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
Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate was principally marked by his extraordinary gift of teaching. His homilies can be easily seen as catechetical, much on the lines of the great fathers of the Church. This applies to his eight homilies on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In the homily on this feast, January 8,[…]
Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptized; let us also go down with him, and rise with him. (Saint Gregory Nazianzen, +390)
SOLEMNITY OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS St Peter’s Square Sunday, 13 January 2008 Dear Brothers and Sisters, With today’s Feast of Jesus’ Baptism the liturgical Season of Christmas concludes. The Child, who the Magi from the East came to adore at Bethlehem offering their symbolic gifts, we now find an adult, at[…]
I agree with the good Doctor’s diagnosis, but would demur with his prognosis. The rise of a totalitarian regime, based on our biometric data and submission to dubious health protocols, signals a diminution of freedom and, like the merry band of rebels in the trash compactor of the Death Star in the first Star Wars[…]
There is much that might be said concerning this revelatory tweet – the cult-like mode of the response to covid, for one. This is uncomfortably close to Jim Jones Kool-aid. Her notion of love is also at least as problematical. ‘Anti-vaxxers did everything out of hate’, while the vaxxed, even if poisoned, radiate pure, unadorned[…]
Let the full number of the nations now take their place in the family of the patriarchs. Let the children of the promise now receive the blessing in the seed of Abraham, the blessing renounced by the children of his flesh. In the persons of the Magi let all people adore the Creator of the[…]
On this January 4th in 2010, the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, topping out at 2,722 ft (just over half a mile high) opened to the public. Impressive in its own way, even if a bit Babel-esque, and one wonders how many migrant workers were used in the project at quasi-slave wages,[…]
Canada, and various jurisdictions in Europe and the U.S., plan to make gasoline-powered vehicles, at least of the personal variety, more or less illegal. They will be phased out over time, of course, but ever-more difficult to find, and repair. The problem with everyone and everything going green – and electric vehicles in particular –[…]
If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better. (Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, +1821)
The new year begins with the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, and, in 2023, with the departure of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. We might take this opportunity to appreciate some of his Mariological reflections. For Benedict, Our Mother Mary is the exemplar of beauty, goodness and purity of heart. Her shining example inspires[…]
