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
. . . the rabbis said: “Solomon had three thousand parables to illustrate each and every verse [of Scripture], and a thousand and five interpretations for each and every parable”—which computes to a total of three million fifteen thousand interpretations for every scriptural verse.[1] Suppose we were to apply this statement to the Gospel about[…]
Saint Januarius was bishop of Benevuento, in the south-west of Italy, about whom a number of legends are told – that he survived unscathed being burnt in a furnace, that wild bears refused to touch him in the amphitheatre – but all we know for relative certainty is that he was put to death in[…]
The widening chasm in the Catholic Church – mirroring that in the broader society and culture – continues unabated. One is left wondering at the statement by Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, that Catholics can vote for Joe Biden ‘in good conscience’. His Eminence refused to say the same about Donald Trump, but[…]
The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything (Saint Catherine of Genoa, + September 15, 1510)
What follows may be of interest to readers who live in the Madawaska Valley, the location of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, and the region in which this writer also happens to reside. We – that is the College – and I – via my article a month or so ago on masking –[…]
Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another’s defects. (Saint Robert Bellarmine, Cardinal and Doctor of the Church, +1621)
This versions of the Stabat Mater – the classic 13th century hymn in praise of Our Lady of Sorrows – put to music by baroque composer Giovanni Batista Pergolesi is one of his most enduring, beloved works – and also his last, composed in 1736 on his deathbed at the tender age of 26, as[…]
For if he could die in body, could she not die with him in spirit? He died in body through a love greater than anyone had known. She died in spirit through a love unlike any other since his. (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, +1090)
So great and outstanding a possession is the cross that he who wins it has won a treasure. Rightly could I call this treasure the fairest of all fair things and the costliest, in fact as well as in name, for on it and through it and for its sake the riches of salvation that[…]
Remember the commandments, and do not be angry with your neighbour; remember the covenant of the Most High, and overlook faults (Sir. 28:7). ⧾ The parable of the unjust steward that we have just heard evidently speaks to us of forgiveness. We know that parables were characteristic of Our Lord’s preaching and all of them[…]
