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
For those in the area in which I happen live, I’ve been asked to offer a few thoughts on ‘How Can We Know That God Exists?’, as part of the ongoing Theology on Tap series, this Thursday, March 21st, at 7 pm. See the current notice on the diocesan webpage, the location is to be[…]
As we enter into Passiontide, for our musical selection this week we present Palestrina’s O Bone Iesu, a short motet for four voices composed in 1588, just as the Protestant ‘Reformation’ was kicking into high gear, with persecutions a-plenty. The true reform is only through Christ, and His redemptive sacrifice. The text runs as follows:[…]
Here is Pope Saint John Paul II’s final Lenten meditation, which he finished on September 8th, 2004 – the birthday of Our Lady – just before his death on April 2nd, 2005. A fitting recollection on the joy – and sacrifice – of ageing well, as a gift from God to ‘do good’, while we[…]
When Sadi Carnot formulated the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the early 19th century, a law also known as the law of entropy, people did not at first believe it, or want to believe it. Everyone had held what was proposed by the First Law of Thermodynamics, which states the the quantity of energy in[…]
Therefore, a person who has hope, hopes to attain God, and hopes to obtain through him all necessities, however difficult, and to repel through him all harms, however difficult (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
“They that hope in the LORD will renew their strength, they will soar on eagles’ wings; They will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint.” (Is 40:31) Chastisements and different kinds of calamities are breaking out all over the world. For the Church in Western Europe, North America and Australia, Good Friday[…]
For some reason, the saints on these two days in mid-March, buried in the midst of these Lenten days, have had some connection with Islam: March 12th was the commemoration of Saint Theophanes the Chronicler (ca. 758 – 818), from a noble Byzantine family, who used his wealth to set up his own monastery –[…]
Today marks the eleventh anniversary of the election of Jorge Borgoglio to the Chair of Saint Peter as Pope Francis. Whatever one thinks of him, and his controversial papacy, we should pray for the man, his soul and his tenure, and that God’s will be done, as holy and as perfect as it might be[…]
I’m not sure how much of Dr. Robin May’s presentation (posted below) of the human fossil record is science, or fiction – like most hypothetical theories without a whole lot of evidence, probably a bit of both, and I would tend more heavily towards the latter than the former. The bones, when one delves into[…]
Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can. (Saint Dominic Savio, +1857)
