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 this June 7th, 2024, the entire Church is celebrating the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, falling this year some 19 days following the Solemnity of Pentecost. Initially it was a diocesan celebration, in Rennes, France, celebrated with its approved liturgy on August 31, 1670, at the request of St John Eudes.[…]
Christendom is dead and God is calling His Church to rise up and rebuild His Church. I see myself as a “tradismatic” Catholic, to borrow a made-up word from Scott Hahn, which means I don’t like when people try to pigeonhole me into a particular subset of Catholicism. I encountered Jesus as a teenager and[…]
“Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” – John 15:13 In his play No Exit Jean Paul Sartre had one of his characters describe hell as “other people.” But Christ preached that holiness, which is the path to heaven, is living for other people; that[…]
The designs of His Heart are from age to age, to rescue their souls from death, and to keep them alive in famine (Ps. 32 – Entrance Antiphon). ⧾ Having celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi which commemorates the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, we rejoice today in the Feast of the Most Sacred[…]
Many years ago, I attended an academic talk that left a lasting impression – more so for my reaction to it than for its content. I don’t remember the specifics of the talk, but it advanced a rather sweeping critique and condemnation of modernity in all its aspects – give or take a few. The[…]
One of the great Popes in the Church’s history, Pope St John Paul II, was a eucharistic Pope. In his wonderful magisterial teaching as well as his holy example were all drawn and led to a great love and appreciation of Jesus as present in the Holy Eucharist. Today, as we celebrate Corpus Christi, it[…]
Beelzebub, mentioned in 2 Kings, was a prince of demons worshiped by the Philistines, whose most famous warrior was Goliath killed in battle with a slingshot to the head by the Jewish boy David. The Philistines probably occupied an area of modern Palestine. In 1714 the Dutch writer Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) published in English his[…]
(On this feast of the Visitation, it is fitting that we post this reflection from contributor Rebecca Jacobson on a pilgrimage she took to the primary Marian shrine in England, Our Lady of Walsingham. Wherever you live, make some sort of devotion – even if it cannot be a full pilgrimage! – to the blessed[…]
G.K. Chesterton is known as the most often quoted of any writer . . . and the least often read. It’s easy to see why that is so; merely consider these clever statements: A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.[1] It is terrible to contemplate[…]
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption to sonship. (Rom. 8:15). ⧾ Each year, on the Sunday following the Solemnity of Pentecost we celebrate the Mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity, the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It[…]
