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
Today’s Saint Hugh of Châteauneuf (1053 – 1152) is not to be confused with Saint Hugh of Lincoln (1140 – 1200), although their life spans overlapped briefly, both were bishops and both were connected with the Carthusians. Today’s Hugh – the French one – helped to found Saint Bruno’s Order of hermits, while the other[…]
Today is traditionally called Spy Wednesday, the day on which Judas Iscariot made the fateful decision, deep in his heart and at Satan’s prompting, to hand over Our Lord for thirty pieces of silver – the price of a slave. Thus, fulfilled the words of the prophet Zechariah: And they weighed out as my wages[…]
I was just reminded that tomorrow, (or today), April 1st, NASA plans to send its first mission back to the Moon for nearly fifty years. Over a half century since 1972, the last time, according to the account, NASA landed men on the moon. Artemis II plans to send four astronauts to do a loop[…]
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. (Saint Teresa of Calcutta, +1997)
We will post the introduction and link to Pope Leo’s sermon from Palm Sunday, petitioning in pliant terms for peace. May all those involved in the conflict in Iran, across the Middle East, and across the world take his words to heart. One question that stays with us before we do so, and which is[…]
The reflection on the worthy project by Magie Dominic was intriguing, and I thought I would offer a brief follow-up commentary. The garment woven out of many pieces is a poignant symbol, even a ‘sacramental’, inspired by prayer and grace. We are all united in some way, and should strive for such unity, wherever we[…]
Let us run to accompany him as he hastens towards his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all we can to prostrate ourselves before him by being humble and by trying to live as he would wish. Then we[…]
(This is the last of Pope Saint John Paul II’s Passion-Palm Sunday homilies, given in 2004, before his own passion and death the following year, when he was unable – for the first time – to celebrate Mass on this Holy Day. Yet he worked in the Lord’s vineyard right up until the end, having[…]
As we enter in Holy Week, it is fitting to suggest some solemn music to fit the season, here the two settings of the ‘Passion’ put to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. According to sources, Bach wrote five ‘Passions’, orchestral chorales based on the final days in the life of Christ, but only two have[…]
We’re now into the second month of the Iran vs. America/Israel War – or whatever name one wants to give it, whether ‘war’ or ‘conflict’, or who’s involved, or who might become involved, as the Houthis have now started lobbing missiles into Israel. And into this second moon cycle, as we approach the greatest solemnity[…]
