The First Novena to Brother André The year 2020 is a busy one for anniversaries at the Oratory. It marks the 100th novena to Saint Joseph, the 80th anniversary...
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Saint Brother André and Devotion to Saint Joseph
Saint Brother André and Devotion to Saint Joseph When Brother André entered the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1870, the community had already been established in Montréal for 23...
Hope is always reborn
Hope is always reborn Taste silence and prayer Whew! The crisis caused by the new Corona virus has not yet completely disappeared, but we can certainly breathe a sigh...
Trusting
Trusting One day in 1998, I received a letter from Alicia, a Friend of Brother Andre. Alicia lived in Aguascalientes, a village in Mexico. “From this village so far...
The Feast of the Sacred Heart
Blessed Basile Moreau, founder of Holy Cross, placed his religious family under the protection of the three members of the Holy Family: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Thus, to Our...
“Saint Joseph was good to me.”
“Saint Joseph was good to me.” One day early in the year, after Mass, an older woman in a wheelchair made a gesture to call me over. She handed...
Memory of the heart
Memory of the heart How many times I went with my dad to P. A. Gouin, Pascal, Handy Andy, Léopold Duplessis or Canadian Tire to pick up a tool,...
Becoming rich in the sight of God
Becoming rich in the sight of God Brother André, whose 10th Anniversary of canonization will be celebrated this year, had, like many people still today, his share of misery...
With a heart full of hope
With a heart full of hope One day I was visiting an old friend of mine. Long before I met her – when she was a mother of eight...