Catholic Women's League - Airdrie

09/06/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Luke 6:1–5), Jesus declares that he is Lord of the Sabbath.

Again and again, Jesus is portrayed as violating the sacred command to rest on the seventh day. His disciples pick grain on the Sabbath, and many times he cures on the Sabbath, much to the dismay of the protectors of Jewish law.

When challenged, he declares himself Lord of the Sabbath (a breathtaking claim for a Jew to make, since Yahweh alone could be assigned that title) and clarifies that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

In short, he claimed the properly divine prerogative of relativizing the significance of perhaps the defining practice of pious Jews and placing it in subordination to the kingdom of God.

09/06/2026

St. Teresa of Kolkata, friend of the poor and dying, pray for us!

09/04/2026

09/04/2026

The official photographs from the 106th Annual National Convention are now available to access for free. The collection is accessible through the photo gallery link on the national website homepage: https://www.cwl.ca/

These photos are available to download likely until the end of September.

09/04/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Luke 5:33–39), people ask Jesus why he doesn’t encourage fasting among his followers. Jesus’s answer is wonderful: “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?” (That’s a typically Jewish style, by the way, answering a question with another question.)

This great image of the wedding feast comes up frequently in the New Testament, most obviously in the wedding feast at Cana narrative. And it is echoed in the tradition. Jesus is the wedding of heaven and earth, the marriage of divinity and humanity; he is the bridegroom and the Church is the bride. In him, the most intimate union is achieved between God and the world.

Could you imagine people fasting at a wedding banquet? Could you imagine going into an elegant room with your fellow guests and being served bread and water? It would be ridiculous! The mark of the Christian dispensation is joy. Exuberance. Delight. God and the world have come together. What could be better news?

09/03/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Luke 5:1–11), Jesus climbs into Peter’s boat without asking permission. He simply commandeers this vessel that is central to the fisherman’s life and commences to give orders. This represents something of enormous moment: the invasion of grace.

Though God respects our relative independence, he is not the least bit content to leave us in a “natural” state. Instead, he wants to live in us, to become the Lord of our lives, moving into our minds, wills, bodies, imaginations, nerves, and bones.

This commandeering of nature by grace does not involve the compromising of nature but rather its perfection and elevation. When Jesus moves into the house of the soul, the powers of the soul are heightened and properly directed; when Jesus commands the boat of the natural human life, that life is preserved, strengthened, and given a new orientation.

This is signaled symbolically by the Lord’s directive to put out into the deep water. On our own, we can know and will within a very narrow range, seeking those goods and truths that appear within the horizon of our natural consciousness, but when grace invades us, we are enticed into far deeper waters.

09/03/2026

First Friday of the month Adoration
Sept 4,2026 from 09:30am(after Mass) until 5:30pm.
Come & spend some time with Jesus. ✝️
He waits for you.
Sacrament of reconciliation available from 09:30-10:30am.
Sign-up sheet outside of office or you can drop in anytime🙏🏽

09/02/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Luke 4:38–44), Jesus declares his mission: “I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.” And he continues to pursue his mission among us in our efforts to do the work of evangelization.

Do we need evangelization? The statistics couldn’t be clearer. Did you know that the fastest-growing category in polls of religious affiliation is “none”? And did you know that there are far more nones than Catholics in this country?

So, Catholics cannot avoid the demand of evangelization, proclaiming the faith. Vatican II couldn’t be clearer on this score, seeing the Church itself as nothing but a vehicle for evangelization: It’s not so much the case that the Church has a mission, but rather that a mission has the Church.

St. Paul VI and St. John Paul II made this idea central to their teaching. In fact, John Paul famously called for a new evangelization. Bringing people to Christ is not one work among many; rather, it is the central work of the Church, that around which everything else that we do revolves.