Catholic Women's League - Airdrie

Catholic Women's League - Airdrie A women's ministry of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church in Airdrie, Alberta.

06/15/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Matthew 9:36—10:8), Jesus summons apostles whom he shapes and sends on mission.

Priests through the centuries—from Augustine and Aquinas, to Francis Xavier and John Henry Newman, to John Paul II—are the descendants of those first friends and apprentices of the Lord. They have been needed in every age, and they are needed today, for the kingdom of heaven must be proclaimed, the poor must be served, God must be worshipped, and the sacraments must be administered.

Spiritual fathers are required especially in our time, when a rising tide of secularism threatens to overwhelm the religious impulse. We are wired for God; we will never satisfy the deepest longing of our hearts apart from God.

The secularist ideology teaches that sufficient amounts of wealth, pleasure, power, or honor will make us happy. Who will counter this? Who will speak to this culture of the beauty of God? Who will remind us that our lives are not about us? Who will break open the words of the Gospel and spread out the banquet table of Christ’s body and blood? This is why we need priests.

06/12/2026

“Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, teach me an entire forgetfulness of myself, since that is the only way one can find entrance into you.” —St. Claude La Colombière

06/12/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Matthew 11:25–30), the Lord offers to relieve our burdens: “Take my yoke upon you . . . and you will find rest for yourselves.” Jesus almost always speaks in paradoxes, and this is another one. “I will put a yoke on you.” Now, if I am burdened, the last thing I want is a yoke that will make my life more burdensome.

But here’s the paradox: What is it that makes our lives heavy and weighed down? Precisely the burden of our own egos, the weight of one’s own self. When I am puffing myself up with my own self-importance, I’m laboring under all that weight. Jesus is saying, “Become a child. Take that weight off your shoulders and put on the weight of my yoke of my obedience to the Father.”

Here’s how it works: If you have two animals yoked together when they’re both pulling, they are doing each other’s work. Jesus is saying that if your life is heavy and burdensome, it’s probably because you are caught up under the weight of your own sense of self-sufficiency. Get rid of that and take the yoke of Christ’s obedience upon your shoulders. Allow yourself to be led.

06/12/2026

Holy Guardian Angels Parish Council (Englefeld, SK) celebrated the 65th anniversary. The women sitting in the front row of the photo are original charter members.

Submitted by Loraine Kowalski

06/11/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Matthew 5:20–26), Jesus commands us to be reconciled with one another. I want to say something about the role of forgiveness in repairing our broken relationships.

When you are at worship and realize that you need to forgive someone (or be forgiven by someone), go and do it. Go get reconciled, then come back. It’s like a rule of physics. There is something hidden in the deep mystery of God, and I can’t fully explicate it. Somehow, if there is a lack of forgiveness in you, it blocks the movement of God in you. Perhaps it’s simply because God is love, and so whatever is opposed to love in us blocks the flow of God’s power and God’s life.

One reason we do not forgive is that we feel that some injustice has been done to us, and we resent it. A good cure for this feeling is to kneel before the cross of Jesus. What do you see there? The innocent Son of God nailed to the cross—the ultimate injustice. What does he do? He forgives his persecutors. Meditate on that, and your sense of being treated unjustly will fade away.

06/10/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Matthew 5:13–16), Jesus asks, “If salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned?” That question ought to bother us as much today as it did Jesus’s audience long ago. What he means is that a weak Christianity is a disaster for the world, for it depends upon the Christian Church in order to become what it was meant to be.

Consider the truly awful gun violence in the streets of Chicago and other large American cities. A vibrant Christianity would actively get in the way of this affront to human dignity; vibrant Christian churches would rub salt into the earth of this violence; vibrant Christian witness would be a city set on a hill.

Consider the tens of millions of unborn eliminated since Roe v. Wade. I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of the mothers and fathers of these murdered children came from a Christian background. Why wasn’t their Christianity strong enough to function as salt and light? Why wasn’t their faith illuminating enough to shine a light into the darkness of what they were doing?

The clear implication is that, without vibrant Christians, the world is a much worse place.

🎉✨ CWL YEAR-END CELEBRATION —RSVP TODAY Don't Miss It! ✨🎉 Dear Sisters in Christ,Our CWL Year-End Gathering & Service P...
06/09/2026

🎉✨ CWL YEAR-END CELEBRATION —RSVP TODAY Don't Miss It! ✨🎉

Dear Sisters in Christ,

Our CWL Year-End Gathering & Service Pin Presentation Evening is almost here — and we want YOU there to celebrate! 🙏❤️

🗓 Tuesday, June 16th 🍽️ Supper is on us — FREE for all members! 📍 Details to follow upon RSVP

⚠️ RSVP DEADLINE — Monday, June 9th ⚠️ TODAY !!!!!

Spots are limited and every sister deserves a seat at the table — so please don't wait!

📧 Contact Louisa at: [email protected]

🚨 IMPORTANT: Please notify Louisa of any food allergies or dietary restrictions when you RSVP. Every detail matters so that every sister is safe and cared for! 🌿

"Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." — Matthew 18:20 🕊️

🎉🙏 IT’S CELEBRATION TIME, SISTERS! 🙏🎉✨ CWL Year-End Gathering & Service Pin Presentation Night ✨• 🗓 Tuesday, June 16th• ...
06/09/2026

🎉🙏 IT’S CELEBRATION TIME, SISTERS! 🙏🎉
✨ CWL Year-End Gathering & Service Pin Presentation Night ✨
• 🗓 Tuesday, June 16th
• 🍽️ FREE Supper for all members
• ❤️ A night of gratitude, joy & sisterhood!
⚠️ RSVP by June 9th — spots are limited!
📧 [email protected] (Contact Louisa to confirm & share any food allergies!)
🌿 Every sister has a place at this table — we cannot wait to celebrate YOU and all you have given this year! 💛
“Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I.” — Matt. 18:20 🕊️
CWL sister below!

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