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
If you choose, you can keep the commandments, and they will save you… [God] has not commanded anyone to be wicked, and He has not given anyone permission to sin (Sir. 15:15, 20). The Gospel of St. Matthew presents Our Lord as the new Moses or lawgiver who explains the precepts of the Old Law[…]
There is a fin de siècle feel in the air, akin to what people must have felt in 1914 on eve of the Great War – which was meant to end all wars. As Europe descended into the madness of that maelstrom, Cardinal Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa was elected Pope, taking the name[…]
I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. There I shall find my Mother in all the splendor of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of[…]
On the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, back in 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II promulgated an Apostolic Letter on the mystery of human suffering, Salvifici Doloris (the same year he made his first apostolic journey to Canada. One priest in a talk I heard mentioned that it may be remembered as one of[…]
O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won! (Saint Josephine Bakhita, +1947)
Against the restrictions of Traditionis Custodes and its accompanying draconian dubia, traditionally-minded bishops (would that adjective were superfluous!) always had a recourse in Canon 87.1, which stated that: A diocesan bishop, whenever he judges that it contributes to their spiritual good, is able to dispense the faithful from universal and particular disciplinary laws issued for[…]
There are moments of grace in life, in a world so immersed with death. Here, a little girl is rescued from the rubble after the earthquake in Turkey. Funny, how bringing a child out alive from a dark and hidden place brings such joy, as it well should: A little Turkish girl is saved. pic.twitter.com/k0IHgRCwoK[…]
We ought to boast about the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom we have our salvation, life and resurrection,* through whom we have been redeemed and saved. (Saint Paul to the Galatians)
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it it really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. – G.K. Chesterton
Saint John of Brito (1647 – 1693) was a Jesuit martyr in India, called the ‘Portuguese Francis Xavier’, as well as second Saint John the Baptist, for his witness to the sanctity of marriage. From a wealthy family, he left all to follow Christ, joining the Jesuits in 1662, and, after his formation, was sent[…]
