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
A wee bit of Canadiana for our readers: On this day in 1914, the Scottish ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the estuary of the Saint Lawrence River, after an accidental collision with a coal ship in thick fog, with the loss of 1012 lives. This was just two years after the loss[…]
Palestrina’s Viri Galilaei, the text taken from the antiphon from second Vespers of the Ascension, was first published in 1569, recounts the joyful wonder of the Apostles as they witnessed their Lord ascend bodily into heaven, whence He shall return again, at an hour willed by the Father.
Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. (Acts 1:11)
When was the Church founded? Many would say that it emerged from the opened side of Jesus on the cross, like a new Eve from the new Adam. Others point to Pentecost when, with Peter’s great sermon, the Church began its mission of evangelization.[1] No one to my knowledge has suggested the Ascension, but Luke’s[…]
