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’s solemnity of the Sacred Heart is of rather recent provenance as Church history goes. Although the full humanity of Christ, body and soul, was defined clearly in the first series of ecumenical Councils of the Church, the notion of worshipping and honouring the ‘heart’ of Jesus has its roots in the early Middle Ages,[…]
St Anthony of Padua, whose feast is on June 13th, is an eloquent example of what it means to live the Gospel amid the challenges of everyday life. As I write this reflection spontaneously comes to my mind and heart the thought Pope Francis wrote in his letter to Friar Carlos Alberto Trovarelli, Minister General[…]
Come, my starfallen sunpiercer bright horned clarion call unicorn. White body as exposed as a host. Lifted up fragile as the priest’s fingers, giving God weight. Butterfly pinned to the black velvet world soft with sin stripped of all illusion. Unveiled to the naked world’s staring eyes slavering mouth unable to comprehend when a unicorn[…]
Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork. (Saint Anthony of Padua, +1231)
This year we are joyfully celebrating the 700 year anniversary of the canonization of St Thomas Aquinas on July 18, 1323, by Pope John XXII, so it is right and just to appreciate his immense contribution regarding the theology of the Holy Eucharist. In Aquinas’ theology, Jesus’ Most Precious Body and Blood are entirely one and[…]
O Sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of His Passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us (St. Thomas Aquinas, +1274). As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ or Corpus Christi as it is traditionally known,[…]
The Dolawatta bill presently in parliament, seeks to change Sri Lanka’s penal code in order to create rights to private and public expression of behaviour such as grossly indecent unnatural carnal intercourse, as associated with unspecified sexual orientations. This change in law, as with the attempts to legalise the killing of the pre-born through abortion,[…]
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. (Saint John Vianney)
There is only one saint in the calendar today, Saint Robert of Newminster, a twelfth century monk and abbot who died on this day in 1159.
Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven (Mt 18:3). Though many of Jesus’s words might be subject to interpretation in various faith traditions, Matthew’s report of what he said in Galilee in response to the question, “Who is the greatest in the[…]
