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
As students return to school after Christmas holidays, and in light of yesterday’s memorial of founding Catholic educator Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys, I offer these reflections on the (Catholic) public school system here in Ontario. Readers may also peruse Miles Smit’s own thoughts in these pages a while back, to which this is something of a[…]
(New contributor Mary Innerst offers here a reflection of the beauty of her time studying at the ITI – the International Theological Institute – in Trumau, Austria, where I spent a delightful few days last summer. Our own liberal arts college, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, here in the scenic Madawaska Valley, shares a transfer[…]
(As we enter back into ‘ordinary time’, we follow the public life of our Saviour, His three years of ministry before His Passion, Death and Resurrection, for which prepare during Lent, and celebrate at Easter. Alleluia. So here is a meditation from new contributor Father Richard Gribble, C.S.C., on Christ freeing us from many bondages[…]
‘This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased’ (Mt. 3:17). ⧾ Today’s Feast of the Lord’s Baptism brings to a completion our celebration of the Feast of Christmas and the Epiphany which we celebrated last Sunday. The Epiphany specifically celebrates the manifestation of Christ Our Lord to the nations and today’s[…]
The quiet authority of the 1946 Christmas move It’s a Wonderful Life upon the cultural imagination cannot be overstated, and few films manage such influence while refusing every modern instinct toward superficial consolation. Consequently, its endurance across generations reveals something stubbornly human about the way meaning is discovered rather than manufactured, uncovered rather than engineered, received[…]
Sadly, the majority of Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Nearly seven in ten Catholics (69%) say they personally believe that during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the bread and wine used in Communion are merely symbols of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ (Pew Research Center[…]
In 1849, Fyodor Dostoevsky stood before a firing squad, fully prepared for death, only to hear his execution sentence revoked at the final instant. This episode serves as more than dramatic biography, since it operates as a key for understanding why Dostoevsky’s writing carries such moral weight, psychological depth, and spiritual seriousness. Few authors ever[…]
On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh (Mt. 2:11). The celebration of the Solemnity of the Epiphany completes our commemoration of the Mystery of the Incarnation which Christmas[…]
When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman…so that we might receive adoption as sons (Gal.4:4).⧾ On this the last day of the Christmas Octave and the first of the New Year, we celebrated the divine maternity of our Mother and Queen, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Today’s Solemnity[…]
There is an eschatological note to this final day of the calendar year, as there was a month ago in the end of the liturgical year with Christ the King, and the beginning of Advent. In the first reading this morning, the Apostle John warns of Antichrist, and that already many antichrists have come, whose[…]
