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
Pope Francis (1936 – 2025), has died on this Easter Monday morning, after a controversial and often turbulent reign of just over 12 years. May he find a merciful judgement before his Maker, where the depths of the heart and conscience of a soul are revealed. Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine Et lux perpetua luceat[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 23 September 2009 [Video] Saint Anselm Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Benedictine Abbey of Sant’Anselmo [St Anselm] is located on the Aventine Hill in Rome. As the headquarters of an academic institute of higher studies and of the Abbot Primate of the Confederated Benedictines it is[…]
(From a Regina Coeli address of Pope Saint John Paul II, April 21st, 1996): Dear Brothers and Sisters, 1. In the liturgical season running from Easter to Pentecost, the Church is recollected in contemplation of the risen Christ. Thus she relives the primordial experience that lies at the basis of her existence. She feels imbued[…]
A blessed, joyous and grace-filled Easter to one and all! Christus resurrexit! Dominus surrexit vere! Alleluia! One of my favorite pieces of this season of joy is Gregor Aichinger’s Regina Coeli, first published in 1603, timeless ever since, and which we have sung many times in our College schola, and we sang it again last[…]
A very joyous and blessed Easter to all our readers! Alleluia! Here, we offer Bach’s Easter Oratorio, the companion piece to his Passions. First performed on Easter Sunday in Leipzig, April 1, 1725, the congregation – fortunate they were, with the great composer himself conducting – had just heard his Saint John’s Passion two days[…]
Christus resurrexit! Dominus, surrexit, vere, alleluia!
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. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory (Col. 3:3-4). ⧾ The Resurrection of Our Lord and[…]
Having passed through the veiling of images during Passion week to the Stripping of the Altar on Holy Thursday (for those of you who have never seen this rite: Maundy Thursday 1 April 2021 @St Anne’s — Stripping of the Altar), we come to the apparent, absolute, defeat of Good Friday and Holy Saturday, Christ,[…]
Over at OnePeterFive, editor T.S. Flanders urges us all to charity and not to ‘excommunicate’ each other (perhaps we might say ‘shun’). It’s a worthy endeavour, but therein he makes the following claim: in year of the reign of Jesus Christ 2025, all SSPX priests are in communion with the local bishop and Pope Francis.[…]
Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world[…]
