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
A young mother lightly remonstrated with me about my diatribe on Women’s Day, claiming that the post did not emphasize enough the positive and affirmative. As a Scotch-Irish pessimist, I tended to agree, so, at the same mother’s suggestion, I am posting in supplement this excerpt from the closing address of Pope Saint Paul VI[…]
In the most troubled of times, God raises up saints as exemplars and intercessors, and Frances of Rome is no exception. Born into privilege in 1384, she lived through tumultuous times, with Rome ravaged by the effects of the ‘Great Western Schism’, which had begun in 1378, with eventually three rival claimants to the papacy,[…]
I am all for honouring women, but International Women’s Day – which I am at least glad to read they have not (yet?) modified to ‘Womxn’s’ Day – is an international disaster. Born at the dawn of the twentieth century, the day has its roots in the atheistic philosophy of Communism, which has amongst its[…]
Today is also the feast – a commemoration now, in the Lenten calendar of the Novus Ordo – of the early martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, put to death likely in the year 203. This was under the reign of Septimius Severus, who seems on the whole to have been well-disposed to Christians. But the religion[…]
Today is the anniversary of the death of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In March of 1274, he fell ill on his way to the second Council of Lyons, and so retired to the Cistercian monastery of Fossanuova where he recited a commentary on the Song of Songs for the grateful monks, in the midst which he went[…]
“When the Son of man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). The following random reflections on atheism address what many think has become the central issue of our day: the radical decline of faith throughout the world dramatically announced by the philosopher Nietzsche at the dawn of the twentieth century, when[…]
If I may be permitted a personal post-play reflection, a few words on Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College’s production and adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance this last weekend, which went beyond even the optimistic preview of the local Madawaska Valley Current. Combining the memorable songs and lyrics with vivid costumes and[…]
Eighth Sunday Per Annum (C) March 3, 2019. No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit (Lk. 6:43-44). ⧾ Our Gospel reading today is a continuation of last Sunday’s reading and again by means of concrete examples Our Lord[…]
No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished. He was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion it became a thing such as even Dante could not[…]
“A sentimentalist is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.” Oscar Wilde Stuffed animals, flickering candles, cello-wrapped flowers, unfocussed anguish and tears. What’s all this really about? I’m referring to that contemporary and now commonplace phenomenon triggered by yet another violent outrage in yet another unsuspecting community where entire[…]
