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
(Here is one from our archives, from 2014, and from Sarah Gould’s reflections, the world has not changed all that much in the last half-decade. Her thoughts are still worth pondering). Once I almost ran over a woman with my car. Years ago I was in a grocery store and a quiet, pretty lady about[…]
“This is not a ‘religious service’ or a scripture class; this is Heaven on Earth: it is where our God comes to us.” The Extraordinary Form of the Mass or the Latin Mass is the Tridentine Mass. Promulgated by Pope Pius V in 1570, the Holy Mass was a reform of the Council of Trent[…]
Pope Emeritus Benedict and Cardinal Sarah have just released a book in defence of clerical celibacy, just as Pope Francis is pondering relaxing the discipline, one that goes back to the origins of the priesthood, contrary to Protestant and Modernist revisionism (after all, Christ was a celibate). The underlying, central issue is continence, or the[…]
There is an inertia in our nature that makes us dull; and in our attempt to penetrate your truth we are held within the bounds of ignorance by the weakness of our minds. Yet we do comprehend divine ideas by earnest attention to your teaching and by obedience to the faith which carries us beyond[…]
(The following is excerpted from LifeSite news, and the full piece may be found here. For another take on the troubling situation in China, peruse also Douglas Farrow’s recent thoughts). LETTER FROM CARDINAL ZEN TO THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS: Your Eminence, Pardon the inconvenience my letter will cause you. It is just that, in conscience,[…]
With the feast of Christ’s Baptism yesterday, we enter back into what we now call ‘Ordinary Time’, a term not opposed to ‘extraordinary’ – for all time is such from out eschatological Catholic perspective – but rather from the ‘ordinal’ numbers after which the Sundays are now named, with yesterday being the ‘First’, next Sunday[…]
A blessed and joyous feast of the Baptism of the Lord, commemorating the beginning of Christ’s public ministry which, as more than exegete has put it, was a prelude to His Passion and Death. For the water of baptism signify not just rebirth, but also a plunging into that very mystery of death, necessary to[…]
Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptized; let us also go down with him, and rise with him. (Saint Gregory Nazianzen, +390)
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men (Saint Thomas Aquinas, +1274)
Go humbly, humble are the skies, And low and large and fierce the Star; So very near the Manger lies, That we may travel far. Hark! Laughter like a lion wakes, To roar to the resounding plain. And the whole heaven shouts and shakes, For God Himself is born again, And we are little children[…]
