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A New Arrival!
Congratulations, Vanessa and Michael! The new proud parents welcomed baby Liam last week!
William Joseph Nicholas-Schmidt was born on Tuesday April 24, 2012 at 11:38am, weighing 8lbs 15ozs.
Vanessa will be away on Maternity leave until March 2013.
Filling in for Vanessa, during her absence, is a familiar face… Kelly Bourke! (Kelly took care of Faith Connections while Vanessa was on study leave in 2010/2011)
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Rising above personal misery
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Spiritual resistance in a concentration camp
The Catholic Register writes, "Most 16-year-olds worry about getting good grades and maintaining friendships. Vera Schiff’s main concern was to stay alive. Schiff shared her story to an audience of young adults at an April 23 Faith Connections’ Theology on Tap event where she discussed her spiritual resistance in a concentration camp. Between 1942 and 1945, she was held at the Theresienstadt camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, where she endured many hardships but found ways to maintain her humanity."
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Nourishing body and spirit with healthy foods
Vanessa Santilli of The Catholic Register writes, "Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you that you have from God and you are not your own, Faith Connections program director Vanessa Nicholas-Schmidt told participants at the Keeping the Temple Healthy event April 14."
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Opposite of poverty is not wealth, but justice
On March 26 2012, Neil Hetherington, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Toronto, spoke about his commitment to building homes for economically disadvantaged people. In addition to his work in Canada, Neil has worked in Habitat for Humanity projects in Europe and Africa.
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Bringing retreat reflection to the everyday
Vanessa Santilli of The Catholic Register writes, "Finding it hard to fit prayer time into a hectic schedule, one of the sisters told me it might be helpful to get creative in my prayer life in order to better understand how God is speaking to me. So, along with the regular Hail Marys and Our Fathers, I started reading random Bible passages and keeping a journal to better open the lines of communication. When I heard about Lenten Listening: A Busy Person’s Retreat, I jumped at the opportunity."
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Employment Opportunity: Ministry for Social Justice, Peace, and Care of the Earth
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You can’t have healthy people on a sick planet
Sixty-five participants joined Faith Connections, Development and Peace and the University of Toronto Newman Centre for a day of retreat entitled “Ecological Justice: The Connection Between Catholicism and the Environment”. The day combined talks by Dr. Dennis Patrick O’Hara, a professor of Ethics and Eco-Theology at St. Michaels College with group discussions, prayer, reflection and the Mass.
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A part of Creation, not above it
On February 27, Theology on Tap welcomed Sr. Noreen Allosery-Walsh, OSU and her talk "Our Lenten Journey — Engaging the World from an Ecological Perspective".
Sr. Noreen spoke of how faith and science can be united through the discipline of cosmology, or viewing Creation in the context of the universe.
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Getting ‘clarity of mind’ at Hike & Prayer
The Catholic Register writes, "God had a different plan in store for the Faith Connections’ Snowshoe & Prayer event and its 18 young adult participants held on Feb. 25 at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, Ont. Due to the warm weather, and the lack of snow, the event was changed to Hike & Prayer."
