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
Claude de la Colombière (1641 – 1682) is known primarily for his role as the spiritual director of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, the recipient of numerous visions of the Sacred Heart, devotion to which she was asked to spread, in a quiet, anonymous way. But the good Jesuit did much more than this, counseling future[…]
JOHN PAUL II SLAVORUM APOSTOLI I. INTRODUCTION 1. THE APOSTLES OF THE SLAVS, Saints Cyril and Methodius, are remembered by the Church together with the great work of evangelization which they carried out. Indeed it can be said that their memory is particularly vivid and relevant to our day. Considering the grateful veneration enjoyed for[…]
This our European structure, built upon the noble foundations of classical antiquity, was formed through, exists by, is consonant to, and will stand only in the mold of, the Catholic Church. Europe will return to the Faith, or she will perish. The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)
On this February 13th we commemorate the mystic Dominican tertiary Saint Catherine Ricci (1522 – 1590), a contemporary of Saint Philip Neri (+1515 -1595), to whom she appeared by bilocation, one of her miracles for her canonization. Saint Philip was normally very reticent about such supernatural occurrences – one of his maxims was ‘secretum meum mihi’ – my[…]
(This is a revision of a previous post, with some new material – as the theme suggests, it’s difficult to keep up with the Trump and his administration…) Say what you like about Donald Trump, but he’s energetic for a man pushing 80, to put it mildly. Unlike his soporific predecessor, he seems in full[…]
Recently, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and its Dicastery for Culture collaborated in constructing a document on the Church’s most recent stance on the nature and use of Artificial Intelligence. In my first reading through this document, I was encouraged by the philosophical principles it put forward for the distinction between[…]
This tenth of February is for us Maltese is the feast of the baptism of our nation, for today all Maltese around the world celebrate the feast when St Paul was shipwrecked on our shores. With how much interest I look forward to the second reading for the solemn Mass of today! In that reading,[…]
If men knew the peace good Religious enjoy, the whole world would become a monastery (Saint Scholastica, +543)
But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying. ‘Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!’(Lk. 5:8) ⧾ As we continue to commemorate the mysteries of Our Lord’s earthly life, our Gospel reading records the call of the first apostles who left everything and followed Jesus (Lk.[…]
Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, ‘Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?’ I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage. (Saint Josephine Bakhita, +1947)
