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
As Christians we believe in miracles because the Gospels tell us of miracles performed by Jesus. No founder of any other world religion ever performed miracles, nor did any disciple of such founders ever claim that such power was possessed by the founder. Abraham, whose legacy of belief in one God includes the Jewish, Christian,[…]
May 8th is the traditional feast day of Our Lady of Pompeii, which reminds us of the power of the Marian prayer of the Rosary, through which the Lord turned a city given to paganism and sin into a city of grace and forgiveness, thanks to the protection of Mary, Our Lady of the Holy[…]
Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can (Saint Dominic Savio, +1857)
I had trouble at first believing it, but I just checked, and it’s true: the English translations of Pope Saint John Paul II’s Wednesday audiences have been deleted from the Vatican website: Vatican website's censorship of Pope John Paul II The English translations of Pope John Paul II's general audience addresses, that contained his catechesis,[…]
Someone once said to me, “I don’t need a priest to forgive my sins. I go directly to God.” I shuddered, hoping that he didn’t realize the import of what he was saying, for no one goes directly to God: “There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”[1] Furthermore, the essential[…]
Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him. (Saint James, the Lesser)
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 6 September 2006 Philip the Apostle Dear Brothers and Sisters, While we continue to outline the features of the various Apostles, as we have been doing for several weeks, today we meet Philip. He always comes fifth in the lists of the Twelve (cf. Mt 10: 3;[…]
On this first day of May, dedicated to Mary, in this year after the 400th anniversary year of the death of one of England’s finest composers, William Byrd, we thought it fitting to post one of his madrigals dedicated to the Virgin and to this month: This Sweet and Merry Month of May was first published[…]
Here’s an intriguing, and for some, disturbing, take on the publishing industry: https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books The title is a bit misleading, in a provocative way, for people are still ‘buying books’, just not in the traditional and historical manner in which people used to buy books. Most of the money is made off what is called the[…]
On this Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, let us consider another article which was published on this very same feast day of May 1 in 2019 on Bishop Robert Barron’s Word on Fire website. This article, titled “Ite ad Joseph” and written by Br. Bartholomew Calvano, O.P., from the Dominicans of the Province of[…]
