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
This saint, one of the Church’s most illustrious missionaries. This is the apt description given to the Jesuit priest and saint St Francis Xavier, whose feast we celebrated on Tueday 3 December 2024, by Capuchin brother Fr Berchmans Bittle OFM Cap in his book A Saint A Day. When I think of St Francis Xavier spontaneously[…]
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy. In his youth he considered several careers: first the priesthood; next medicine at the urging of his father; finally mathematics as his own preference. His keen grasp of geometry especially contributed to his attempt to mathematically map the geography of Dante’s Inferno, for which he received much attention[…]
With its First Sunday we begin the season of Advent, and the Catechism has this to say: When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation for the Savior’s first coming, the faithful renew their ardent desire for[…]
There are few things more dispiriting to a gregarious theology/philosophy nerd than a conversation stopper. I get it, not everyone wants to explore these questions to their logical conclusion, just like not everyone wants to listen to that one kid we all know talk about dinosaurs all day, but oftentimes I am not even the[…]
Here is a worthy and beneficial novena to the Immaculate Conception, whose intercession is much needed in our world – she is the patroness of the United States – and very beneficial to our own souls.
Saint Bibiana (+ca. 363), who is commemorated today, a virgin martyred during the reign of Julian the Apostate (355-363), is the patroness of single laywomen, amongst her other heavenly duties (she is also invoked, for reasons I cannot discern, for hangovers, whether as a cure or as a prevention, but probably both). Single ladies could[…]
We need more thumos in the Catholic Church, the Platonic notion of ‘spirit, courage, wherewithal, steadfastness, zeal, magnanimity, capacity’ and we may add a host of other synonyms and related terms. Its opposites are manifest all around us: ‘cowardice, complacence, complaisance, softness, pusillanimity’, and I do not exempt myself from any of them. I strive[…]
Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength…to stand before the Son of Man (Lk.21: 36). ⧾ The first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of a new liturgical year; and during this year the Sunday Gospel readings will be taken from the Gospel of St. Luke, the Evangelist known as[…]
