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
Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it – So Randall Smith begins his must-read essay in The Catholic Thing – a must-read especially by our bishops – on another analogy between slavery and abortion. As Smith points out, just as the Magisterium condemned slavery in no uncertain terms, so too has[…]
Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration. (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)
Simple facts can often be significant . . . and often unadverted to. Consider the Last Supper. Obviously, the Apostles had to be present in order to participate in it. Wonderful as it was, it would have been of no benefit to Peter if he had decided not to attend. And yet, this trivial observation[…]
One of the most beautiful ways that the Holy Spirit teaches me to think about the Eucharist is that of pondering upon its immense spiritual richness. This thought makes perfect sense because the Eucharist, the Sacrament of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, instructs us by its very presence how we should be[…]
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, +754)
From Tomás Luis de Victoria, his motet in praise of the Holy Eucharist, from 1585, in an era when the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was suppressed throughout Europe, falling into the errors of Protestantism. But beauty is one of the best ways of reminding us of the truth of what Christ has left us[…]
O Sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of His Passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us (St. Thomas Aquinas, +1274). ⧾ As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ or Corpus Christi as it is traditionally[…]
I was reading some of the corollary to the martyrs we celebrate today, the numerous ‘pages’ of King Mwanga put to death for resisting his unnatural sexual advances. He had them burned alive, an unpleasant way to go, but Charles Lwanga, who was in charge of the pages, and saved them from the king’s lust[…]
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. ~ Saint Jean Vianney
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) hardly needs an introduction to the typical reader of Catholic literature. Author of more than sixty books of essays, fiction, poetry, biography and drama, Chesterton’s hundreds of essays are sprinkled among scores of books. This fact presents a problem of difficult accessibility, remedied at last by an intelligent collection of the best[…]
