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A Grade 5 student asks: What does God do up in heaven?
This is a very interesting question. First of all, unlike our rooms or a place where we hang out, God isn’t hanging out up in heaven. It’s called heaven, because that’s where He is. Now before I...
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A Grade 5 student asks: Why do some people think we came from monkeys?
This idea or thinking is what we call evolution, and the person who made this idea popular is Charles Darwin. Now always remember that it’s okay for us as Catholic Christians to believe in evolution,...
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A Grade 3 student asks: Why do we ring the bell at Mass?
We ring the bells at really important moments. Sometimes before we begin the Mass, to call us all to prayer. They are rung at the time when the priests hands are overtop of gifts [bread and wine]...
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A Grade 4 student asks: How do you know all the words at Mass? How do you...
Well, some things I have memorized but most things I simply know from the book we use that has all the prayers for the Mass in them [Roman Missal]. Just like you’re studying in school I studied too to...
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A Grade 3 student asks: Do you [Fr Chris] pray every night?
I try to. I don’t just pray because I’m a priest, I pray because I’m a Christian and the only way to have a good relationship with someone is to talk to them and listen to them. This is really what...
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A Grade 4 student says: It must have really hurt Jesus to have his hands and...
You bet it did! And don’t forget that it did! This is a really important part of our faith, because Jesus as the Son of God was not just another person, He was a very special gift of God Himself to...
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A Grade 7 student asks: Is God real?
Absolutely, God is real. Perhaps not real in the way you’re thinking, like you know a tree is real because you can see and touch it. Like your mom or dad is real because you can see, hear and touch...
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A Grade 4 student asks: Why don’t nuns come up and say something at Mass?
We all have different roles in life, but also in the Church. I know that I’ve worked with many nuns who are very involved in the liturgy [Mass, other celebrations] but they do many other things. When...
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A Grade 5 student asks: When you are mad with someone, how are you supposed...
What an excellent question. As a priest, as a man who also has struggled with getting angry, and as a Christian who wants to be the best person I can be; the answer is simple and difficult at the same...
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A Grade 6 student asks: Why do we die?
Death and the experience of it is a result of people choosing to sin; not you personally but Adam & Eve, the first people. When you’re baptized you become freed from that sin that comes with being...
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