Musical Offerings, Fifteenth Sunday
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Month: July 2019
Plan for Unplanned
A note to all our readers: “Unplanned” – based on the powerful and moving true story of the conversion of former Planned Parenthood employee Abby Johnson – is screening in select theatres across Canada for ONE week: July 12-18th. Please fill a car with friends and family and see this film! As they become available,[…]
Let us die, then, and enter into the darkness, silencing our anxieties, our passions and all the fantasies of our imagination. Let us pass over with the crucified Christ from this world to the Father, so that, when the Father has shown himself to us, we can say with Philip: It is enough. (Saint Bonaventure, +1274)
The Good Samaritan and Thirsting for God
Take care of him and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend. (Lk. 10:35). The parable of the Good Samaritan is the answer to this question: ‘And who is my neighbour?’ (Lk. 10:29). Our Lord expands the definition of neighbour beyond the bounds of nationality or race. This well-known parable[…]
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. (G. K. Chesterton)
Confiteor, Et Miserere Mei
At the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we begin with the call to repentance and to a reflective manner of life is issued in what is called the Penitential Rite. The most common form of this rite is what we call the Confiteor or the I Confess. The Confiteor is the traditional[…]
Goretti, Epstein and Henry
I know almost nothing about Jeffrey Epstein, except the vague charges of sexual malfeasance, the ‘Lolita express’, and the island of sensual delights, at least of a certain sort. What I did find intriguing was that he was arrested on July 6th which, as readers may well be aware, is the memorial of Saint Maria[…]
Louis and Zelie Martin’s Ecclesia Domestica
There is no strict formula to being the parents of saints, but there are things one can do to ameliorate the process, as I tried to point out in some inchoate way in the reflection on the Benedict Option yesterday. All parents can really do is provide the example, the exhortation and the environment in[…]
If we wish to attain a dwelling-place in his kingdom we shall not reach it unless we hasten there by our good deeds. Just as there exists an evil fervour, a bitter spirit, which divides us from God and leads us to hell, so there is a good fervour which sets us apart from evil[…]
God loved us before He made us; and His love has never diminished and never shall. (Blessed Julian of Norwich, + ca. 1416)