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
Now He is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to Him all of them are alive. (Lk. 20:38) As we approach the end of the liturgical year, the Sacred Liturgy invites us to ponder the four last things: death, judgment, Heaven and hell. These are realities that help us to live[…]
Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive. (John 20:38)
A priest I knew many years ago opposed to the move from Latin to English in the prayers and readings at Mass. “For,” he said, “if the people heard the creed in their own language, they might discover that they didn’t believe it.” An instance of what he meant may be found in today’s Gospel,[…]
The feast of the dedication of ‘Saint John Lateran‘ commemorates the primary church in Christendom, the ‘mother and head’ of all other churches, the Holy Father’s own cathedral, tracing its lineage back to Constantine, who, under the authority of Pope Sylvester I, built the first basilica on the site, owned by the Laterini family, in[…]
My fellow Christians, do we wish to celebrate joyfully the birth of this temple? Then let us not destroy the living temples of God in ourselves by works of evil. (Saint Caeserius of Arles, +542)
(I may write more on the recent headline, which comes not as a surprise, that most ‘Catholics’ – and one must use that term widely nowadays – reject the Church’s teaching on ‘cohabitation’, companionate marriage or, in more technical terms, fornicatio simplex. For now, ponder these words from the great Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica,[…]
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice (G.K. Chesterton)
A writer must at times take back, or at least re-form, opinions once vaguely and lightly and perhaps too hastily held. Even the great Augustine and Newman wrote their retractions. All part of that humility of Christian growth, one may hope. I finally watched, well, skimmed through, the ‘ritual’ held in the presence of the[…]
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness (G.K. Chesterton)
By one of those historical coincidences that are all part of God’s good providence guiding all things to their final end, besides being Guy Fawkes’ Day (1605), this is also the anniversary eight decades on (1688) of the landing of William of Orange at the coastal town of Brixham in southern England, instantiating what some[…]
