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
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[…]
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis; nulla talem silva profert, flore, fronde, germine, dulce lignum, dulci clavo, dulce pondus sustinens! Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa viscera, et rigor lentescat ille, quem dedit nativitas, ut superni membra regis, miti tendas stipite. Sola digna tu fuisti, ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare, nauta mundo naufrago,[…]
Now that we in the midst of Holy Week, it is important to focus our attention on the Holy Triduum or the Easter Triduum. How many graces are restored for us if we just humbly and courageously open our hearts to receive God’s healing in these ‘three days but one day’, which liturgically starts from[…]
‘Tenebrae’ – or ‘darkness’, in Latin – is a service of solemn songs and readings in the three days (the ‘Triduum’) commemorating our Lord’s own descent into His Passion, with the gradual extinction of candles, preceding the great light and joy of Easter, with the victory of the Resurrection. Music for Tenebrae has been composed[…]
