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
On June 30th, 2022, the feast celebrates the feast of the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome. Their witness is important because it brings to fruition what it means to follow Jesus Christ unto death. The Christians of Rome were the addressees of St Paul’s famous letter, which he wrote in the year 57-58[…]
It was on this day in 2007 that the i-phone was first introduced to the world, and things have never been the same since. Hard to believe it was just fifteen years ago that Jobs’ invention, or, more properly, innovation (for cell phones existed before then) changed the world, and our perception of the world.[…]
Saints Peter and Paul, whom we celebrate today, and John the Baptist, whose birth we recalled a few days ago, were neither complacent nor complaisant. In fact, the saints could be claimed as the patrons against these vices, and of the contrary virtues: humility, zeal and courage, even an (apparently) insouciant fearlessness. Complacence and complaisance[…]
On this solemnity of the two great Apostles, Palestrina’s Tu Es Petrus…
The feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist is certainly characterised by joy, in Latin, gaudium. Interestingly enough we are not talking about felicitas, happiness, but gaudium, joy. The collect for the Mass during the Day of the Solemnity of the Nativity of St John the Baptist goes: O God, who raised up Saint John the Baptist to[…]
The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God’s kingdom. – Saint Maximilian Kolbe
I heard recently a homily from a traditional priest, the theme of which was how often we should receive Holy Communion, which topic, funnily enough, also came up in a conversation I had with a friend just before that. The argument seems to be as follows: The purpose – the fruit – of Communion is[…]
Finally, the prayers and efforts of those on the cause of life over these decades in the trenches have paid off, from the envelope stuffers in the church basements, to those standing in witness before abortion clinics, to Donald Trump appointing conservative judges, to priests, laity and all those of good will interceding before God[…]
An intriguing comparison between the 1857 Dred Scott decision, and the 1973 Roe v. Wade. In both, the ‘personhood’ of certain segments of the population was denied, the first to black slaves, the second, to the unborn. The first led to civil war, the second…Well, we will see what the Supreme Court decides. Already threats[…]
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my[…]
