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
A grace-filled First Sunday of Lent – to all our readers, and we hope you enjoy the Lenten reflections. As well, a joyous Leap Year to one and all, the only time when, in Ireland, so custom goes, a woman may propose to a man, a custom that may soon be outlawed in our transgendered[…]
What more need be said, for the visuals speak a thousand words? Vanguards of police standing mutely and idly by, while ‘protesters’ – armed terrorists, more to the point – light fires on public train tracks, blocking trains, and even, it seems, trying to set them alight: WATCH: Anti-pipeline protestors are resorting to extreme lengths,[…]
The Lord measures out perfection neither by the multitude nor the magnitude of our deeds, but by the manner in which we perform them. (Saint John of the Cross)
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11). On Ash Wednesday we began the observance of the holy season of Lent with the imposition of blessed ashes, an external sign of our interior resolve to undertake Lenten penance. By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to[…]
A friend asked me to write a follow up to my initial article on Catholic Insight concerning Jean Vanier, and I will hopefully leave this as the last word on the matter, as we leave his soul in the hands of the merciful God, to those who seek His mercy. I will use some of[…]
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. (Saint Augustine)
To have the soul of a poet Lord, To have one that feels to the depths. The gaping wide hole in my soul Lord The sadness and longing must be for Thee. It is the wind that all things are fleeting. The color that only created eye can see It burns me to the[…]
And there was a great battle in heaven; Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought, and his angels. And they prevailed not: neither was their place found anymore in heaven. And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent who is called the devil, and Satan, who seduceth the[…]
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Vatican Basilica Ash Wednesday, 13 February 2013 Venerable Brethren, Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, Ash Wednesday, we begin a new Lenten journey, a journey that lasts forty days and leads us towards the joy of Easter, the victory of life over death. Following the ancient Roman tradition of the[…]
Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life. (Pope Benedict XVI)
