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
A blessed Laetare Sunday to all our readers! This Fourth Sunday of Lent is named after the Introit, Laetare Ierusalem marking the halfway point through the Lenten pilgrimage, where the Church exhorts us to gaudete cum laetitia – to ‘rejoice with joy’. The colour of the vestments is softened from purple to rose, and we[…]
So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him (Lk. 15:20). ⧾ The parable of the Prodigal Son is perhaps one of the better known of Our Lord’s[…]
(W)hat I want is love, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not holocausts. (Hosea, 6:6)
It’s as rigorous as the ascetic lives of the desert monks, of the Eastern Fathers, and the glory days of the Trappists and Camaldolese. Only it’s not done freely, for the love of God, like these noble souls, but imposed upon all, to appease the false gods of climate. We’re all to become vegan spiritualists,[…]
I listened with some concern to the recent interview with Dr. Elizabeth Rex on LifeSite news, “The Moral Crisis of IVF: Can Catholics Adopt Frozen Embryos?”. During the discussion, Dr. Rex quoted selectively, incompletely and inaccurately from the two Magisterial document(s), Donum Vitae (1987) and Dignitatis Personae (2008). Here is the full relevant section of[…]
Christ suffered without sin on his hands, for he committed no sin and deceit was not found on his lips. Yet he suffered the pain of the cross for our redemption. His prayer to God was pure, his alone out of all mankind, for in the midst of his suffering he prayed for his persecutors: Father,[…]
The Catholic Encyclopedia explains that a sacrament “is an outward sign instituted by Christ to impart grace to the soul.” All Christians believe in at least one sacrament: Baptism. Some Protestants allow more than one, such as Matrimony, the Lord’s Supper, and Holy Orders. The Catholic Church has seven sacraments. Every Catholic sacrament is referenced[…]
March 25th is the Solemnity of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The centrality of this feast lies in the Latin words found in the Gospel of St John: Verbum Dei Caro Factum Est – the Word of God was made flesh (see John 1:14). This was also the motto St George Preca chose[…]
On this Solemnity of the Annunciation, here is a fitting motet to celebrate with true devotion. During his own life (c. 1455 – 1521) Josquin des Prez was known as the ‘Michelangelo of music’, which says much. Here is one of his first compositions, fittingly, a setting of the Ave Maria, as sung by Voces8,[…]
Please do enjoy this podcast on the great English saint Margaret Clitherow, or Clitheroe – spelling was variable back then, and even her contemporary Shakespeare’s name was spelled any number of different ways. She was one of the great martyrs of the Reformation, put to death by the gruesome method of being ‘pressed’. We mention[…]
