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
It was on this day in a Parisian summer in 1794 – one day after the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – that sixteen female members of the Carmelite Order, located at Compiègne – one day after their patronal feast – lined up one by one in the Place de la Révolution (now more ironically[…]
In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear. (Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, +1897)
Some days have more ‘history’ to them than others, today’s July 16th being one of them. As I just wrote, it is the memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and the vision to Saint Simon Stock of the scapular in 1251. As though to corroborate that, this was also the last of 18 appearances[…]
Saint Simon Stock (1165-1265) was an English Carmelite, who helped establish the ancient contemplative Order in England and Italy, founding monasteries in Cambridge, Oxford, and Bologna. He organized the first Chapter of the Carmelites outside the Holy Land, at Aylesford, in Kent, in 1247, where there is still a Carmel to this day. The origins[…]
The feast of Mount Carmel is one that means much to me personally, with many fond memories in my childhood and adulthood where Our Lady of Mount Carmel has always been magnificently present. To begin with, when I was a child I used to go to the fields of my late uncle Felix at Santa[…]
As the official government webpage puts it: …the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, and the Honourable Ya’ara Saks, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, highlighted the government’s plan to roll out the first phase of national universal pharmacare—an initiative that will be a part of[…]
July 13th was the 107th anniversary of the one of the visions to the children at Fatima, this one concerning hell, the consecration of Russia and the devotion to the Immaculate Heart. It was also the day that Donald J. Trump almost had his head blown off on live television, the bullet from the assassin’s[…]
As the secular world celebrates the French revolution on July 14th, during which thousands of innocent human persons simply were guillotined by ferocious people whose hunger for power made them forget that they were dealing with other human beings, the Church celebrates one of her own great revolutionaries. But this revolution was not political, but[…]
Blessed Simon was born in Lipnica Murowana, in the south of Poland, between the years 1435-1440. His parents, Gregory and Anne, knew how to give him a good education, inspired by the values of the Christian faith, and, despite their modest conditions, they took care to secure him an adequate cultural formation. Simon grew up[…]
Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature. (Saint[…]
