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
Call me a sentimentalist, but it’s one of my favourite short stories, evoking an Ireland that no longer is, but may be again: https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/walshm-quietman/walshm-quietman-00-h.html The 1952 film version of The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, as is usual for Hollywood, takes great liberties with its source material, and is really a different[…]
An eleven-year-old boy in our neighbourhood told me that for today’s eclipse passing through Eastern Ontario, he was going to fill up a big bowl of water and look at the phenomenon in the reflection to protect his eyes. I immediately thought of how we cannot behold God directly but only indirectly due to His[…]
Monsignor Antonio Vivaldi was not only one of the greatest of Baroque composers, but also a Catholic priest, who directed a girls’ orphanage, for whose residents he wrote much of his music – for which we are quite grateful. His Magnificat – fitting on this feast of the Presentation of Our Lady (and see previous[…]
Signs can be ambiguous, or they can be very certain. There are the ‘signs’ of the sacraments fall into the latter category, given to us to ensure we are given grace, in its various forms, not least the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Then there are the certain signs of the approved[…]
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father (John 1:14)
