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
APOSTOLIC VISIT TO TORONTO, TO CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA AND TO CIUDAD DE MÉXICO CANONIZATION OF JUAN DIEGO CUAUHTLATOATZIN HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II Mexico City, Wednesday July 31, 2002 1. “I thank you, Father … that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father,[…]
Amare nesciri – ‘love to be unknown’ – exhorted Saint Philip Neri (+1595), founder of the Oratorians, who himself was an unknown young tutor in Florence, living in a loft, in the early 16th century. At the same time, thousands of miles across the ocean in the mountainous region outside of what is now Mexico[…]
For this Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – and a blessed one may it be – here is the opening section to a motet to the glorious Virgin Mother of God by the great English Thomas Tallis (the full motet runs to 18 minutes or so). The manuscript dates from either late in the reign[…]
Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou – I am the Immaculate Conception These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, which she spoke in the local French patois, when the young saint asked the ‘beautiful lady’ who she was. Bernadette had no idea what they meant, and had to memorize them as she[…]
HOLY MASS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DOGMA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Wednesday, 8 December 2004 “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” (Lk 1: 28). We address[…]
Lady, full and overflowing with grace, all creation receives new life from your abundance. Virgin, blessed above all creatures, through your blessing all creation is blessed, not only creation from its Creator, but the Creator himself has been blessed by creation. (Saint Anselm, +1109)
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Saint Ambrose of Milan Dear Brothers and Sisters, Holy Bishop Ambrose – about whom I shall speak to you today – died in Milan in the night between 3 and 4 April 397. It was dawn on Holy Saturday. The day before, at[…]
December 6th, the memorial of jolly Saint Nicholas, is also the sombre 35th anniversary of what is known as the ‘Montreal Massacre’ in 1989, when Marc Lepine, whose original name was Gamil Gharbi, killed fourteen people, before killing himself, in what he claimed was a ‘anti-feminist’ rampage through École Polytechnique school of engineering. Mark Steyn[…]
Saint Nicholas of Myra (+343) has gone down in legend in more ways than one. His general story follows below, but through the years has developed into the genial ‘Santa Claus’, the rotund, cherubic figure, a creation of the cartoonist Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly in 1881, with the red suit and ample physiognomy, which[…]
As part of the disastrous influence of Justin Trudeau’s government, euthanasia continues its metastasis through the body politic of Canada. After its initial legalization in 2016, MAiD – medical murder-suicide, euphemistically, medical assistance in dying – was expanded, removing the criterion of foreseeable death. All you need now is an ‘irremediable’ medical condition, like, say,[…]
