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
We are in the middle of Holy Week, the central week of our Christian faith, the Week of weeks. Pope Benedict, in his catechesis on the Holy Triduum of Easter, on Wednesday, 8 April 2009, gave us a convincing reason why this is so: Holy Week which for Christians is the most important week of the[…]
Lent is a fitting time for Christians to re-evaluate some of the essentials that are often taken for granted in the faith. Catholics are called to re-engage with our spiritual lives by focusing our prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Parishes offer extended times for confession alongside a dedicated service. Catechumens and other OCIA candidates begin their[…]
no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. (Rev 13:17) As a real-life follow up to our reflection on the rising algocracy – rule by algorithm – which goes along with a dictatorial bureaucracy, here is a recent troubling tale,[…]
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, “The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failures, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs.” Hope is the least talked about and most constant of all virtues. There is not a day passes[…]
Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548 – 1611) composed this motet of lament sometime before 1585, when it was published. The text, below, is taken from Job 16:17; Lamentations 1:12, 16, and provides fitting music as we celebrate this Palm Sunday, and enter Holy Week. Our Schola Cantorum here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College[…]
While the sun’s light failed…the curtain of the temple was torn in two (Lk.23:45). Palm Sunday begins our observance of Holy Week, the Week of Salvation. The reading of Our Lord’s Passion places us at the foot of the cross with Our Lady and Our Lord’s most faithful disciples. In them we recognise the first[…]
Margaret of Castello (+1287 – 1320) is the patroness of the unborn, the disabled, the blind, for she herself was ‘disabled’, even if she may never have thought of herself that way – she had curvature of the spine, was blind, had a limp from legs of different length, and never grew more than four[…]
and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself (John 12:32)
Efficiency is not in itself a virtue. It may sometimes help towards virtue, but in much of life, it is not efficiency that is called for, but munificence, profusion and prodigality. In its strict etymology, ‘efficiency’ simply means being able to do something, and do it well –from the Latin, ex-facere. As language has evolved[…]
Last year on Palm Sunday we heard the passion from Saint Mark’s Gospel, and next year it will be from Saint Matthew. Each is different in detail from the other, and that holds for this year too, as we listen to Saint Luke’s account. Typically, Luke emphasizes the compassion of Jesus as when he prayed[…]
