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
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[…]
A recent article in the Catholic Register – the newspaper of the Toronto Archdiocese – recounts the vocation story of two of our alumni, who happen to be siblings, and the vocational fruit borne from the orthodox and integral liberal arts formation here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College. If we but do what[…]
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you. (Saint Clare of Assisi, +1253)
A few words on World Youth Day, which just wrapped up in Lisbon, on which much ink has already been spilled: There is, as in most things, the good, the bad and the ugly – is there a beautiful? Not in the liturgical celebrations, which came across – as so often in our ecclesia moderna,[…]
I worship my God and serve him alone, and I am not afraid of torture. My God is the rock where I take refuge (Saint Lawrence, +258)
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are. (Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, +1942)
Sri Lanka dances to the tune of the globalists and seeks to normalise homosexual relations and trans-genderism and other kinds of ‘queerness’. Section 365A of Sri Lanka’s Penal Code currently criminalises “any act of gross indecency” between persons. One would have imagined that it would be a grave and substantial challenge for a reasonable person to[…]
One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. (Saint Dominic, +1221)
