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
(Last words are always – or almost always – indicative, and one could reach much into these words of Pope Benedict XVI on his last Easter Vigil as Pope. The light cannot be extinguished, for, as Christ promised, the darkness cannot overcome it. Truth and goodness always win, in the end…A very blessed Easter to[…]
Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you. (Mk 16:6-7)
Today is the solemnity of Easter! After three days in the tomb Jesus has fulfilled his promise that He would resurrect for life eternal. As an infinite loving God He resurrected us with Him. Blessed are we if we assent in faith to let Him do so! The Church Fathers spoke at length on this[…]
Holy Saturday is the day in-between Good Friday and the Easter Vigil, when the Church is silent, bells go quiet, Churches are stripped and bare. The whole Christian community, with Mary, is waiting for Jesus’ Resurrection. In the Liturgy of the Hours we get the holy experience when the Son of God, Jesus Christ Our[…]
Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world[…]
On the theme of suffering on this Good Friday, there is a pertinent and evocative reflection by James Bogle on OnePeterFive on the bombing of Japanese Catholicism – that is, the unnecessary destruction of Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945, three days after the incineration of Hiroshima on August 6th. We have written of the evils[…]
IT IS DONE! Deep into His Passion; deep into my soul Now is the time! Commit to be whole Sad that it is, my will did part ‘Twas my beginning carried deep in my heart As sunrise came and sunset went Year after year, I lived Duty Lent Oh! How I strived to[…]
Today is the first day of the Divine Mercy Novena which can be found here. Eternal Father, God, You are eternal. Time is not something You exist within. There is no motion in You. You are here and now. All I know is motion and change, and so it is hard for me to wrap[…]
On this Holy Saturday, as come to the end of a long and difficult Lent for so many, these final messages of Pope Saint John Paul II, who, on that Holy Saturday of 2005, his life nearly at its own end, offered such a sublime example of ‘suffering well’, may offer some comfort and consolation:[…]
Popule Meus, by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Christ’s lament from the Cross, ‘My People, what have I done to you, or in how have I offended you? Answer me!’ The Reproaches, also by Victoria, who wrote the music before it was imitated by Thorin and company, who sound like monks, and not the other way around:[…]
