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
Abstract Are you an “investigator” or maybe a “peacemaker’ or someone who would be known as a “helper” or “achiever?” Maybe you are the enthusiastic lover of excitements or an individualist. Many of us want to know who we are and, ideally, have a simple method to get to the answer of who we are[…]
Thanks to my Irish Catholic mother and 12 years with the good sisters of six parochial schools and four more years at the University of Notre Dame, I am not among the 10% in this country who are atheists. Many non-believers who have made a serious effort to consider whether God exists would write me[…]
So then, the great Mother of God, so mysteriously united to Jesus Christ from all eternity by the same decree of predestination, immaculately conceived, an intact virgin throughout her divine motherhood, a noble associate of our Redeemer as he defeated sin and its consequences, received, as it were, the final crowning privilege of being preserved[…]
From a different time and a different era, here is a clip of Pope Pius XII declaring the dogma of the Assumption back in 1950, with 700,000 of the faithful crammed into. Saint Peter’s square. And who does not want to bring back the sedia gestatoria, along with the triple tiara! I thought the woman[…]
“…faith and prayer are forces that can influence history and that in the end prayer is more powerful than bullets and faith more powerful than armies.” (St. John Paul II) August 15th, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, marks the 123rd anniversary of the Miracle on the Vistula River, the event[…]
A brief word on Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the priesthood. Would-be seminarians used to be asked – perhaps they still are – what is the essential nature of the priestly office. The proper answer, of course, is to offer sacrifice – of the Mass, yes, but also of themselves. That is why they wear black,[…]
The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers. (Saint Maximilian Kolbe)
The table set for everyday- my father, leaning in; two or three gathered. His usual shyness at supper- the rub of indignity against composure; his cane, his chair. His voice barely brushed the air- like a soft thing – glancing the cold edges of a brash world, where all his lived memories[…]
In light of today’s saints, Pontian and Hippolytus, here are Bishop Fulton Sheen’s prophetic words on the Antichrist. As we mentioned in an accompanying post, Hippolytus – ironically himself a sometime anti-Pope – wrote a treatise on the mysterious figure of the anti-Christ, again whom we were warned by Saint John and Saint Paul, and,[…]
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according to the flesh (Rom 9: 3). The epistle reading of the Mass today is taken from the ninth chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. It is an affirmation of[…]
