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
Michaelmas of 1724 – the 29th of September, now the feast of all the Archangels – saw the first performance of J.S. Bach’s cantata, Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, (Lord God, we all praise thee), honouring the great Saint Michael, ‘he who is like God’. The text of the cantata was Paul Eber, Lutheran[…]
In reply to Father Scott Murray’s article “The Perpetual Virginity of St. Joseph?”, which is in turn a response to my article “Saint Joseph’s Perpetual Virginity and the Apocrypha,” allow me to say these few words, specifically addressing one of Father Murray’s comments from his, which is the following: “From a theological perspective his virginity[…]
In time of Britain’s greatest need during World War II, no other nation helped Britain more than Poland. Yet, Britain’s most important ally later became enslaved under Soviet’s Iron Curtain, while Britain achieved total freedom. Poland, a predominantly Catholic nation, thus switched from being under Nazi Germany’s tyranny, to Communist Soviet’s tyranny – a brutal[…]
My God, it grieves me greatly that you are not known, that in this savage wilderness all have not been converted to you, that sin has not been driven from it. My God, even if all the brutal tortures which prisoners in this region must endure should fall on me, I offer myself most willingly[…]
Hermanus of Reinchenau (1013 – 1054) called ‘Contractus’ due to the deformity purportedly caused by spina bifida and a cleft palate (as well as suffering from cystic fibrosis) – was a remarkable figure in the middle ages, a veritable renaissance man well before the renaissance, even if he did not quite look the part. Like[…]
All I can say is, amen. With their added freedom of choice, and funding, for educational choices, from homeschooling to private academies, we can only hope, even against hope, that that the rest of Canada follow suit. Get rid of Trudeau Senior’s sappy socialist ‘Charter of Rights and Freedoms’, and give us a real constitution.[…]
(In light of today’s official ‘feast’ of Our Lady of Walsingham, September 24th, the premier Marian shrine in the British Isles, I am re-posting here my slightly modified and updated reflections on my own pilgrimage there in the summer of 2018…Ah, better days of yore. Also, England was re-consecrated as ‘Our Lady’s Dowry’ on May[…]
September 24th is the traditional memorial of Our Lady of Ransom, also called Our Lady of Mercy, one which goes back to the twelfth century, invoking the Blessed Mother and her patronage to help free slaves, especially from capture by the Muslims. What is old is new again. For a history of this feast, here[…]
In 1942, Catholic priest and apologist Ronald Knox remarked: A quite new hatred of the Catholic religion is growing up within my own lifetime – a hatred of its strict principles on certain points, which our neighbors … dislike as being a criticism of their own conduct, and a criticism which in their heart of[…]
This 23rd of September is a significant day not only for the universal Church and our beloved Franciscan Capuchin Order, but also for me, personally, for today we celebrate the feast day of Padre Pio. This great man, the humble friar who prays, was, like St Francis before him, a living prayer, with much to[…]
