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
Edith Stein (+ 1942) was a brilliant philosopher, earning her doctorate summa cum laude in August of 1916 on the problem of empathy – understanding the suffering of others. Fitting, for she came into in the world in 1891 on Yom Kippur, the high holy Jewish Day of Atonement. Brought up in an observant Judaic household of[…]
A reader sent in the follow request, to pray and support the cause of life in South Dakota, which has been a ‘pro-life’ state, but may soon become a pro-death with the upcoming vote and elections on November 5th. As he alludes, with the fall of Roe, the battle for life is now state by[…]
(Some thoughts from a few years ago, in the midst of the Covidian panic, with a lesson from an heroic Canadian physiologist which bears repeating, for history repeats itself, and we must learn therefrom). On this August 7th, back in 1962, Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian-American physician/pharmacologist (who hailed from bucolic and beautiful Cobble Hill,[…]
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil. (Saint Dominic, +1221)
The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, issued from the Second Vatican Council, emphasized the point that every person has a vocation to holiness. The word “vocation” stems from the Latin word vocare which means “to call.” Within each person’s call to holiness is a particular vocation such as the priesthood, marriage, and religious[…]
Quebec is a paradox, much like France, whose offshoot she is. So Catholic on the outside: majestic churches towering over the countryside and cities, place names evoking saints and a bygone era, and even pockets and remnants of the true Faith here and there. Yet that same Faith no longer infuses and informs the culture,[…]
“All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.” From the Catechism of the Catholic Church Purgatory is traditionally defined by the Catholic Church as[…]
Let us run with confidence and joy to enter into the cloud like Moses and Elijah, or like James and John. Let us be caught up like Peter to behold the divine vision and to be transfigured by that glorious transfiguration. Let us retire from the world, stand aloof from the earth, rise above the[…]
It is with sadness that we note, on this Sunday, and the memorial of the patron saint of priests, the passing into eternity of Father Leo Ramsperger, who died last Friday, August 2nd, the commemoration of the Portiuncula, we may add, at the venerable age of 100, and a priest for 70 years. Very few[…]
Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours. (Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, +1859)
