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
He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God (Jn. 3:18). Each year, the Sunday following the Solemnity of Pentecost commemorates the Mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity, the central mystery of Christian faith[…]
The doctrine of the Trinity is the defining dogma of Christianity: “The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the love of God, the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” Nevertheless, the preservation and then the articulation of our trinitarian belief in the early Church was not a simple matter. On the contrary,[…]
These African martyrs herald the dawn of a new age. If only the mind of man might be directed not towards persecutions and religious conflicts but towards a rebirth of Christianity and civilisation! (Pope Saint Paul VI, canonization homily)
(Here, should it prove in any way useful, is a letter I wrote to my own local township on their decision to exhibit the ‘pride’ flag. Oddly, the motion to fly the actual flag was defeated; but a subsequent motion to portray the flag digitally on the sign by the side of the highway outside[…]
‘Anti-hate’ is all the rage, if one may excuse the mixed metaphor. The ‘anti’ of something is, logically, its contrary, and the contrary of hate is, of course, love. But what are love and hate? Second-hand emotions, to evoke the recently deceased Tina Turner, requiescat in pace? Or something more? Ama et fac quod vis,[…]
No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false. (Saint Justin, Martyr, +165)
The celebration of Pentecost Sunday brought into my heart the very valid question which I have been asking to myself all along: What does Pentecost mean to me? As a man, Christian, consecrated person as well as a priest, Pentecost for me is returning back to what Pope Francis terms as the second anointing. Pentecost[…]
On this feast of the Visitation, the last day of May, here are two musical renditions of the Magnificat, which Mary says – sings? – in today’s Gospel: The first, J.S. Bach’s magnificent rendering of Our Lady’s song of praise, published in 1733, likely for this very feast, based on an earlier version in 1723. Lutherans[…]
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI DURING THE PRAYER MEETING IN THE VATICAN GARDENS FOR THE CONCLUSION OF THE MARIAN MONTH OF MAYGrotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens Tuesday, 31 May 2005 Dear Brothers and Sisters, I join you with great joy at the end of this prayer meeting organized by[…]
“If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.” Our Lady of Fatima, July 13,[…]
