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
On November 14th, we celebrate the feast of the great Franciscan Croatian martyr Saint Nicholas Tavelic. His bold witness shows what it means to love Christ and love him till the very end. Nicholas was born at Sibenik in Croatia around the year 1340. Being endowed with the gift of preaching, he proclaimed the Gospel[…]
MP Laurel Collins, of the New Democratic Party, wants to make ‘coercive control’ illegal, especially, it seems, as applied to romantic ‘partners’, former or current. But, who knows, it could apply to anyone ‘coercing’ anyone else to do anything. For, as the article states: Collins’s bill does not define what what controlling or coercive conduct is.[…]
I serendipitously came across this article by Algis Valiunas – always worth reading – which describes what paganism was really like. Not the idealized res publica of the Renaissance and the Romantics. Rather, as Valiunas points out, commenting on the work of the historian Jacob Burkhardt (+1897), the Greek state was a totalitarian monster, often[…]
The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked. (Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini, +1917)
There are few – some may argue none – who can match Palestrina’s composition, and his ars perfecta, in full form here with his motet Sicut Cervus, based on Psalm 42, published posthumously in Venice in 1604: Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus. As the deer panteth after the[…]
In the study of hagiography, that is the writing of the lives of saints, one can easily notice the great effect St Martin of Tours’s life story has left on many other saints, starting, of course, from the life of St Francis of Assisi himself. He too, like St Martin, was challenged by the sight[…]
In Flanders Fields BY JOHN MCCRAE In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were[…]
BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS St Peter’s Square Sunday, 11 November 2007 Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, 11 November, the Church remembers St Martin, Bishop of Tours, one of the most celebrated and venerated Saints of Europe. Born of pagan parents in Pannonia, in what is today Hungary, he was directed by his father to a military[…]
Peace is the tranquility of order (Saint Augustine)
Teach nothing new, but instill into all men’s breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught… Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers… Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout. (Pope[…]
