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
Pope Zephyrinus, whose feast is traditionally celebrated on August 26th, governed the Church for 18 years at the end of the third century (199 – 217), during the persecution of Emperor Septimus Severus. In accord with Saint Paul’s warning to the Corinthians that heresies are sure to come (11:19), heresies did indeed abound from the[…]
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)
According to the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain in his 1952 book The Range of Reason, there are Christians who, to all intents and purposes, think and behave more like atheists than Christians. These are people who call themselves Christian, but by their actions show that they do not really believe what they say they believe.[…]
A hymn to Our Lady of Częstochowa, from the shrine at Jasna Gora: And from World Youth Day in Poland, back in 2016, which may as well be 1016:
A blessed feast of Saint Bartholomew, to one and all! Like many of the Apostles, we don’t know all that much about the life of today’s saint. Our Tradition identifies Bartholomew with the ‘Nathaniel’ – which means ‘God has given’ – the enigmatic figure in the first chapter of Saint John’s Gospel. When the Apostle[…]
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on[…]
(To remind readers, letters to the editor are very welcome, and those judged pertinent can be posted, with permission, and with some commentary in the spirit of charitable dialogue and critique in search of the fullness and splendour of truth). So, in that spirit, Richard Yates from England writes: I don’t think Carl Sundell is[…]
On August 22nd, the Church celebrates the feast of the Queenship of Mar, honouring Mary’s unique role as Mother of God and Queen of Heaven. It was the venerable Pope Pius XII who, inspired by the Holy Spirit and the longstanding Marian devotion for the Queenship of Mary, instituted this feast. By instituting this feast[…]
To celebrate this memorial – let’s just call it the feast – of the Queenship of Mary, here is Palestrina’s rendition of the Regina Coeli, first published posthumously in 1601. May Our Lady’s reign extend through heaven and earth:
Therefore, when the Virgin of virgins was led forth by God and her Son, the King of kings, amid the company of exulting angels and rejoicing archangels, with the heavens ringing with praise, the prophecy of the psalmist was fulfilled, in which he said to the Lord: At your right hand stands the queen, clothed in[…]
