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 well as being the feast of the Transfiguration, and the anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI, this day also has the sombre 80th anniversary of the first of two uses – and so far only, praise God – of nuclear weaponry in war: On August 6th, 1945, ‘the bomb’, as it was[…]
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is hosting its annual Wojtyla Summer Conference from the 7th- 10th of August. The theme this year is the Seven Liberal Arts: Ordering the Soul. The weekend has talks, dialogue and good conversation, along with music, fine food and enjoying the beautiful outdoors of the Madawaska Valley, including Lake[…]
Mary, Mother of God, we salute you. Precious vessel, worthy of the whole world’s reverence, you are an ever-shining light, the crown of virginity, the symbol of orthodoxy, an indestructible temple, the place that held him whom no place can contain, mother and virgin. (Saint Cyril of Alexandria, +444)
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[…]
