Wednesday 27 February 2013
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Monday 25 February 2013
Big Red Ball
I was looking through my pictures and found this shot.Look at the big red ball... oh wait that's my head!!
Rite of Election
Our Bishops greets the newly elect and their sponsor from our Parishes.I had the take a number of shots because our group was so large this year and... they love to socialize!
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Just what I needed
Thanks to the Neely Family for the much needed Epsom Salts left at my door.
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
Monday 18 February 2013
Saturday 16 February 2013
Friday 15 February 2013
Test
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
Family Skating
Monday, Family Day our parishes host a family skating party in Point Edward. It is a wonderful event and this year I am brave enough to put on a pair of skates. You see I have a confession to make; even though I love to ski… I never learnt to skate! The Keller’s would cross country ski with just a skiff of snow and make runs down every little mound in the Stratford area; but sadly skating was not part of Keller household activities. I would love to skate, especially when I see people fly by so carefree around the ice. People make it look easy yet the few times in the seminary where I have put on skates I realize it there are a lot of skills needed. It was a very humbling experience.
It is the same way with the Catholic life; the saints make it look easy… grace filled; yet there are basic skills that need to learnt and practiced until it becomes part of us. Lent is a time of returning to the three basic disciplines of a Catholic; namely prayer, fasting and sharing. It can be very humbling but when these are integrated they help us gracefully move through life. More importantly, they help us forget our fears, our doubts and our self-centered goals so that we may experience God’s will which is love.
So when you see me stumbling around the ski on Monday remember; LOOK OUT! I am not skating… I am learning how to be a saint.
Wednesday 13 February 2013
Monday 11 February 2013
Who will be the next pope? The contenders for Vatican's top job
Hey a Canadian is in the top choices for Pope.
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/next-pope-contenders-vatican-job
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/next-pope-contenders-vatican-job
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
From Scott Hahn
Back on April 29, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI did something rather striking, but which went largely unnoticed.
He stopped off in Aquila, Italy, and visited the tomb of an obscure medieval Pope named St. Celestine V (1215-1296). After a brief prayer, he left his pallium, the symbol of his own episcopal authority as Bishop of Rome, on top of Celestine's tomb!
Fifteen months later, on July 4, 2010, Benedict went out of his way again, this time to visit and pray in the cathedral of Sulmona, near Rome, before the relics of this same saint, Celestine V.
Few people, however, noticed at the time.
Only now, we may be gaining a better understanding of what it meant. These actions were probably more than pious acts. More likely, they were profound and symbolic gestures of a very personal nature, which conveyed a message that a Pope can hardly deliver any other way.
In the year 1294, this man (Fr. Pietro Angelerio), known by all as a devout and holy priest, was elected Pope, somewhat against his will, shortly before his 80th birthday (Ratzinger was 78 when he was elected Pope in 2005). Just five months later, after issuing a formal decree allowing popes to resign (or abdicate, like other rulers), Pope Celestine V exercised that right. And now Pope Benedict XVI has chosen to follow in the footsteps of this venerable model.
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
He stopped off in Aquila, Italy, and visited the tomb of an obscure medieval Pope named St. Celestine V (1215-1296). After a brief prayer, he left his pallium, the symbol of his own episcopal authority as Bishop of Rome, on top of Celestine's tomb!
Fifteen months later, on July 4, 2010, Benedict went out of his way again, this time to visit and pray in the cathedral of Sulmona, near Rome, before the relics of this same saint, Celestine V.
Few people, however, noticed at the time.
Only now, we may be gaining a better understanding of what it meant. These actions were probably more than pious acts. More likely, they were profound and symbolic gestures of a very personal nature, which conveyed a message that a Pope can hardly deliver any other way.
In the year 1294, this man (Fr. Pietro Angelerio), known by all as a devout and holy priest, was elected Pope, somewhat against his will, shortly before his 80th birthday (Ratzinger was 78 when he was elected Pope in 2005). Just five months later, after issuing a formal decree allowing popes to resign (or abdicate, like other rulers), Pope Celestine V exercised that right. And now Pope Benedict XVI has chosen to follow in the footsteps of this venerable model.
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
Peter and Paul
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
Sunday 10 February 2013
Last Run
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
Friday 8 February 2013
Worth the view
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
Frost Bite
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
Fart du Jour
Now would someone please tell me what wax I should put on my cross-country skis? Stop laughing and no I don't need to fart; I just want to wax my skis!
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
Wednesday 6 February 2013
From the mountain top
I write this from the very crowded Grand Manitou Lodge on top of Mont Tremblant. It seems the colder it gets on the slope the busier the Lodge gets. No wonder it is busy, today is one of those classic Quebec days where it actually gets colder as the day goes on. It started out -7 this morning and it will be -20 by sunset. It may get as low as -30 tonight. This cold front brings beautiful blue skies and a beautiful view.
Standing here one can easily understand how mountain-top experiences are so important in the Bible. A chance to get away and gain perspective on hills and valleys of our lives. One can not stay on the mountain top because it is necessary to travel through the valleys but these brief experiences bring everything into focus.
We need these time out more often; even weekly. Sabbath is meant to be a day of the mountain top. Our service is to ascend with Christ to return renewed to our daily life.
Make lent a chance of renewal. Fast, pray and share to leave the grind behind and gain insight into life.
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
Standing here one can easily understand how mountain-top experiences are so important in the Bible. A chance to get away and gain perspective on hills and valleys of our lives. One can not stay on the mountain top because it is necessary to travel through the valleys but these brief experiences bring everything into focus.
We need these time out more often; even weekly. Sabbath is meant to be a day of the mountain top. Our service is to ascend with Christ to return renewed to our daily life.
Make lent a chance of renewal. Fast, pray and share to leave the grind behind and gain insight into life.
Fr. Peter Keller
St. Michael's & Sacred Heart Faith Community
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