Welcome to IamThird.ca

I AM THIRD. Catherine Doherty, the foundress of the Madonna House apostolate wrote these words in her book "Sobornost: Experiencing the Unity of Mind, Heart, and Soul," explaining that our lives should be lived serving God first, then our neighbor, and finally ourselves. IAMTHIRD.ca belongs to Mike Landry, a Catholic youth minister from Spruce Grove, AB. His aim is to help young people learn to live Catholic Christian lives, putting themselves in third place.

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Food for thought (usually updated Tuesday/Friday)

Waterfights and the dangers of sin

If you’ve been in a waterfight, you might have used the following strategy:
1.  Do ‘run-by’ attacks, seeking to avoid getting wet as long as possible.
2.  Accept that getting wet may become necessary in order to soak your preferred target.
3.  Resign yourself to the fact that you’re about to be soaked, and use that fact to [...]

Year #4

In most profession, success is measured by quantity.  In sales, it’s about how much money you’ve made the company.  In law enforcement, success is measured by the crime rate.  Education is evaluated by test scores.   Having spent the better part of eleven years working with retreat teams, camps, and parish youth programs I can sometimes [...]

A Sad Saint is a Sorry Saint

I first heard this quote as one of the one-liners that Archbishop Thomas Collins used to toss out during some of his talks and homilies.  I’ve more recently discovered that it is in fact a quote from one of his favorite saints, St. Frances de Sales, whose great work An Introduction to the Devout Life [...]