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
The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom (Mt. 13:37-38). Our Lord spoke in parables to fulfill what had been spoken through the Prophet Isaiah: I will open my mouth to speak in parables; I will[…]
On Saturday, July 22nd, the Church universally celebrated the feast of St Mary Magdalene. Personally speaking, this great woman is of great inspiration for me of what it means to be an apostle of Jesus. It was the Angelic Doctor, St Thomas Aquinas, who named her as “Apostle of the Apostles”, for the reason that[…]
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb,[…]
How far are we from ‘normalizing’ pedophilia? Not far, methinks, as a March 2023 publication of of the International Commission of Jurists states: Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law. Hmm. ‘Domestically prescribed minimum age’. What does ‘domestically prescribed’[…]
The New Testament is concealed in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New. This longstanding Church principle highlights how so much of what is written in the Old Testaments points us to Jesus Christ though it was written well before Our Lord came to this earth.1 Our first reading today is[…]
Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God (Saint Bonaventure, +1274)
Our Lady of Mount Carmel ‘But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear…many Prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it’ (Mt. 13:16-17). In the Church’s Calendar of Saints, July 16th[…]
Someone – ironically, a good friend with a pronounced British accent – sent me this tongue-in-cheek article from the Babylon Bee: Study Finds Preaching With A Scottish Accent Results In 300% More Salvations I do have something of a bias and attachment to the Scotch brogue, which I consider – and pardon my provincialism –[…]
On this memorial of Saint Bonaventure – as mentioned in our post, one of the 37 Doctors of the Church – a fitting musical accompaniment is Anton Bruckner’s motet Os Iusti, (see the reflection on the composer by Julian Kwasniewski today in Crisis). The text is drawn from Psalm 36/37, used in the office of[…]
It is with great joy and thanksgiving to the Lord that today I share with you some thoughts on the feast of St Camillus de Lellis. In his address to the participants in the general chapter of the Order of Ministers of the Infirm, the Camillians, on Monday, 16 May 2022, Pope Francis told them:[…]
