames puts it this way: “people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness, but because God their father loves them.” As a portion of the Holy One, we are commanded to love others as He loved us because they are also chosen portions. 
​Pope Francis views literature as vital for formation because it educates the imagination and attunes us to hear the Voice that speaks through many voices, training us to hear the diverse needs in our community. Gilead successfully delivers what Pope Francis aptly describes as “a vision of the true and the good that discloses itself as beauty.” So, take the Pope’s advice, which is very similar to the call that prompted St. Augustine’s conversion: “Take up and read!” 

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Written by Jason Openo for Faithfully. ​Written by Jason Openo for Faithfully. Jason is a permanent diaconate candidate who attends St. Patrick's Parish with his family in Medicine Hat. ​
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Can a fiction novel evangelize?

9/19/2022

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The Search for Sir John Franklin in the Arctic (François Musin, 1820-1888)
It all started with a ghostly face peering through the melting permafrost of an exhumed grave located in the Canadian arctic, the face of John Torrington.  I saw his picture for the first time while reading, Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Gieger when I was studying in university. John was a member of the doomed Franklin Expedition, sent by the Royal Navy in 1845 to find a passage through Canada’s arctic to the Far East, bringing glory and riches to the British Empire.  The expedition ended in catastrophe, all 129 men dying due to a mix of disease, malnutrition, scurvy, starvation, and accidental poisoning.  The human drama of the Franklin Expedition has fascinated me for most of my life, and as I’ve gotten older the thought of these men, and the suffering they must have endured has only tugged at my heart more fully.  

I’ve been a consumer of Catholic literature for years, both fiction and non-fiction, so when I decided to challenge myself to write a novel it was clear to me that Catholic themes would be at the heart of the story that I would tell. I just needed to come up with the story! As a husband and father of five kids, I thought about sharing my family experiences, to write about what I know most intimately, but the pull of writing a story, a novel, was more powerful.  Then I thought of that face! 

Writing a novel was a “bucket list” thing for me. I wanted to discover if I had what it takes to write a full book, one good enough to get published. I also dreamed of looking at my bookshelf and seeing a spine looking back at me with my name on it! I’ve always loved reading, I consume books constantly, both novels, mostly historical fiction, but also every new Stephen King creation that is released, as well as non-fiction works of history. As the aforementioned Mr. King calls his fans, I am definitely a constant reader! 

So, I would write a novel about the Franklin Expedition, but it would have Catholic themes embedded throughout it. In planning the book, I decided to focus on characters, because that is where much of the mystery of the event lies. Most of the expedition’s sailors are little known to history, so I could create backstories for them and imagine plausible events during their time stuck in the ice. I picked four names off the crew list and attached them to four basic personalities of fellow teachers I work with at St. Joseph Collegiate and worship with at St. Mary’s here in Brooks. Then, I imagined they were the last four survivors, living their last eight days at Starvation Cove, the most southerly point the crew advanced during their desperate death march south in search of deliverance, hence the name of the novel. I imagined their physical decline and what they must have had to endure as they slowly succumbed to the harsh arctic elements. I also thought about the spiritual reckoning they inevitably faced, and that is where our Catholic faith would become part of the story. 

So many people, even my own teenaged children, ask me questions about God and His Church. They ask why bad things happen to good people. Why evil can exist in a world created by God. Why Christians can seem so indifferent to suffering, or even worse, be the cause of suffering. In the novel, the main character struggles with these questions his entire life. This character is Joseph Andrews, a real crew member of the expedition, a name I took off the actual crew list.  It is also the name of my oldest son, Joseph Andrew. The character is a good man, honest, forthright, charitable, but disturbed at the hypocrisy he sees in the world. Disturbed by people who say one thing but do another. Before he dies, he finds some heavenly answers to these questions, allowing him to be at peace with his past and hopeful for eternity. 

Catholic fiction can be a powerful tool for evangelization. It has been for me. A story written that can inspire the reader in their faith is a gift indeed. I have been blessed to read all the novels of Michael O’Brien over the years, arguably Canada’s greatest Catholic novelist and author of Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, among other great works. Every time I read one of his books, my faith deepens. The publisher of Starvation Cove, Ottawa’s Justin Press, is closely associated with Michael O’Brien and has published several of his works. I could not be more honoured to be associated with such authentically faithful people, people who have impacted my own Catholic faith so fundamentally.

I was speaking to a friend the other day who has read Starvation Cove. She is fellow teacher at St. Joseph’s and parishioner at St. Mary’s. I had asked her a few weeks ago what her favorite part of the book was, and she had a difficult time answering the question. She said she had indeed enjoyed the book, had read it quickly, but there was something about it that she needed to think about and would get back to me when she could more clearly articulate what she wanted to share. She approached me and recounted that it had finally come to her. She shared that what she most liked about Starvation Cove is that the character of Joseph Andrews reminded her of her husband. A good man, a great man actually, who struggles with his faith. Her husband is looking forward to reading the novel. With God’s grace, I pray that Starvation Cove may inspire this man as works of Catholic fiction have inspired me throughout my life. I’m looking forward to listening to what he has to say when he’s done.  ​

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Written by Ben Galeski for Faithfully. Ben Galeski is a Social Studies teacher at St. Joseph’s Collegiate, Brooks, and a parishioner of St. Mary's Parish in Brooks. He is a father of five and a former Catholic school administrator. 
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To read the most recent review of Starvation Cove from our diocesan seminarian Samuel O'Ejeregbe, click here.
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A book review: Sanctify Your Daily Life

5/1/2019

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​“Work is man's original vocation,” wrote St. Josemaria Escriva. “It is a blessing from God, and those who consider it a punishment are sadly mistaken.”[1] This theological reality is communicated to us early within scripture. In the second chapter of Genesis, prior to the fall of Adam, we are told that the Lord “took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to till it and keep it.”[2]

Yet in our contemporary, modernized society, it is even rare for farmers to push ploughs with any regularity. Instead, as technology has expanded, more and more people have found themselves buried under a perpetual deluge of emails and invisibly tethered to their employers through their smartphones. Work as we know it bears little resemblance to the horticultural endeavor blessed in Eden. The passage of time seems to have transported the ennobling task assigned to Adam from the idyllic backdrop of Eden to the figurative Jerusalem of the industrial revolution as described by Blake: “And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?”[3]

Given the world in which we live, it is easy to understand why many often assume that the sin of Adam has deformed the nature of work in its very essence. The disparity between what was and what is has inclined many to think of work as something which ought to be overcome in order to pursue greater spiritual endeavours.

The Catechism, however, teaches us that “work is for man, not man for work.”[4]
Only through fulfilling both the social and spiritual duties attached to work do will fully cooperate with God’s plan. Rather than presenting a stumbling block to spiritual growth, work offers us solid steps upon which we can ascend closer to the Lord.

To engage in work in a way that will allow an individual harvest its spiritual fruits, one requires a deep understanding of the purpose and nature of work. In “Sanctify Your Daily Life: How to Transform Work into a Source of Strength, Holiness and Joy”, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski ably guides the reader by clarifying misunderstandings relating to the theology of work and offering concrete spiritual advice in everyday contexts.

Mentor and friend to St. John Paul the Great, Wyszynski demonstrates a personal understanding of the practical challenges of work: monotonous tasks, limited resources, intensifying responsibilities, time constraints, office politics, etc. Writing in post-war Poland, he also anticipated the challenges that have accompanied technological change, warning that as human work moves from a creative endeavor to one of procedural execution, technology descends from a “triumph of the human brain to being its enemy.”[5]

While systematically describing the spiritual virtues which are developed in work, Wyszynski also offers profound insights into the accompanying psychological and sociological hurdles which are present within our hearts, our minds and our work communities. As such, the text reads as a stimulating blend of both spiritual treatise and a business ethics guidebook.

Guided by Cardinal Wyszynski, the reader will come to understand that “the result of all human work should be not merely the perfecting of the thing produced, but also the perfecting of the worker; not merely external order in work, but also inner order in man.”[6]

[1] Furrow, 482
[2] Genesis 2:15
[3] William Blake, “Jerusalem”
[4] Catechism, 2428
[5] Page 27
[6] Page 141
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Written by Theodoric Nowak, Director of Social Justice & Outreach Ministries
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Unleashed - A book review

1/14/2019

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​People seek out therapy for a variety of reasons including: a crisis, increasing dissatisfaction, increasing emotional distress or a repetitive experience of being unable to overcome a destructive pattern in their lives.  Sonja Corbitt, in her book Unleashed, eloquently describes how God utilizes these sequences or “patterns” in our lives to create a journey in which we can experience His healing.  These patterns typically have a dark emotion driving it like anger, shame or fear.  “Salvation in the scriptures is synonymous with shalom, or peace.  It’s a great big, full, unleashed word, meaning integration wholeness, fulfillment, and sanctification.  Not merely about behavior, salvation, and peace involve motivations, and often these are buried deep in denial and the subconscious” (p.11).  This was the quote in Unleashed that hooked me to read the whole book - only 8 chapters long but each sentence appears carefully crafted and directs us to the teachings of the Church and Sacred Scripture.

Reading this book was the result of a series of patterns in my own life.  The first pattern was an emotional one.  In the last 2 years a persistent frustration had been growing and spreading to multiple areas of my life indicating that development needed to occur and my own strength was insufficient.  The second pattern was directional.  I was not sure where to begin in the busyness of my life, and someone shared and encouraged me to read Unleashed (btw - thank you), but I had not prioritized it.  Then in a recent confession, the priest, who was unfamiliar to me,  recommended I complete some reading as part of his spiritual direction, but the chosen book did not arrive in time for the Christmas break.  Unleashed did.  
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Unleashed by Sonja Corbitt Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN - 2015. Reviewer: Eunice Peterson.
Sonja Corbitt’s personal transparency of her humanity and wounds invites the reader to consider their own families of origin and subsequent life choices.  Each of us have wounds and our protective responses created hurdles to the healing Christ longs to give us through the gifts of the Holy Spirit, Sacred Scripture, his Mother Mary and the Church.  Often these hurdles will present themselves as patterns as God, our creator, is a God of order.  They have value in our spiritual growth as our predominant fault will be revealed providing opportunity for the Holy Spirit to heal.  The revealing, though painful and humbling, allows for us to see and experience the tenderness and persistence of our Lord.  He desires wholeness for us.  It is through cooperating with his grace we let go of fear, learn to trust, and He tenderly releases us from destructive relationships, habits, circumstances and desires.

However, Ms. Corbitt does not delude the reader into thinking this will be a quick fix.  She recognizes that God allows patterns to reveal exactly where He wants to work.  Ms. Corbitt recognizes the courage and challenge required of the reader to identify the worldly comforts that have become unsatisfying but provide an illusion of control or protection.  Her heart-felt examples articulate her understanding of suffering and the hope it brings when God’s mercy is allowed to mold it and we submit to his timing.  Furthermore, she is delightfully brash in encouraging us to ask of God and seek the desires of our heart. 

Ms. Corbitt presents a solid foundation and understanding of scripture, church teachings, and lives of Saints on which to build the map to “unleash” the reader from the “patterns” which have become destructive.  The Holy Spirit works with us - as is - and through the Word.  He creates order from disorder.  “The Holy Spirit works outward to inward and in an upward spiral to God” (p. 37).   Ms. Corbitt is gifted as a writer, and intertwines personal narratives, scripture and teaching. Therefore, one reading will not be sufficient to fully comprehend her message.  Ms. Corbitt finishes each chapter with a review and invitation to guide the reader to deeper understanding and healing.  This book could be utilized as a devotional, reference or group study.

The new year encourages us to reflect and pursue newness, change or growth.  Even if you are not at a point of dissatisfaction or crisis, but you have come across this brief review - consider it an invitation to explore your spiritual development.  If like myself there has been a pervasive experience that is demanding change, or begging for healing - grab a copy of Unleashed, cooperate with the Holy Spirit, risk trusting and embrace the journey of healing.
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​​​Eunice Peterson is a Registered Psychologist in private practice.  Her practice’s primary focuses includes: trauma integration from a neurobiological perspective, disorders on the anxiety spectrum, grief and loss and life transitions.  She, her husband and five children have resided in Calgary since 2010.
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7 Keys to Spiritual Wellness - A book review

1/14/2019

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Society has conditioned us to seek instant gratification, even in matters of spirituality. We see store shelves lined with quick self-help books promising wealth and happiness in ‘four easy steps’. Ultimately, though, these formulas lead to disappointment, disillusionment, and distorted notions of how spiritual well-being is truly fostered. The beginning of a new year is a perfect time to take a step back and appreciate that the spiritual path is, truly, a journey of a lifetime. It rightly calls for the virtues of patience and grace, for critical reflection and self-examination – all of which can only emerge from everyday moments of conversion and growth.

With this in mind I encourage us to take a look at a book written a few years ago by Joe Paprocki, entitled ‘7 Keys to Spiritual Wellness’ (Loyola Press, 2012). Now, right away it’s important to think of each key not as ‘quick fixes’ to spiritual issues, but more as guiding principles to help us navigate the complex landscape of our spiritual journeys. Each principle Paprocki offers serves to keep us alert to signs that we are on a healthy path. In a fresh and engaging style, he relates each key to what he calls “the seven most provocative and important questions you will ever ask yourself.” 
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7 Keys to Spiritual Wellness, Joe Paprocki (Loyola Press, 2012). Reviewer: Dr. Lance Dixon
Through insightful illustrations and applications, Paprocki helps us orient ourselves to seeking the good of others, of recognizing and setting limits, of rediscovering the beauty in the ordinary, and seeing ourselves as we truly are; mortal human beings unconditionally loved by our Creator.

​Perhaps fittingly, the most insightful question Paprocki challenges us to reflect on is in the final chapter. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, Jesus challenges us to see ourselves within the story of Scripture, to open our eyes to the mystery of God’s presence, and let our hearts be kindled for the journey ahead. Paprocki asks us, ‘What sparks a fire within your heart?’ then leaves us with these words; “The God we seek is on fire, has a mission, and invites you and me to be a part of it. Imagine that.”


Dr. Lance Dixon currently serves as Director of Campus Ministry at St. Mary’s University. Formerly an Anglican priest in Toronto, Lance moved to Alberta with his wife and children when he became a Catholic educator with Christ the Redeemer school division, and most recently with Calgary Catholic school district. He is passionate about the new evangelization of the Church for mission in today’s world.
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Dr. Lance Dixon currently serves as Director of Campus Ministry at St. Mary’s University. Formerly an Anglican priest in Toronto, Lance moved to Alberta with his wife and children when he became a Catholic educator with Christ the Redeemer School Division, and most recently with Calgary Catholic School District. He is passionate about the new evangelization of the Church for mission in today’s world.
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