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
Every year on December 17 the church intones the ‘O antiphons’ the joyous canticles in anticipation of the coming of Christ. But on the same day, the Church also commemorates the memorial of a seemingly forgotten friar, John de Matha, father of the Trinitarians (Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives) and[…]
I just finished reading Joseph Pearce’s biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, subtitled ‘A Soul in Exile’, a remarkable book, packing a very full life into a very readable pages, showing what the indomitable will of one man can do against a vast totalitarian regime. Solzhenitsyn’s life is almost a reverse 1984, and he the anti-Winston. Orwell’s[…]
On Saturday 16 December, we started the Christmas novena. As the name itself suggests, the word novena comes from the Latin ‘nouenus’ which means nine each or occurring as a group of nine. In our Catholic faith tradition, ‘novena’ points to a devotion made up of prayer requesting for some particular grace for the individual and/or for somebody else. Several are the novenas which are prayed daily over a nine successive days period. The idea of novena we[…]
On a note of hope as we approach the birth of Christ – in a world that seems so devoid of that powerful virtue – here is a fitting reflection by Peter Leithart, which helps us see providence somehow at work, even in the midst of profound and systemic evil. Christ exhorts us always to[…]
