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 we were celebrating the Third Sunday of Easter, the Capuchin Order was commemorating in his burning love for Jesus and his Church the liturgical memorial of Blessed Thomas of Olera. This great and humble Capuchin who worked in the Tyrolese part of Austria passionately promoted the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by[…]
If the case is as it seems to be and the newest generation of voters is simultaneously more wounded, jaded, and emotionally immature than ever before — then a different pro-life messaging approach is needed — one which might abstract the issue. America is facing a crisis of empathy. Perhaps not unrelatedly, the pro-life movement[…]
To the One who is sitting on the throne and to the Lamb, be all praise, honour, glory and power, for ever and ever. (Apocalypse 5:14)
Besides being ‘Star Wars Day’ May the Fourth is also, more realistically, the traditional commemoration of the Shroud of Turin, claimed to be the burial cloth of Christ – and there is much evidence that it is. But this is no ordinary cloth, for on it is imprinted – without any explicable scientific means, then[…]
Jesus Christ the righteous…he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. (1 Jn 2:1-2) The Easter Season is a privileged time of catechesis or instruction both for the newly-baptized and for all of us who renewed our baptismal vows on Easter[…]
There is a trio of Canadian Saints in this week: Saint Marie of the Incarnation, on the last day of April; Saint Francois de Laval, on the 6th of May; and today, the little-known Blessed Marie-Leonie Paradis. Born on May 12th in 1840, baptized as Alodie-Virginie, in Quebec, she would also die in Mary’s month,[…]
“If a man has made up his mind that a certain wrong course is the right one, the more he follows his conscience, the more hopeless he is as a wrongdoer. One is pretty far gone in an evil way when one serves the devil conscientiously.” H.C. Trumbull Any treatment of conscience should begin with[…]
Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But[…]
Philip and James, Apostles, have been celebrated together on this third day in May since the revision of the calendar in 1969. They were originally commemorated on May 1st, the anniversary of the church dedicated to them in Rome, but that day was adopted as Saint Joseph the Worker by Pius XII in 1955, as[…]
The head of the Holy Family, terror of demons, and protector of the holy Church – St. Joseph – enjoys the rare liturgical feat of having two annual feasts celebrated in his honor. The first and higher of these is the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on March 19; the[…]
