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 Marian commemoration dates back to very early in the Church’s history. In fact, it is the first ‘vision’ of Our Lady. As the story has been handed down, Mary appeared to Saint James the Apostle (the ‘Greater’) in the year 40 or so, as he was discouraged in his evangelizing efforts in Hispania (Spain).[…]
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. (Pope Saint John XXIII, +1963)
Born in Kyrgyzstan under Soviet repression, to intensely devout Catholic parents, the future Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider was essentially raised in the Catholic underground. His parents, who had been prisoners in the Gulag, would often travel dozens of kilometers under the cover of darkness to attend Mass. Had they been captured, the consequences would have[…]
On this day in 1846, astronomer William Hessel discovered Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, just 17 days after Johann Galle discovered the gas giant itself. Rather an impressive feat, for home-built telescopes. Technology has come a long way, in more ways than one. I serendipitously came across a series of impressive videos[…]
Saint Francis Borgia (1510 – 1572) was a true renaissance man, who lived two lives in one – first, as a married layman, then as a Jesuit priest, who is often described as the second founder of the Order. Francis was from the noble family of the Borgias – ‘noble’ being used here in the[…]
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. (Saint John Henry Newman, +1890)
I will not shrink from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to this country, were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion, than at present it shows itself to be.[1] Saint John Henry Newman Newman’s point in this startling statement is that superstition and religion[…]
Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)
Feckless: Lacking purpose; without skill, ineffective, incompetent; lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way. As another hurricane hurtles towards Florida – possibly a catastrophic Category-5, and this after the destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene a couple of weeks ago – we read of the bizarre, irresponsible, if not outright intentional, behaviour of FEMA,[…]
(During this time of crisis, and on this day when we have asked to pray and fast for world peace, we thought we would re-post this piece by Father Scott Murray, on the benefits of the Rosary on this memorial. I did not realize that Leo XIII’s estimated ’88 encyclicals’ are the same number as[…]
