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
We missed our usual Sunday musical offering, so here is a beautiful modern piece I recently came across, by the English organist and composer, William Harris (1883 – 1973) who held various appointments throughout the realm, including at one point giving chorister lessons to a teenage Princess Elizabeth. This motet, first heard October 29, 1959,[…]
Toward the end of his term in office, American President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court of the United States. As a devout and practicing Roman Catholic, Judge Barrett was immediately denounced by the progressive and liberal factions of American civil and political society. The outcry was primarily related to the[…]
A reader – perhaps, as he admits, for his first and only time – wrote the following comment in response to my Dominion Day piece: Newly aware of this Catholic website I am quite surprised and disappointed with the political content. There are many other media sources to read if one is seeking political opinion.[…]
A reader, ‘T’, wrote the following in reply to Father Testa’s article on Canceling Conservative Priests, and I thought this required a response outside of the comments section: Am saddened by such violent references on a Catholic site, and by a Catholic priest (drive by shooting, totalitarian regime …war of annihilation against perceived enemies, Church[…]
(For those who prefer auditory format, we will record some of these articles as ‘podcasts’, and please do let us know what you think). History, in fact, is not in the hands of the powers of darkness, chance or human decisions alone. When evil energy that we see is unleashed, when Satan vehemently bursts in,[…]
In you the children and the young people will find a safe refuge These were the unforgettable words which were spoken from the heart of the Venerable Pope Pius XII at the canonization of St Maria Goretti, on 24th of June, 1950. Maria, whose feast day is celebrated today, July 6th, has much to teach[…]
In His mercy, God has chosen us, unworthy as we are, out of the world, to serve Him and thus, to advance in goodness and to bear the greatest possible fruit of love in patience (Saint Anthony Zaccaria, +1539)
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment (Hilaire Belloc)
And Jesus could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. And Jesus was amazed at their unbelief (Mk. 6:6). The Scripture lessons of today’s Mass speak of the difficulties encountered in the work of the Gospel, the work of salvation. The Prophet[…]
A theme common to Ezekiel and Saint Mark—the readings for the fourteenth Sunday, year B—is the necessity of faith . . . and, be it said, the difficulty of achieving it. The history of the Jews is a catalogue of the sin of idolatry, i.e., of surrendering their allegiance to the one true God for[…]
