Bishop Scott McCaig, C.C.
RC Military Ordinary of Canada

February 22, 2023

Dear Brothers in Christ,

As you are aware, God Squad Canada is a dynamic outreach that seeks to form, strengthen, and inspire men in their faith and vocation. Under the patronage and intercession of St. Joseph it has successfully been doing so for twenty-six years!

As the Episcopal Advisor to God Squad Canada, it is my great privilege and joy to invite you once again to the annual men’s conference. The theme of the 26th conference is Memento Mori (a Latin expression which means ‘remember your death’). In remembering the last things of death, judgement, heaven, and hell we are summoned to live our lives to the full! In the midst of today’s darkness of spiritual famine and moral confusion, we are called and empowered to be bearers of the light of Christ, to live for heaven, and to draw others with us.

The mission of God Squad is to equip each of us to be the men we are called to be, and to take up the challenge to reverse the tide of darkness in these difficult times. “The mission of Christ the Redeemer, which is entrusted to the Church”*, needs men willing to engage the mission and “proclaim the great works of God.”* I sincerely hope that you will all attend this year and bring at least one other man with you.

As always, I lift you up in prayer and extend to all of you my blessing.

In Jesus, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

Bishop Scott McCaig, C.C.
RC Military Ordinary of Canada

Ash Wednesday, 
February 22, 2023.

* REDEMPTORIS MISSIO, St. John Paul II, https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_07121990_redemptoris-missio.html accessed February 8, 2022