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
Strive to enter to through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able (Lk. 13: 24). ⧾ The lessons of the Mass today speak to us of the Mystery of Salvation. In symbolic terms the Prophet Isaiah speaks of the universality of salvation; that God offers[…]
As the title of this thread has it, they’re starting to slip the bugs in. No, no, not computer bugs, which have been around for decades, but real bugs, with antennae and thoraxes with weird-coloured blood. Intriguing how they call it cricket flour, as they’re so ground up, you can hardly tell you’re eating insects.[…]
Catholics are called to live a sacramental life, which means seeing everything as a sign, in its own way pointing to God, Who made all things – especially us – so that they might return to Him. The world is charged with the grandeur of God, wrote Hopkins in his 1877 poem, and over that[…]
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving (Albert Einstein)
(In light of the feasts of Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe, here is a re-post of a reflection I wrote upon my own visit there as part of a parish pilgrimage to Poland in 2015). To be honest, I was not fully aware until I came to Auschwitz a few years ago while on pilgrimage[…]
the future of the world stands in peril unless wiser men are forthcoming (Gaudium et Spes, 15)
Here is a very good take on Saint Vincent of Lérins (+445) and the complex question of the development of doctrine, on which Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman also wrote a millennium and a half after Vincent, in his own superb and carefully delineated essay. We are in dire need of such precise and clear[…]
And with regard to ourselves, how deservedly do we keep the feast of the Assumption with all solemnity. What reasons for rejoicing, what motives for exultation have we on this most beautiful day! The presence of Mary illumines the entire world so that even the holy city above has now a more dazzling splendor from[…]
In this canonization liturgy there seems to appear before us that “martyr of love” of Oswiecim (as Paul VI called him), saying: “O Lord, I am thy servant. I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou has loosed my bonds” (Psalm 115 (116):16). With these words during the canonization homily of Blessed Maximillian[…]
August 13th is the feast of Blessed Marco D’Aviano, who played a curcial role in Christian Europe of the seventh century. His importance can be seen even nowadays, in a Europe of integration of multi-ethnic and multi-faith context. He was born in Aviano on November 17, 1631, the third of eleven children of Pasquale Cristofori[…]
