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    Archives: Pray With Us
    • A Year of Spiritual Renewal In Ireland

      Posted by Allex Laurin on June 1, 2019

      A year ago, almost to the day, I returned to Canada from a year of spiritual renewal in Ireland. That experience, called Tertianship (referred to, among Jesuits, as the…


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    • Journeying with the Catholic Clergy of Tomorrow

      Posted by Allex Laurin on May 25, 2019

      For the 2nd year in a row, I’ve been given the privilege of being a spiritual director to seminarians of St Augustine in Toronto as they quietly pray through…


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    • The Spiritual Exercises and Seminarians

      Posted by Allex Laurin on May 18, 2019

      I’m at the Martyrs’ Shrine for the month of May. I feel privileged to be here. I’m a Jesuit based at La Storta Jesuit community in Pickering (which for…


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    • Glorify to Parents and Caregivers

      Posted by Allex Laurin on May 11, 2019

      As the only begotten Son of God Christ Jesus would have obeyed in full the commandments of God, such as that in the heading of this article. Not satisfied…


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    • My Experience at Martyrs’ Shrine

      Posted by Allex Laurin on June 30, 2018

      If I had to describe my experience of working and living at Martyrs’ Shrine in one word it would be blessed. I am a seminarian from St. Augustine’s Seminary…


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    • Nativity of St. John the Baptist

      Posted by Allex Laurin on June 23, 2018

      Ever since Martyrs’ Shrine was built to honor the eight Jesuit martyrs’ who gave their lives for the people of New France, thousands upon thousands of visitors, pilgrims and…


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    • Take and Eat -This is my Body

      Posted by Allex Laurin on June 1, 2018

      Today we as a church celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. Throughout my life I can remember…


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    • Praying: Then and Now!

      Posted by Allex Laurin on May 26, 2018

      I can remember saying my prayers as a little girl; I would pray on my knees beside my bed just like the little girl in the picture plaque I…


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    • Spiritual Conversation

      Posted by Allex Laurin on May 12, 2018

      Fr. Peter Bisson, SJ, Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in English Canada recently visited the Jesuit Community at Martyrs’ Shrine. During his exhortation to the Jesuit Community members, he…


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