The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength. (Saint Peter Damian, +1072)
Year: 2023
Pray a great deal for governments. Pity those governments which persecute the religion of Our Lord. If governments left the Church in peace and gave liberty to the Holy Religion, they would be blessed by God (Saint Jacinta Marto, +1920)
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown – Saint John Henry Newman
Sunday Poem: A Riddle
The Professor loved to laugh. Social propriety piqued him. Practiced in the Grand Art of Comedy, he was an untiring scoffer; an assailant on the dismal. He knew the Acacacademy feared scandal and that they took him for a fool. Didn’t care. He made a little joke just the same. The Fool (for[…]
Saint Joseph’s Catholic – But is his High School?
At what point do we here in Ontario stop calling Catholic schools, Catholic? A name, says the Catechism, expresses a person’s essence. And what applies to persons applies also, by extension, to societies, schools, presidents, prime ministers… My local area has made international news of late, when just a Catholic – we will use the[…]
The God of Love: Christ in the Song of Songs
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. (Gen 3:19) You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. (Song 4:7) Isn’t it ironic that, despite all[…]
D.I.E. – The Triad of a New Religion
Part III (b) – O Equity! [Diversity and Inclusivity have been introduced earlier. The third person of the unholy triad Equity is the most complex and egregious among them. This essay considers Equity as a concept in its origin and thereafter, as it drew in several ideas that have permeated, conjugated with, enshrouded, enlightened, negated[…]
Musical Offering: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus
In honour of the new archbishop-elect to Canada’s largest diocese, for our musical selection this week, we offer two version of the great motet Ecce Sacerdos Magnus – Behold the Great High Priest. The first by Anton Bruckner, composed in 1885 for the centenary of the founding of the diocese of Linz – even if[…]
A New Archbishop for Toronto
Pope Francis has appointed a new archbishop for Toronto, Auxiliary Bishop Frank Leo, after accepting the resignation of Thomas Cardinal Collins (Bishops are required to submit a resignation letter to the Pope on their 75th birthday, and the Pope is free to decide whether or not to accept the resignation; there is often some dialogue[…]
Papal Messages from Lourdes
On this feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, it would be beneficial to remind ourselves of the papal messages which have been given to us through this worldly known Shrine. I want to start with that given to us by Pope St John Paul II in 2004, from the homily he preached on Sunday 15[…]