• Herb O’Driscoll (1928-2024) had a long and prolific career as a priest, conference leader and writer. He served in several parishes in Ottawa; as a Navy chaplain in Halifax; as Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver; as Warden of the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC; and as Rector of Christ Church, Elbow Park in Calgary, Alberta. Herb and his wife Paula retired to Victoria in the mid-90s, and Herb served as honorary assistant at the Cathedral.

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Calvary

Herb O’Driscoll’s newest book of memoirs, I Will Arise and Go Now: Reflections on the Meaning of Places and People, was released Feb. 17 by

The donkey remembered

Herb O’Driscoll’s newest book of memoirs, I Will Arise and Go Now: Reflections on the Meaning of Places and People, was released Feb.17 by Morehouse

Journey with my father

Herbert O’Driscoll’s latest book – and perhaps his most eagerly anticipated after more than 50 previous volumes – is a collection of autobiographical reminiscences, entitled

A brief encounter

By late afternoon he came down out of the hills to a wooded valley. He noticed that the forest floor was tinder dry. Even this

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