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
Today marks another sombre anniversary – it was ten years ago, on the last day of February, that Pope Benedict XVI officially resigned the papacy, with a brief address to the cardinals. As he said back then – in the original, speaking Latin: However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken[…]
A brief mention of two saints, both of whose commemorations fall on February 29th – the day of their deaths. Hence, on non-leap years they are moved to today, the 28th. I suppose the same happens to people with birthdays on that propitious leap day, when, as custom has it, women may propose to men,[…]
(This was posted four years ago, but the few thoughts therein still seem relevant…) It was six years ago today that Pope Emeritus Benedict’s resignation from the papacy became official, leading to the conclave which elected Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio to take his place or, more properly, Christ’s place, as His vicar. That is not to[…]
In the face of my darkness, you are light. In the face of my mortality, you are life (Saint Gregory Narek, +1003)
(A helpful meditation from parish priest Father Robert Weaver. I couldn’t help but just add as an intro that I’m intrigued by the three people put on the list of those we might like to meet. I’m not sure they’d be my top three – or, if they were, they would not be for reasons[…]
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost (G.K. Chesterton)
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11). On Ash Wednesday we began the observance of the holy season of Lent with the imposition of blessed ashes, an external sign of our interior resolve to undertake Lenten penance. By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to[…]
If one can get past the nauseating image of John the Baptist dining on locusts, (which may our own lot soon – Ed.) chapter three of Matthew’s Gospel reinforces the identity of Christ as Son of God and sets the scene for His humble ministry and servant leadership. When John foretells the coming of Christ[…]
(Eric Voeglin (1901-1985) was a German political philosopher, who narrowly escaped the Gestapo, and spent most of his life in America. He wrote voluminously, with a particular focus on the history of ideas, order, society, Gnosticism, faith, religion and the notion of transcendence, his best known works being The New Science of Politics, Order and History,[…]
As we commemorate this day, February 24th, the official beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, we should all be praying for some sort a peaceful resolution, not least before there is further escalation that spirals out of control, if it hasn’t already. The Ukrainian Catholic bishops here in Canada have issued a letter, and the[…]
