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
Today, 14 December, we celebrate the feast of a great Spanish mystic, a friend and a co-reformer of the Carmelite religious family, namely Saint John of the Cross. Born in Fontiveros, Avila, Spain in 1542, as Juan de Yepes y Alvares, John came from a family who turned poor overnight. His father, who was employed[…]
“So he said, ‘I am, as Isaiah prophesied: A voice of one that cries in the desert: Prepare a way for the Lord‘” (Jn 1:23). “He was not the light, he was to bear witness to the light” (Jn 1:8). In the Office of Readings for the Third Sunday of Advent, St. Augustine speaks eloquently of the word and[…]
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your[…]
Do not despise the words of Prophets…hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil (1 Thess. 5:17). ⧾ Again on this third Sunday of Advent we listen to the words of St. John the Baptist who in the Liturgy of Advent bears witness to the Messiah through his call to repentance[…]
Ok – So, we’re not Protestant, Baptist Bible Thumpers, but I for one love good music, and should give credit where credit is due, and I thought on this Gaudete Sunday – when we should rejoice – readers might enjoy some uplifting melodies and harmonies. There is something manifestly pure and holy, as well as[…]
In light of the 150th anniversary of Pope Pius IX’s naming Saint Joseph as patron of the universal Church with his 1870 constitution Quemadmodum Deus, Pope Francis has today decreed a ‘Year of Saint Joseph‘, dedicated to the saint, the husband of Mary, the foster-father (nutria) of the Christ child. Quite fitting, in light of[…]
John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York studio apartment by a deranged fan on this day forty years ago – the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – at the rather tender age of forty, six hours after signing an autograph for his future murderer – an act of kindness, and one never[…]
Besides celebrating the great solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the Mother of God and Our beloved Mother, on December 8th we also quite fittingly commemorate the declaration of St. Joseph as Patron Saint of the Universal Church. It was Blessed Pope Pius IX, a great devotee of St. Joseph, who, on this day[…]
The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown (Saint Ambrose of Milan, +397)
Canada’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. David Williams, has declared that those who refuse the proposed vaccine against Covid-19 will face ‘certain restrictions’, left sort of ominously vague, for now: https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/limits-may-be-placed-on-unvaccinated-ontarians-dr-david-williams Is the mask a propaedeutic for the rushed-into-service vaccine? One wonders about inoculating an entire population – or nearly so – for a disease that[…]
