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
On the Memorial of Saint Joseph the Worker, fittingly the first day of the month dedicated to his spouse, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Bishops of Canada are consecrating Canada to Our Lady, in time of pandemic. What follows is the text of the consecration, should you choose to follow along. Cardinal Collins is praying[…]
Today is the traditional birthday of what was dubbed – and the name stuck – the world wide web. On April 30th, back in 1993, Timothy Berners-Lee released the source code of his idea to link together a global information sharing system, linked to various computers around the world. Dr. Berners-Lee was a researcher at[…]
(In light of the memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, who was a third-order Dominican, readers may enjoy these reflections from John Baldio, on the ‘secular order’ of the Franciscans, laypeople who live and work in the ‘world’, while living out the ideals of the poor man of Assisi, as best they might. Editor) Let[…]
All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics (Pope Saint Pius V, +1572)
In this time where the schools are shut down, business is shut down, we are living off of government handouts, Churches are closed indefinitely, we are excluded from the Holy Mass, told by the State that we can’t socialize and are wondering what will come next or when will this end, it is the role[…]
On April 13, Forbes magazine published a piece titled: “What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders” which was written by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. Avivah is a feminist who in recent years has made it her life’s mission to promote gender equality or what can be referred to as equality of[…]
(O)f all God’s creatures Mary is the most conformed to Jesus. It therefore follows that, of all devotions, devotion to her makes for the most effective consecration and conformity to him. The more one is consecrated to Mary, the more one is consecrated to Jesus. (Saint Louis Grignon de Montfort, +1716)
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a[…]
“Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus” St. Paul wrote to the Philippians. I dare say that most Christians have no idea what this entails. Our minds do not simply borrow noble ideas from the teaching of Christ and adopt them as our own. Rather, we each need a new mind —[…]
Asked if he had ever asked God, in the words of Christ on the cross, “Why have you forsaken me?” Cardinal Pell responded “No …But I have said ‘My God, my God, what are you up to?’” When George Cardinal Pell was acquitted in an Australian High Court during Holy Week, many regarded this decision[…]
