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
On this day in 1970, Pope Saint Paul VI officially canonized the ‘forty martyrs of England and Wales’ and, we might add, Scotland, priests, monks, laymen and women, put to death for the Faith between 1535 and 1679, as that same Faith was being persecuted and uprooted by the Kings, Queens and powers-that-be who had[…]
Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically. (Anthony Mary Claret, +1870)
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (Saint Francis of Assisi)
Karol Wojytla, the man who would be known to history as John Paul II, is almost the antithesis of a willow-the-wisp like Justin Trudeau. Karol’s character was forged in the fire of suffering, elevated and perfect by the grace of God, to which he corresponded from his youth. Even his obvious intellectual and spiritual stature[…]
What is one to say? The results speak for themselves, with the east more or less going ‘liberal’, the Prairies and Alberta going ‘conservative’, and BC going who knows where. I think it was Saint Augustine who quipped that we get the bishops we deserve, which may be extended, for the same goes for our[…]
We have not written too much on the Amazon Synod, by and large since I can scarcely bear to read about it, and others on other sites, such as First Things, offer a play-by-play far more detailed than anything we might muster from our more distant vantage point. But about the recent theft from of[…]
(I)f there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power. As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism. (Pope Saint John Paul II, Centesimus Annus)
‘And yet, when the Son of man returns will he find faith on earth?’ (Lk. 18:8). ⧾ Last Sunday, the anniversary of the last apparition of Our Lady at Fatima in Portugal, in our meditation we dwelt on some of the miraculous events associated with the miracle of the sun and the prophecies of Our[…]
A blessed and glorious Sunday to all our readers… Today’s Gospel speaks of Christ’s ‘elect’ – that is, His chosen, which in the end means those who choose Him and His truth – whose prayers and cries He will most certainly hear, in the time when His answer will be of most effect. Hence, the[…]
Enlarge your desires, do not bear the yoke with unbelievers. The deeper our faith, the stronger our hope, the greater our desire, the larger will be our capacity to receive that gift, which is very great indeed. No eye has seen it; it has no colour. No ear has heard it; it has no sound.[…]
