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
Before we point out some caveats – and there are always caveats –I’d like to make clear I think it overall, in the balance, a good thing indeed that Amy Coney Barrett is Trump’s appointee to the Supreme Court. But we should curb, moderate or at least modify our enthusiasm. Our salvation – and even[…]
If a Supreme Court Justice said it was all right to abort your baby, then it was all right! For women everywhere and particularly for millennial women such public permission has sufficed, justifying the taking of an innocent life from its mother’s womb at any stage during pregnancy. In fact, since the U.S. Supreme Court’s[…]
Had I many thousands of lives I would offer them all for him. Never shall I apostatise. You may kill me if that is what you want. To die for God – such is my will (Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, +1637)
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus (Phil. 6:14). ⧾ Our second reading includes an ancient canticle or hymn that summarizes for us the Mystery of the Cross: Christ Jesus…emptied himself… He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death – death on a cross (Phil. 2:6-11). This[…]
Once I gave a talk on Saint Andrew. It was in Kenaston, Saskatchewan, in a church dedicated to Saint Andrew. At the end of my remarks, the parish priest opened the floor for questions. The first one I directed to him: “Why don’t they ring the bells at funerals any more?” The second was more[…]
I bind myself in this way so that for the rest of my life I will have neither permission nor freedom to refuse opportunities of dying and shedding my blood for you (Saint Jean de Brebeuf, +1649)
(Courtesy of a source, slightly modified for publication🙂 There was an interview on September 23rd, of Harvard and Standford Professors of medicine, Martin Kulldorff, Jay Battacharya, and Michael Levitt — providing a clear and sane appraisal of the Covid-19 situation. It is 2 hours in length ( a great watch for a Friday night movie).[…]
(What follows is an adapted version of a summary I wrote for a friend of my thoughts at present on these protocols being put in place, which might help some, even we disagree. Rational and free discourse and debate is requisite for human beings, whatever we end up doing, so that we end up doing[…]
Humility, simplicity, charity…but above all charity (Blessed Emilie Tavernier’s dying words)
