Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Worship the Lord in holy splendour; tremble before Him all the earth. Say among the nations, “The Lord is King! He will judge the peoples with equity” (Ps 96). Today is World Mission Sunday and Catholics throughout the whole world are invited to pray and sacrifice for the mission of the Church. Today, even the[…]
Children of divorce, researchers say, often enter adult life with an impaired memory. No one knows for sure why their childhoods seem less vivid. One explanation is that memory works best when it can graft details onto a continuous narrative. Divorce ruptures that narrative. For much of the twentieth century Communists tried to inflict just[…]
Perhaps you haven’t noticed them? Over the past several months, at the top of each of these editorials, has been an original sketch of an exemplary Canadian Catholic church. Over the next few months, I’d like to tell a few of their stories; I’d like to use them as windows into our artistic tradition and[…]
Shortly after I was married an acquaintance of mine (also married) wrote to say that marriage was much harder than she thought it would be. She was a romantic type and was of the mind that after they were married, her beloved would always think of her first, wouldn’t ever annoy her, and would keep[…]
It was an awkward moment. Our friend Angela loves to swim. As the mother of three, she invariably arrives at the pool tired, and a little weary. I am not sure if she had her glasses that day; in any case, a few weeks ago, when she bustled into the locker room, she saw well[…]
The Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or a parish community. – Paul VI (Mysterium Fidei, 68) Remember way back to Easter? If you played host, how long did you take to prepare the family meal? How many days did it take to fix[…]
Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven and see; have regard for this vine, the stock that your right hand has planted (Ps 80). The Scripture lessons of the Mass today invite us to enter into the mystery of the Church on earth as the vineyard of the Lord. As we continue to[…]
Today we celebrate the Saint of the Little Way, a cloistered nun who died at the age of only twenty-four, having led a very simple and hidden life. After her death and the publication of her writings, she quickly became one of the best known and loved saints. She has never stopped helping the simplest[…]
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus (Phil 6:14). Two Sundays ago, when we celebrated the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, you may remember that our second reading was essentially the same text we have just heard from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians. We return to[…]
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. (Is 55:9) The parable of the workers in the vineyard which the sacred liturgy presents to us for our instruction and as an aid to worship is in fact a means by which we enter more deeply into the mystery[…]
