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
Beware that you are not led astray (Lk. 21:8). ⧾ The sacred liturgy again today directs our attention to the eschaton, the teaching about the end time when Our Lord will bring to fulfillment the kingdom which He has established. This too is a dogma of the faith that we affirm in the recitation of[…]
Let us not resist his first coming, so that we may not dread the second. What then should the Christian do? He ought to use the world, not become its slave…(for) he who is without anxiety waits without fear until his Lord comes (Saint Augustine, +430)
MANY PASSAGES in Scripture, both the Old and the New Testaments, are disconcertingly violent, as in today’s Gospel: Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. Parallels to this text occur in[…]
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ’s Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God (Saint Gertrude the Great, +1302)
Saint Margaret of Scotland (+1093) was the devoted wife of Malcom III, King of the nation to which she fled as a fetching young royal English lass. Her family had been exiled from England, and Margaret was born and raised in a very pious Catholic environment in Hungary, of all places, a nation now returning[…]
I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity. (Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, +1917)
(Here is, for your perusal, Saint Thomas’ teaching on charity – or divine-like love, ‘willing the good’ – is the principle of merit, rather than, as Kant would later say, the difficulty or greatness of the task. Here, Thomas is adumbrating Saint Therese’s ‘little way’, that small things done with great love, are greater in[…]
O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)
You people of Vitebsk want to put me to death. You make ambushes for me everywhere, in the streets, on the bridges, on the highways, and in the marketplace. I am here among you as a shepherd, and you ought to know that I would be happy to give my life for you. I am[…]
Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. (Saint Martin of Tours, +397)
