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
Trite and tautological though the claim may be, permit me to begin by stating the obvious: it is good when good things happen. Good fortune and good luck are called so for a reason, just as are bad fortune and bad luck. Humans disagree about what is and isn’t good, some of them even going[…]
To the Christian, faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is an expression of certainty that the saying that seems to be only a beautiful dream is in fact true: “Love is strong as death” (Song 8:6). In the Old Testament this sentence comes in the middle of praises of the power of eros. But this[…]
Faith in the resurrection of Jesus says that there is a future for every human being; the cry for unending life which is a part of the person is indeed answered. God exists: that is the real message of Easter. Anyone who even begins to grasp what this means also knows what it means to[…]
The fifty days between Easter and Pentecost are devoted to meditation on the mystery of the resurrection, which is the foundation of Christianity. Just how much that is so came home to me when I was called upon to give an address on the faith of the apostolic Church. To begin with, I realized as[…]
Although he was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered. And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him (Heb. 5:8-9).⧾ The reading of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. John on Good Friday is a climax of the liturgy of[…]
While we’re still in the penitential part of the Triduum, still preparing for the great solemnity of Easter joy – here are a couple of musical selections: The first is the chant version of the song Crux Fidelis, an ancient hymn, which is part of a larger work by Saint Venantius Fortunatus (ca. 530 –[…]
The ‘Shroud of Turin’, widely held as the very burial sheet of Our Lord, imprinted miraculously with the image of His own body, will be displayed on Holy Saturday, April 3rd. This is a rare event, as the Shroud has only been brought out from its climate-controlled storage four times since the Jubilee Year of[…]
If you didn’t catch Murder in the Cathedral, the annual drama production of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, the first time around, or would like a second-listen, please do feel free to sit back and enjoy, the dialogue of the incomparable T.S. Eliot, and the music of the College’s own music students and ensemble.[…]
Judas is an intriguing figure, perhaps not for the right reasons, but nonetheless, he’s given to us in the Gospels for a reason – mysterious words, that end in what is in many ways the worst betrayal in human history, handing over the very Son of God, the Word made Flesh, and our Redeemer, including[…]
In those days, when the destroying angel saw the blood on the doors he did not dare to enter, so how much less will the devil approach now when he sees, not that figurative blood on the doors, but the true blood on the lips of believers, the doors of the temple of Christ. (Saint[…]
