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
I finally read Dignitas Infinita, the recent document on human dignity from the DDF (Dicastery – formerly Congregation – for the Doctrine of the Faith). Hopefully, these few thoughts complement those of Dr. Alexander Lozano. Much ink has already been spilled, and I will say that, on first glance, it is good the Church reaffirms[…]
To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints. (Saint Josemaria Escriva, +1975)
A quality that has defined my ten years of priesthood and most of my life is a consistent and deep devotion to St. Joseph. Therefore, I was intrigued to read Joshua Filipetto’s article, St. Joseph’s Perpetual Virginity and the Apocrypha, which made me question some of my opinions regarding St. Joseph. The phrase “the perpetual[…]
On this 25th day of June, we as Capuchins jubilantly celebrate the feast day of Blessed Jacques of Ghazir. This great Lebanese Capuchin is truly a gem within the history of our Order not only in dear Lebanon but also where the Capuchins went, are and will be. His name was Yaaqub El-Haddad, the third[…]
I don’t watch professional sports, but made one brief exception last night to watch the third, and final, period in the NHL playoff game. I was wandering the streets of the town in which I live – it’s not very big – praying an evening Rosary, and stopped by the door of a house of[…]
(The term ‘utopia’ was coined by the great statesman and martyr, Thomas More, in his 1516 book by the same name. It literally means ‘no place’, but comes to mean a ‘perfect place’, often in an ideal sense. More’s book is taken as a satire on Henry VIII’s England, on the impossibility of building such[…]
William of Vercelli (1085 -1142) was a tenth-century hermit, and almost-accidental founder of an Order, the Congregation of Monte Vergine, also called the ‘Williamites’. He sometimes takes his name from the mountain on which he set up his monastery. Two things we may draw from his hidden life, which ended up shining like the proverbial[…]
On this Solemnity of Saint John the Baptist, in 1724, Bach first presented one of several cantatas he composed on the great saint and precursor of Christ, Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (Christ our Lord came to the Jordan). Unlike other more iconoclastic Protestants, Lutherans kept much of the iconography, statuary and saints of[…]
He must increase, but I must decrease. (John 3:30)
Fear no one….Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven (Mt. 10: 26, 32). Our Lord addresses these words to us as He did to His Apostles; and we need these words of encouragement and reassurance as we contend with the challenges of remaining faithful to the[…]
