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
Can there be a shorter account of Our Lord’s forty days in the desert than the one from Saint Mark? It omits not only the familiar three temptations but also the fact that Jesus fasted for the entire period of nearly six weeks. In doing so, he matched the great prophets from the Old Testament—Moses[…]
A blessed and grace-filled Lenten season to all our readers, beginning with this solemn commemoration of Ash Wednesday to launch us on our way through our own ‘forty days’ in the metaphorical desert. There are no end to the resources to help us in our greater focus on the three ‘acts of religion’ – fasting,[…]
For those of you who would like to, you may read over the full report on the scandal of Jean Vanier and Father Thomas Philippe. It is not easy to read, and you may draw what conclusions you may; the material certainly offers any number of intentions for which to pray during Lent. The Teck[…]
The plot thickens around affaire de Jean Vanier. I did not know he admitted to the sexual liasons in 2016, that the women had made their testimony, but that Vanier claimed that the relationships were consensual; as we all know by now, however, that word is fraught and fragile, which is why we have –[…]
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum dicendum est – speak nothing but good of the dead, first attributed to Chilon of Sparta in Greek, we would not take as a universal precept, but it holds in the main. We rightly condemn the heinous deeds of such tyrants as Diocletian, Hitler and Stalin, but for the more[…]
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Mt. 5:38). ⧾ At face value, these words appear to demand the impossible of us; but in the context in which Our Lord spoke them, and in light of the tradition of the Old Covenant which Our Lord came to fulfill, they are an invitation to[…]
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. (Saint Catherine of Siena, +1380)
We moderns have been indoctrinated to regard the Middle Ages as a time of superstition and cruelty, but in fact they were quite wonderful. Simply consider those splendid mediaeval cathedrals, the rich poetry of Dante, the unflagging appeal of Saint Francis of Assisi. There’s another accomplishment of those times that we still honour today: they[…]
The public teachers of Ontario – including the Catholic Board, still holding that title, with not much to show for it, but more on that in a moment – staged a province-wide walk-out yesterday. I saw a number of them as I left Mass at the cathedral on Friday morning, the day of the ubiquitous[…]
And upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. On this strong foundation, he says, I will build an everlasting temple. The great height of my Church, which is to penetrate the heavens, shall rise on the firm foundation of this faith…The gates of hell[…]
