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
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (Lk. 21: 36). The first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of a new liturgical year. In the cycle of the sacred liturgy, this is Year A, during which the Sunday Gospel readings will be taken from the Gospel[…]
A blessed feast of Saint Andrew to all our readers! Today, the last day of November, were it not the first Sunday of Advent, we would be celebrating the first Apostle called, along with his brother, the first Pope. It is quite close to my own heart, as Andrew’s patronage includes not only my native[…]
At the first coming he was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At his second coming he will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming he endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming he will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels. (Saint Cyril[…]
As the saying goes, they always get their man, or woman, especially if they’re old, sick and/or enfeebled. One week after Remembrance Day, November 20th, the RCMP sent out a memo to their veterans – a curious term for police officers, tasked with overseeing civilians and not fighting wars – that euthanasia was available, free[…]
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
November 27th is the anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1830 to Saint Catherine Labouré (1806 – 1876), a Visitation Sister, during her evening meditation. Our Lady was so real, reported Sister Catherine, that she could feel the folds on her dress, and whose beauty she could not describe. The Mother[…]
Sam Harris, on his latest tour, recently claimed that with a few psychedelics, his genuine instruction on how to attend to the nature of one’s mind, and proper meditative practice, we would no longer need the Bible—nor regard it with such reverence. For Harris, understanding scripture as the word of God is incompatible with true[…]
In one of those ironies of God’s history – choosing what seems weak to confound the apparently strong – the patron saint of philosophers is a teenage virgin martyr from the fourth century. Catherine of Alexandria (+305) dedicated herself to study ‘from a young age’, as her disputed biography (written centuries after her death) relates.[…]
On this memorial of the Martyrs of Vietnam, we commemorate a whole panoply of white-robed witnesses, Christians, bishops, priests, Franciscans, Dominicans, lay men, women and children, who were put to death in the most horrific of ways in the series of persecutions in that troubled country in the 17th to 19th centuries. There were thousands[…]
This last Sunday of the liturgical year is the Solemnity of Christ the King, and a blessed and grace-filled on may it be for all our readers. The feast was originally celebrated on the last Sunday of October (where it remains in the usus antiquior) but was transferred to this more eschatological place in the calendar in[…]
