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
On March 21 and 22, we commemorate two saints by the name of Nicholas. The first is Nicholas of Flüe (1415 – 1487), patron saint of Switzerland. His life was unique, and perhaps not to be imitated: As a husband and father of ten children, he decided to retreat from his busy life as a[…]
‘I am the resurrection and the life…Do you believe this’? (Jn. 11:25-26). The fifth Sunday in Lent marks the beginning of Passiontide. We will now begin to recall the events most closely preceding the days of Our Lord’s Passion, Death and glorious Resurrection, the Paschal Triduum. Our Gospel reading recounts the resurrection of Lazarus which[…]
If we follow Christ closely we shall be allowed, even on this earth, to stand as it were on the threshold of the heavenly Jerusalem, and enjoy the contemplation of that everlasting feast, like the blessed apostles, who in following the Saviour as their leader, showed, and still show, the way to obtain the same[…]
This bizarre article caught my eye: A father and son in Quebec have sired between themselves 613 children by donating their sperm for use in IVF. Yes, you read that rightly. All those children are related in ways that doesn’t bear pondering. You’d have to go back to Genghis Khan’s industrial-scale harem to find that[…]
I recently had a conversation with Mrs. Bonnie Landry, on whose popular podcast ‘Make Joy Normal: Cozy Homeschooling‘ I’ve been a guest before. This time, the theme was the much forgotten, if not maligned, but very necessary and beautiful virtue of chastity, and its accompanying virtues of purity and modesty. We need to rediscover the[…]
I think of Pope Leo XIII (the last pope of that name, who reigned from 1878 to 1903, after whom the current pope took his own title) and Pope Saint John Paul II (from 1978 to 2005) as ‘bookends’ of a sort. They both wrote much, on similar themes, in different ways, to be sure,[…]
Growing up, I didn’t really have a father figure. Because of that, I didn’t have much respect for the vocation of a father or a husband. It felt distant, almost irrelevant—like something I couldn’t fully understand or trust. But during my conversion, that began to shift in an unexpected way. What first drew me to[…]
When you invoke Saint Joseph, you don’t have to speak much. You know your Father in heaven knows what you need; well, so does His friend Saint Joseph. (Saint André Bessette, +1937)
Pope Blessed Pius IX declared Saint Joseph patron of the universal Church in 1870. This was sixteen years after the same Pontiff defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, on the same day, in 1854, with the Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus. That was also the year the Pope began his long sojourn as the ‘prisoner[…]
APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI TO CAMEROON AND ANGOLA (MARCH 17-23, 2009) EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION ON THE OCCASION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI Amadou Ahidjo Stadium of Yaoundé Thursady, 19 March 2009 Dear Brother Bishops, Dear Brothers and Sisters, Praised be Jesus Christ who has gathered[…]
