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
This Saturday, November 4th, is the feast of St Charles Borromeo, one of the shining lights of the Catholic Reformation, a time of turmoil. Charles Borromeo, united with St Ignatius of Loyola as well as St Philip Neri, did his very utmost so that the true reform could reach every aspect of Catholic life. Borromeo[…]
I was waiting for it, as I listened to a recent pro-life talk I attended, the topic of which was IVF: I had an inkling the presenter would raise the fractious issue of ‘adopting’ abandoned frozen embryos, which many Christians, even Catholics, support. It seems a win-win: The mother gets a child, and the child[…]
On the eve of November 4, 1212, in a remote town in Meaux, France, a monk, in his dying bed, asked that his brothers sing him one last lullaby, the sweet prayer of hope to the Blessed Mother – Salve Regina. It must have reminded him of the time, not too long ago, of the[…]
Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God (Saint Martin de Porres +1639)
For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he[…]
(On this commemoration of All Souls, beginning this month dedicated to all the faithful departed, here is a meditation on the great Saint Catherine of Genoa, who spread the devotion of praying for and with the Holy Souls in Purgatory, all the while as one of the true reformers of Christ’s Holy Church.) Whilst great[…]
JOHN PAUL II ANGELUS – ALL SOULS DAY Sunday, 2 November 1997 Dear Brothers and Sisters, 1. Yesterday we celebrated the Solemnity of All Saints and today the liturgy invites us to commemorate the faithful departed. The Church links her contemplation of those who have already attained God’s glory with her remembrance of those who[…]
It is impressive, fitting for this Solemnity – and a quasi-litany as a bonus:
Today’s Solemnity of All Saints reminds me of St Pope John Paul II’s reflections on holiness, and I’d like to share with you some of his most powerful and life-changing thoughts about it. In his message to the young people of Sicily as they were preparing to make a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our[…]
