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
On August 5th, we celebrate the dedication of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, the highest church in the hierarchy of churches dedicated to Our Lady in all of Christendom. The glorious edifice sits atop the Esquiline Hill, beside the palace of Victor Emmanuel II, just outside the Vatican City State, itself established on February[…]
Blessed Frédéric Janssoone, O.F.M. (1838 – 1916) hailed from France, from the town of Ghyvelde, in the northwest most corner, where the language was Flemish, and not French. After a difficult and impoverished, but holy and pious, upbringing, he joined the Friars Minor, spending his years of priestly ministry as custos of the sacred sites[…]
If we really understood the priest on earth, we would die not of fright but of love…. the Priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. (Saint Jean Marie Vianney, +1859, cf. CCC, #1589)
(Here is a very fitting and a propos review and meditation on this Solemnity of the Sacred Heart from Father Marco Testa on Saint Jean Vianney, the Curé d’Ars, the patron saint of priests. As the good Curé put it, if we really understood the priest on earth, we would die, not of fright, but[…]
On this day, August 4th, in 1859 – the same year that Darwin published his specious Origin of Species, and one year after Marx’s Communist Manifesto, both of which, sadly, shook the faith of many – the world witnessed the quiet passing into eternity of a most remarkable man, a simple country priest who lived[…]
(The holiness of the Church – and hence the salvation of the world – depends much upon the holiness of her priests. Hence, these words from Pope Benedict XVI from August 5th, 2009, on the Curé d’Ars ring as true and au courant today, and will unto the end of time). Editor. BENEDICT XVI GENERAL[…]
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God (Col 3: 2-3). The scripture lessons of the Mass make it very clear that we were created and redeemed by God for supernatural life in this world[…]
Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do nothing that can give greater glory to God or be more profitable for[…]
The Church commemorates two pastors today, separated by a millennium and a half: The fourth-century Eusebius of Vercelli (+371), the first bishop we know of in northern Italy, who has gone down in history as one of the great foes of the insidious heresy of Arianism, which taught that Christ was not truly God. Eusebius[…]
On Monday 2 August the universal Church celebrates what is called The Pardon of Assisi. This great feast, which ranks as a solemnity within the Franciscan festivities, is another great sign of the immense good the Lord himself performs to his Church and the world through the Franciscan movement. But what the Pardon of Assisi is[…]
