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 22nd of August in the liturgical calendar features the liturgical of the Queenship of Mary. In this day and age, where monarchical titles seem out of fashion and something of the distant past, what sense can we have when we refer to the Queenship of Mary? The encyclical of Pope Pius XII on proclaiming[…]
Appeals for freedom, justice and mercy are commonplace. All seems right. We impulsively acknowledge and defend them undisputedly. But, in the spirit of modern revisionism these core principles have been stealthily expropriated and deceptively portrayed How is this happening? We answer the call-out for democracy, social cohesion and even planetary salvation as if to a[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Papal Summer Residence, Castel Gandolfo Wednesday, 18 August 2010 Saint Pius the Tenth Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I would like to reflect on my Predecessor, St Pius X whose liturgical Memorial we shall be celebrating next Saturday and to underline certain features that may be useful to both Pastors and[…]
For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples (Is. 56: 7). In any given region or country, a common language is a source of unity. You may be familiar with the term lingua franca or bridge language, a language used to make communication possible between people who do not share[…]
Abstract Are you an “investigator” or maybe a “peacemaker’ or someone who would be known as a “helper” or “achiever?” Maybe you are the enthusiastic lover of excitements or an individualist. Many of us want to know who we are and, ideally, have a simple method to get to the answer of who we are[…]
Thanks to my Irish Catholic mother and 12 years with the good sisters of six parochial schools and four more years at the University of Notre Dame, I am not among the 10% in this country who are atheists. Many non-believers who have made a serious effort to consider whether God exists would write me[…]
“…faith and prayer are forces that can influence history and that in the end prayer is more powerful than bullets and faith more powerful than armies.” (St. John Paul II) August 15th, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, marks the 123rd anniversary of the Miracle on the Vistula River, the event[…]
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according to the flesh (Rom 9: 3). The epistle reading of the Mass today is taken from the ninth chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. It is an affirmation of[…]
So we have the prophetic message more fully confirmed. You do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place (2 Pet. 1:18). Today we celebrate the glorious Feast of Our Lord’s Transfiguration. We are familiar with this event in the life of Our Lord because every year, on[…]
When we hear that someone was “born with a silver spoon in his mouth” we think of a man being born into much wealth with many worldly opportunities. Today’s first reading (1 Kings 3.5-12) discusses King Solomon and in many ways this silver spoon expression applies to him. Solomon was born about 1000 years before[…]
