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
Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548 – 1611) composed this motet of lament sometime before 1585, when it was published. The text, below, is taken from Job 16:17; Lamentations 1:12, 16, and provides fitting music as we celebrate this Palm Sunday, and enter Holy Week. Our Schola Cantorum here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College[…]
While the sun’s light failed…the curtain of the temple was torn in two (Lk.23:45). Palm Sunday begins our observance of Holy Week, the Week of Salvation. The reading of Our Lord’s Passion places us at the foot of the cross with Our Lady and Our Lord’s most faithful disciples. In them we recognise the first[…]
Margaret of Castello (+1287 – 1320) is the patroness of the unborn, the disabled, the blind, for she herself was ‘disabled’, even if she may never have thought of herself that way – she had curvature of the spine, was blind, had a limp from legs of different length, and never grew more than four[…]
and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself (John 12:32)
Efficiency is not in itself a virtue. It may sometimes help towards virtue, but in much of life, it is not efficiency that is called for, but munificence, profusion and prodigality. In its strict etymology, ‘efficiency’ simply means being able to do something, and do it well –from the Latin, ex-facere. As language has evolved[…]
Last year on Palm Sunday we heard the passion from Saint Mark’s Gospel, and next year it will be from Saint Matthew. Each is different in detail from the other, and that holds for this year too, as we listen to Saint Luke’s account. Typically, Luke emphasizes the compassion of Jesus as when he prayed[…]
There are two saints commemorated on this April 12th. The first is Saint Sabbas the Goth (+372), a sort of ‘village fool’, but the wisest of fools, a fool for Christ. He lived in what is now Romania during the transition of the Goths – a barbaric, pagan Germanic tribe – to Christianity (they would[…]
Today, the Friday before Good Friday, in Malta and Gozo is celebrated the devotion of Our Lady of Sorrows. Today, all Malta and Gozo stand in silence before the image of the Pieta, Mary with her Son Jesus dead in her hands. Many are those who today feel the call to go to Mass, confession[…]
(P)reach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening[…]
Just about everything certain people – and you know who you are – warned about the mRNA jab has now revealed to be true. That it was, whether deliberately or not, leaked from a lab in Wuhan; that it doesn’t stay put in your arm; that it’s far from harmless, but has any number of[…]
