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
(Here is Pope Benedict’s homily for April 5th, 2012, for the Mass of the Last Supper…one year before he made his own ‘exodus’ from the papacy, and, now, into eternity. We continue to pray for his soul, for the priesthood, for the Church, not least in this Solemn Triduum.) MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER HOMILY[…]
Lent is a fitting time for Christians to re-evaluate some of the essentials that are often taken for granted in the faith. Catholics are called to re-engage with our spiritual lives by focusing our prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Parishes offer extended times for confession alongside a dedicated service. Catechumens and other OCIA candidates begin their[…]
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, “The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failures, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs.” Hope is the least talked about and most constant of all virtues. There is not a day passes[…]
While the sun’s light failed…the curtain of the temple was torn in two (Lk.23:45). Palm Sunday begins our observance of Holy Week, the Week of Salvation. The reading of Our Lord’s Passion places us at the foot of the cross with Our Lady and Our Lord’s most faithful disciples. In them we recognise the first[…]
Last year on Palm Sunday we heard the passion from Saint Mark’s Gospel, and next year it will be from Saint Matthew. Each is different in detail from the other, and that holds for this year too, as we listen to Saint Luke’s account. Typically, Luke emphasizes the compassion of Jesus as when he prayed[…]
Today, the Friday before Good Friday, in Malta and Gozo is celebrated the devotion of Our Lady of Sorrows. Today, all Malta and Gozo stand in silence before the image of the Pieta, Mary with her Son Jesus dead in her hands. Many are those who today feel the call to go to Mass, confession[…]
In the fifth of a series of voters’ guides for conscience-informed Catholics, Matthew Marquardt notes that abortion and medical non-culpable homicide are leading causes of death for Canadians – yet politicians refuse to discuss them. Why are Catholics so obsessed about abortion? And euthanasia? There are many other evils we could concern ourselves with.[…]
(Pius XII warned in 1946 that the worst sin of the twentieth century was the loss of the sense of sin. In Sunday’s Gospel, Christ challenges and rebukes the hypocritical Pharisees so unaware of their own sins, and offered mercy to the woman caught in adultery. Yet He told her – as He told so[…]
‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus’ (Jn. 12:20). The veiled statues and images in our churches indicate that we have entered into Passiontide. Next Sunday, Palm Sunday, in the reading of the Lord’s Passion we will hear that at Our Lord’s death, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom[…]
I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord (Phil. 3:8). ⧾ Our Gospel reading today is taken from the Gospel of St. John. For John, life begins when one meets Jesus; and for this reason, one of the major interests of this evangelist is to lead the[…]
