FRIARS OF EDMONTON c/o 8421 101 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6A 0L1 January 10, 2022 Dear Friends, RE: THANK YOU and Farewell from the Friars Board Happy New Year! We hope you and your families are all safe and well. At this time of year, we normally send you a…
In the fall of 1997, I received a handwritten letter offering me a team (staff) position at Camp St. Louis near Bonnyville. Accepting that invitation remains one of the best decisions I ever made. The effects of those five summers on my life linger more than 25 years later. It…
In this year-end video interview, Archbishop Richard Smith addresses indigenous relations, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and walking on a synodal way of being or walking together.
Just over 200 years ago, an Austrian Roman Catholic priest named Josef Mohr penned the words to what would become a Christmas classic. A couple years later, a teacher and organist, Franz Gruber, would add music to the poem. The result: the German version of Silent Night, Holy Night. I…
This year’s No Room in the Inn campaign hopes to raise money to support L\’Arche to improve housing for people with special needs in the Edmonton area. No Room in the Inn is an annual Christmas season ecumenical appeal by the Edmonton and District Council of Churches, based on the…
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” (2 Tim 4:7) The Foundation of St. Joseph Seminary and Newman Theological College lost a good friend as the life of Ave Spratt came to an early and unexpected close, on May 22. But…
I had already been a seminarian for six full years before I came face to face with the joyful opportunity to finally embark on a pastoral internship year in a parish, back in my home Archdiocese of Saint Boniface, Manitoba.
It is important to note that the delegation is postponed, not cancelled...
Peter Dai Nguyen is a second-year student at St. Joseph Seminary. He is from Phuc Vinh, Vietnam. He spent his first year living at Trappers Lake, north of Yellowknife. This past summer he spent a month in Tuktoyaktuk.
After more than 30 years at the city’s museum, the pieta has been returned to Sacred Heart Church in Red Deer. The pieta stood at the church from 1959 until a fire in 1990.