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
(In light of today’s Gospel, on the calling of Levi, and our Lord eating with ‘tax collectors and sinners’, here are some fitting words on what holiness means from contributor Carl Sundell). Pope Benedict XVI knew knew the foremost item on his agenda. “First of all, I have no hesitation in saying that all pastoral[…]
(This sermon by Rev. Msgr. Vincent Nicholas Foy was preached at the evening Mass a week before Ash Wednesday that year, on Sunday, February 12, 1956, and is perhaps more applicable today than those more traditional days of half a century ago. Monsignor Foy died on March 13, 2017, at the age of 101, after[…]
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. (Saint Thomas Aquinas, +1274)
T.S. Eliot published his poem Ash Wednesday in 1930, after he had composed during his conversion to Anglicanism (in 1927). The theme is, fittingly, the soul in its journey to find God, with allusions to the world, the flesh, the devil, and, on the other side, Christ, Our Lady and Dante’s Purgatorio. An excerpt, which[…]
Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris – Remember, O man, that dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return.
Our nation is in great turmoil; and those who should provide us with moral leadership are either completely silent or dithering as they assess the political landscape in the hope of making most of any crisis for partisan gains. They are not public servants; rather, they act or fail to act, in the interests of[…]
Grant me meekness, love of harmony and purity; Make me strong and constant on the path of righteousness. (Part of a prayer to the Blessed Virgin, found in the hands of the incorruptible body of Saint Casimir, +1484)
(As a pre-Lenten meditation on this Eighth Sunday, here is an apologia from Carl Sundell on the truth of the Resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. After all, as Saint Paul himself alludes, the purpose of all our striving – all our prayers, works, joys and sacrifices, all of what we do and[…]
Father Martin Hilbert, C.O. has written a remarkable book. His ‘The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design’, an argument for seeing God’s handiwork and providence in the order and beauty of creation, covers a lot of ground: evolution, genetics, anthropology, and, of course, philosophy and theology. The overarching purpose of the book is to ally faith[…]
(What follows is an open letter to the editor of various local papers where I live, and I thought it would do for a wider audience, with the author’s permission. What’s in the works here, is in the works across Canada, and will only get worse should Mark Carney ever become Prime Minster. I’ve wondered[…]
