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
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11). On Ash Wednesday we begin 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[…]
The Professor loved to laugh. Social propriety piqued him. Practiced in the Grand Art of Comedy, he was an untiring scoffer; an assailant on the dismal. He knew the Acacacademy feared scandal and that they took him for a fool. Didn’t care. He made a little joke just the same. The Fool (for[…]
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. (Gen 3:19) You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. (Song 4:7) Isn’t it ironic that, despite all[…]
Part III (b) – O Equity! [Diversity and Inclusivity have been introduced earlier. The third person of the unholy triad Equity is the most complex and egregious among them. This essay considers Equity as a concept in its origin and thereafter, as it drew in several ideas that have permeated, conjugated with, enshrouded, enlightened, negated[…]
In honour of the new archbishop-elect to Canada’s largest diocese, for our musical selection this week, we offer two version of the great motet Ecce Sacerdos Magnus – Behold the Great High Priest. The first by Anton Bruckner, composed in 1885 for the centenary of the founding of the diocese of Linz – even if[…]
If you choose, you can keep the commandments, and they will save you… [God] has not commanded anyone to be wicked, and He has not given anyone permission to sin (Sir. 15:15, 20). The Gospel of St. Matthew presents Our Lord as the new Moses or lawgiver who explains the precepts of the Old Law[…]
‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden’ (Mt. 5:14). Imagine the astonishment of those who heard these words for the very first time. Our Lord extended their importance to universal proportions; and yet He says the same of us and to us in this our hearing.[…]
In 2016, two weeks after it was legalized in Canada, a patient asked for my help in referring her for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). As a registered nurse visiting the sick and the dying in their homes, my responsibility was to report her request to her family doctor as well as to her community’s[…]
For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord – the remnant of Israel (Zeph. 3:12). Our Gospel text this Sunday is very familiar to us. The Beatitudes are sometimes referred to as the Charter of God’s Kingdom, a magna[…]
Our Church’s tradition has promoted the practice of lectio divina, i.e., a meditative reading of Scripture. We would do well to follow in these footsteps by examining the Beatitudes, today’s Gospel, which open the Sermon on the Mount, the discourse in which Jesus presents the new covenant replacing that which Moses brought down to the[…]
