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
GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 20 June 2007 Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Dear Brothers and Sisters, Continuing our revisitation of the great Teachers of the ancient Church, let us focus our attention today on St Athanasius of Alexandria. Only a few years after his death, this authentic protagonist of the Christian tradition was[…]
Today, the second day of May, is the memorial of one of the most heroic bishops in the history of the Church, the great Saint Athanasius (+373), who stood contra mundum, against the world. He was mighty foe of the pernicious heresy of Arius, who denied the full divinity of Christ, and the hero of[…]
The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ[…]
In the waning years of the 19th century, before the war to end all wars at the dawn of the twentieth, followed by the imposition of ‘real socialism’ by Lenin and Stalin, the first day of May was adopted as ‘International Workers’ Day’, to celebrate the rights of the laborer, in light of Marx and[…]
If Joseph was so engaged, heart and soul, in protecting and providing for that little family at Nazareth, don’t you think that now in heaven he is the same loving father and guardian of the whole Church, of all its members, as he was of its Head on earth?” (Pope Pius XII, +1958)
Saint Joseph Cottolengo (1786 – 1842) signifies a life of total service to others. He was born the eldest of twelve children, into a comfortably well-off middle class family. He discerned a class to the priesthood, entered the seminary (eventually receiving a doctorate in theology), and was ordained a priest on June 8th, 1811. All[…]
Saint Marie of the Incarnation (1599 – 1672) was a mystic and missionary to Canada, contemporaneous with the first settlers of this wild and savage land, along with the Franciscans and Jesuits who brought the Faith. She was born Marie Guyart in 1599, in Tours, France, her father a baker, her mother a homemaker, who[…]
Michel Ghislieri was born as Anton in 1504, but took the name of the Archangel ‘who is like God’ when he joined the Dominican Order at the age of 14, and never looked back. Fitting, for his whole life was a spiritual battle, first, against his own sinful tendencies – against which he was merciless,[…]
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely (Saint Catherine of Siena, +1380)
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Hall Wednesday, 24 November 2010 Saint Catherine of Siena Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I would like to talk to you about a woman who played an eminent role in the history of the Church: St Catherine of Siena. The century in which she lived — the 14th —[…]
