The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerors. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)
Month: November 2019
Giving Thanks
A blessed and joyous Thanksgiving to all our American readers!
Andrew’s Shame and Main Chance
To paraphrase Richard Weaver’s dictum about ideas, sin too has consequences, some of them abrupt and awful, such as murder and suicide; while the deleterious effects of other sins, the more hidden variety usually, like a bad case of radiation poisoning, take months or even years to manifest. As Pope Saint John Paul II put[…]
Advent Musical Meditation December 2nd
Please feel free to join Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College’s Schola in an Advent musical meditation, on Monday, December 2nd, 7 p.m., at Saint Hedwig’s church in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, featuring pieces by Arcadelt, Pitoni, Palestrina, Bach, Brahms and others, accompanied by our string ensemble, and interspersed with brief readings from Scripture.[…]
There has arisen in our time a most singular fancy: the fancy that when things go very wrong we need a practical man. It would be far truer to say, that when things go very wrong we need an unpractical man. Certainly, at least, we need a theorist (G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World)
This is why I make this strong and insistent appeal—not, I trust, untimely—that faith and philosophy recover the profound unity which allows them to stand in harmony with their nature without compromising their mutual autonomy. The parrhesia of faith must be matched by the boldness of reason. (Pope Saint John Paul II, Fides et Ratio)
The Eucharistic Reign of Christ
‘Truly, I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise’ (Lk. 23:43). ⧾ From the moment that Our Lord spoke these words, the Church has lived in this time frame. Although the chronology of time progresses and unfolds, the eternal today of God’s time reaches across and underlies all history. This today of[…]
Supernatural Monarchy
A blessed solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers, a feast first instituted by Pope Pius XI, with his encyclical Quas Primas (December 11, 1925), well worth a read through. Prior to the revisions of Vatican II, and still in the usus antinquior, this was celebrated on the last Sunday of October –[…]
Mammon’s Morbid Might
The conviction of David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress is a tragic one for the pro-life cause. As you may have read, they were found guilty of exposing, in an undercover sting operation, Planned Parenthood’s gruesome and deeply evil ‘business’ of selling the body parts of aborted babies. Whatever one thinks of their[…]
Christ the King’s Providential Passion
THE GOSPELS this year have come from the Gospel of Luke, and we finish on the feast of Christ the King with a section of Saint Luke’s account of the crucifixion. The few verses you have just heard is typical of Luke in that it emphasizes the compassion of Jesus, a trait that runs through[…]