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
For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples (Is. 56: 7). ⧾ In any given region or country, a common language is a source of unity. You may be familiar with the term lingua franca or bridge language, a language used to make communication possible between people who do not[…]
There are a lot of rumours about Guiseppe Tartini (1692 – 1770), a prodigious Baroque composer, who purportedly locked himself away to practise the violin consistently until he became a virtuoso, something parents might want to ponder. There is also the story that in a dream, the devil played an entire sonata for him, that[…]
A Canaanite woman . . . cried out, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.” . . .He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” . . . It is not fair to take the children’s bread and throw it[…]
In Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy, the poet puts these words in the mouth of St. Bernard of Clairvaux as he gazes on the beauty of Our Lady in Paradise: O Virgin Mother, daughter or thy Son, Humble beyond all creatures and more exalted, Predestined turning point of God’s intention. In Our Lady’s glorious[…]
The Lord Jesus gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom…He gave His Mother Mary the keys to His heart (Pope Pius XII)
Dear Brothers and Sisters! At the end of its Constitution on the Church, the Second Vatican Council left us a very beautiful meditation on Mary Most Holy. Let me just recall the words referring to the mystery we celebrate today: “the immaculate Virgin preserved free from all stain of original sin, was taken up body[…]
But we who hope for the Son of God are persecuted and trodden down by those unbelievers. For the wings of the vessels are the churches; and the sea is the world, in which the Church is set, like a ship tossed in the deep, but not destroyed. For she has with her the skilled[…]
For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be brought to light. … Mark 4:22 Despite the advent of the world wide web into the homes of Catholics around the globe in the 1990s, Holy Mother Church has not changed. But the perceptions of Her have. And[…]
INTRODUCTION The Gospel of St. John, unlike the Synoptic Gospels, offers no account of the institution of the Eucharist in his narrative of the Last Supper. Instead, he provides one of the most substantial Scriptural references for the Church’s teaching on the Eucharist.[1] This is the gospel where the Eucharist is first promised by Jesus.[2][…]
