Mary’s Little Bro — ANDREW HEAKES

A blog of a novice for the Dominicans of Canada

Andrew Heakes is a novice for the Dominicans of Canada at St. Mary’s Parish Vancouver, listening to Jesus to discern a vocation in Western Canada. His educational background is in Marketing at Langara College.

He grew up in California and returned to British Columbia, where his parents grew up, in 2021 during the Covid-19 Pandemic. His own journey to the Church is a quest for Truth and ‘True Life’. He wants to help others to find and cherish true life in Jesus

  • Comment on the David French Opinion Piece “What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral”

    by Br. Jacob This was an article which my dad sent me to give my opinion on. It is by David French who is know for being a opinion columnist for the New York Times, he is also know for being open about his Christian faith and this year drawing attention to the crisis of…

  • 2nd Sunday Advent Reflection — 2025

    We might be scared at the end of the Gospel this Sunday “The chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” He says this furiously, probably with spittle flying out of his mouth, we assume, right in to the face of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Is that the point of this Gospel today? To be scared?…

  • Sunday Gospel Reflection — Mark 12:28-34

    Sunday Gospel Reflection — Mark 12:28-34

    In the passage, a scribe approaches Jesus after hearing him debate with religious authorities. The scribe asks Jesus which commandment is the greatest. Jesus responds that the foremost commandment is to love God with all one’s heart, soul, mind, and strength, and the second is to love one’s neighbor as oneself. The scribe agrees, acknowledging…

  • You never know what God will do tommorrow…

    I was told last week, on Saturday, I’ll be waiting another year for postulancy and therefore I would miss the first Dominican Novitiate in Vancouver. I had confused my own vocation team by writing something factually incorrect about myself without meaning to. I was accepting. Obviously I do not want to do this (a religious…

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