God has chosen the weak of the world, to confound the strong. He has chosen what is nothing,* so that no human creature may boast in the presence of God. (1 Cor 1:27)
Month: December 2021
The Ten Blessings of the Immaculate Conception
If a blessing is God’s favour and protection, can there be an eminent example of such than the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary? In his tertium librum Sententiarum, 3.q.I, Blessed Duns Scotus, a humble and most erudite Franciscan theologian writes: Mary did not contract original sin because of the excellence of her Son. Inasmuch[…]
God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God. The God who made all things gave himself form through Mary, and thus he made his own creation. He who could create all things from nothing would not remake his ruined creation without Mary. God, then, is the Father of the created world and Mary[…]
Mary, Conceived Without Sin
Que soy era immaculada Concepciou – I am the Immaculate Conception These are the words with which Our Lady replied to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, in the local French patois, when asked by the young visionary who she was. This was in 1858, four years after Pope Blessed Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate[…]
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies. (Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor, +397)
Saint Nicholas’ Love for the Destitute and Needy
The story of St Nicholas goes back to the third century, to the 15th March 270, when he was born in the Patara village in Asia Minor. In those days his village was within Greek influence. He hailed from wealthy parents, who were adamant to raise him in the Christian faith. Unfortunately he lost his[…]
Contact the Senators to Send Bill C-4 Back!
I know this is last minute, but Bill C-4 may be voted on by the Senate as early as tomorrow. This proposed legislation – if it may even be called such – would make illegal any attempt to ‘convert’ anyone, or even provide any therapy in any way construed to do so, based on sexual[…]
Words Aren’t Weightless: A Poem
Words Aren’t Weightless “Sticks and stones may break my bones But words will never hurt me” Tell that to the lasting tone of a stone Their syntax sticks My inner structures are brittle Hollow bones like a bird Words aren’t weightless They fly away from prepositions and predicates Subjected phrases, objectifying subjects Making nests[…]
Second Sunday of Advent: The Baptist, Newman and Preparing for the Lord
Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight (Lk. 3:4). ⧾ The Gospel of the Mass on this second Sunday of Advent introduces us to John the Baptist, the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight’. John the Baptist is one of[…]