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
The Transfiguration is celebrated twice in the Church’s liturgy: on the second Sunday of Lent but also on 6 August. The latter date is significant in that it’s the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, an event that hastened the end of the Second World War. The difference between[…]
Perusing the website of Snowflakes, an American adoption agency, the viewer is presented with myriad photos of respectable, young-to-middle-aged couples radiantly embracing beautiful, healthy, beaming infants and young children. Beneath a prominent quote from Sacred Scripture,[1] the agency displays glowing reviews from its adoptive families, emphasizing the care taken to place children in families deemed[…]
David Bentley Hart has recently suggested that the Eastern Orthodox practice of divorce is more coherent and compassionate than the Catholic practice of annulment. The key premise of his argument is that divorce, though always sad, is sometimes the best option for couples; sometimes even for couples whose marriages the Catholic Church considers indissoluble. As[…]
In this account of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions regarding the Last Supper, trial, scourging, carrying of the Cross, crucifixion, death and resurrection of Our Lord, we are given a compelling, often horrific description of the events of the Triduum. Included in her revelations are conversations, thoughts, emotions, motives and the demeanour of all the[…]
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11). On Ash Wednesday we began the observance of the holy season of Lent with the imposition of blessed ashes, an external sign of our interior resolve to undertake Lenten penance. By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to[…]
To have the soul of a poet Lord, To have one that feels to the depths. The gaping wide hole in my soul Lord The sadness and longing must be for Thee. It is the wind that all things are fleeting. The color that only created eye can see It burns me to the[…]
And there was a great battle in heaven; Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought, and his angels. And they prevailed not: neither was their place found anymore in heaven. And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent who is called the devil, and Satan, who seduceth the[…]
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Vatican Basilica Ash Wednesday, 13 February 2013 Venerable Brethren, Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, Ash Wednesday, we begin a new Lenten journey, a journey that lasts forty days and leads us towards the joy of Easter, the victory of life over death. Following the ancient Roman tradition of the[…]
Can there be a shorter account of Our Lord’s forty days in the desert than the one from Saint Mark? It omits not only the familiar three temptations but also the fact that Jesus fasted for the entire period of nearly six weeks. In doing so, he matched the great prophets from the Old Testament—Moses[…]
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Mt. 5:38). ⧾ At face value, these words appear to demand the impossible of us; but in the context in which Our Lord spoke them, and in light of the tradition of the Old Covenant which Our Lord came to fulfill, they are an invitation to[…]
