Recapturing Reason

Dr. Lau is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, a Psychiatrist, husband and father of 5. He is the Director of the Undergraduate Program for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. For four years, he and his wife Amy were responsible for the Adult Faith Program at Annunciation of the Lord Parish in Ottawa. He has given talks at other parishes and Universities in the area of Faith, Ethics and Medicine. He has been a regular contributor to Marriage Preparation Course at St. Patrick's for a number of years. Dr Lau is also the vice-chair of the Ottawa Catholic Physicians Guild and the President of the newly formed Canadian Federation of Catholic Physicians' Societies.

Our lives can be seen as the answers to the questions we ask. What do you want? Where are you going? What makes you happy? What matters to you? We all live busy lives and can get caught up in our own worlds. Do we stop to ask ourselves are we asking the right questions? As the great Yogi Berra once said, "It is hard to get some place when you don't know where you are going".

Have we forgotten the simple truth passed on to us that each of us is a child of God? Are we like the people who watched Jesus pass them by with his cross on the road to Calvary? Your cross? My cross? Do we pick ours up and join him? Or do we go just go through the motions, not just at Mass, but in our daily lives and not see God reaching out to us?

As GK Chesterton once said, "When people stop believing in God they don't just believe in nothing, they believe in anything." Do you have family or loved ones who have stopped coming to Church? Have they forgotten where they come from and where they are going? Do find you are at a loss for words when they have hard questions about the faith that is in you? Have they fallen for the errors in logic of Dawkins, Dan Brown, Carl Jung or the New Age Movement? In this series we will discuss the timeless truths of our Catholic faith which have been handed down to us from the being who entered history and revealed how God connects himself to his creation forever, in the family of God.

Session 1 - "Know thyself" or "I"    mp3 file

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