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
I believe poetry is the highest of mankind’s literary achievements, timeless, appealing down the ages, revealing imagery of the poet’s struggles and experiences, stresses and joys, passions of love, navigating life with determination and purpose. Poetry is word paintings, full of colours, bright and dark, that create from a few words images to inspire the imagination[…]
Mary, Mother of God, we salute you. Precious vessel, worthy of the whole world’s reverence, you are an ever-shining light, the crown of virginity, the symbol of orthodoxy, an indestructible temple, the place that held him whom no place can contain, mother and virgin. Because of you the holy gospels could say: Blessed is he who[…]
(This is the first of a three-part article on the tragic effects of indifference toward religion) Several years ago I stumbled upon a Catholic classic, Essay on Indifference in Matters of Religion (1817) by the French priest and philosopher Hugues-Felicite Robert de Lammenais (1782-1854). There was a giddy gasp of serendipity when I first discovered[…]
