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
In Matthew’s Gospel (19:12) Our Lord exhorts us to become ‘eunuchs’, which is not to be taken too literally, even if there are rumours the third-century theologian Origen did. And most certainly did Peter Abelard suffer that fate, by some ruffians hired by the uncle of his paramour Eloise, when his relationship with her went[…]
Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another’s defects (Saint Robert Bellarmine, +1621)
The punishing penal sentences meted to two groups of protestors – a group of pro-lifers who blocked an abortuary, as well as those who wandered through the Capitol on ‘January 6’ – are indicative: People – at least, the ‘wrong’ sorts of people – with no weapons, nor prior criminal records, and who caused no[…]
Let us then remember one another, united in mind and heart. Let us pray without ceasing, you for us, we for you; by the love we share we shall thus relieve the strain of these great trials. (Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr, +258)
We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee, for by Thy Holy Cross, Thou hast redeemed the world.
God permits moral evil – He never wills it, let it be said – but He does allow it, even the grave and demonic kind, for reasons that are mysterious. But one which we may glean, as Saint Thomas says, is that such evil allows moral goodness – far more powerful – to shine out[…]
Besides commemorating the Battle of Vienna, today, September 12th, is also the memorial of the Holy Name of Mary, whose very name has been made sacred by the holiness of the woman, the very Theotokos, the Mother of God, full of grace. Pope Innocent XI instituted this feast in 1684, in thanksgiving to the Blessed[…]
On this memorial of the Holy Name of Mary, here is a magnificent rendition of the Ave Maria by Felix Mendelssohn, which may seem odd, as he was a ‘Reformed Christian’ from the age of seven, a denomination not known, to put it mildly, for their Marian devotion. But Mendelssohn had some soft spot for[…]
The feast of the Holy Name of Mary, celebrated on September 12th, has a long history. It was in 1513 when Pope Julius III gave the permission to the Cuenta diocese in Spain to celebrate The Holy Name of Mary feast. This feast had a proper Office to September 15, the octave of our Lady’s Nativity. As[…]
Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary’s maternal intercession.” (St. Thomas Aquinas)
