December 12th is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, one of the most important feasts for the Church in Latin-America. This feast day was always a big one in my life, as my parish in Panama was named Our Lady of Guadalupe. I wrote about this four years ago. Perhaps this story is new ...read more

In the fourth installment of this four-part teaching series, Fr. Bill Burke, Director of the National Liturgy Office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, helps us to understand the revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal. ...read more

Are you a mother trying to cope in today’s hectic world? This week on S+L Radio we speak with Dorothy Pilarski about her new book “Motherhood Matters“. And if you’re wondering about the purpose of your life, we’ll also speak to Ken Yasinski, founder of Face2Face Ministries. He tells us about his book “The Fullness ...read more

In the third installment of this four-part teaching series, Fr. Bill Burke, Director of the National Liturgy Office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, helps us to understand the revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal. ...read more

Are you ready for the new translation of the Mass? In case you’re wondering, there is a new app to help you make the change. This week on S+L Radio we’ll be speaking with Cale Clarke, creator of the New Mass iPhone app. We also we meet pianist, singer and composer Fr. Robbie MacDougall and ...read more

In the second installment of this four-part teaching series, Fr. Bill Burke, Director of the National Liturgy Office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, helps us to understand the revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal. ...read more

In this first installment of the four-part teaching series, Fr. Bill Burke, Director of the National Liturgy Office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, helps us to understand the revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal. ...read more

I love Advent. I love counting the days to Christmas, but this year I feel like I have been counting down the days to Advent. It’s all because of those little changes to the language of the Mass. About a year ago, I mentioned to my children that the Mass was going to change. The eldest ...read more

Fr. Geoffrey Angeles is the composer of one of the three new Mass settings commissioned for Canada, to be used with the revised Roman Missal. Many of you have already been singing Fr. Angeles’ Mass. Here he is in a conversation with S+L’s Pedro Guevara-Mann at the meeting of the National Council of Liturgical Music ...read more

I vividly remember one homily I heard many, many years ago, where the priest very clearly said that to forgive and forget made no sense. “We must forgive,” he said, “but we mustn’t ever forget!” It was very liberating to hear that. And it’s so true. There are so many questions about forgiveness: does forgiving ...read more