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
Listen Everything is loud, until you listen. If you couldn’t speak, what would you do? What would you notice? The miracles of Christ or Christ? Hume said, “The Son of David’s miracles are not probable.” Was Hume deaf or dumb? Because I heard yesterday, “You can’t apply probability to intentional events.” Hume must be[…]
Words Aren’t Weightless “Sticks and stones may break my bones But words will never hurt me” Tell that to the lasting tone of a stone Their syntax sticks My inner structures are brittle Hollow bones like a bird Words aren’t weightless They fly away from prepositions and predicates Subjected phrases, objectifying subjects Making nests[…]
Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight (Lk. 3:4). ⧾ The Gospel of the Mass on this second Sunday of Advent introduces us to John the Baptist, the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight’. John the Baptist is one of[…]
The current lectionary at Mass in Canada has been in use for nearly thirty years now; it was introduced in 1992. At that time the bishops choose the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)[1] over the Bible of Jerusalem. The difference between them was nicely described by the office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops[…]
“For us, after God, the greatest love is Poland” – Bl. Stefan Wyszyński In the sixteenth century St. John of the Cross said: “The Lord has always revealed the treasures of his wisdom and his spirit to mortals, but now that evil is showing its face more, God reveals them to us still more fully.”[…]
The Weakest Possible Argument?[1] The weakest argument is that based on authority. This fact may explain why Father Most’s article on the history of the ordination of women[2] is unlikely to change anyone’s mind, for his arguments consists of demonstrating that women have never been ordained in the Catholic Church. On the premise that Tradition[…]
There is a remnant of the former ways in the Church, in this church where there is no sign of Christmas, where the vestments are a sober purple and the music and prayers still honour the traditional character of Advent. This special liturgical tone is especially evident in the readings from the Bible, with their[…]
On this feast of Saint Caecelia, patroness of music, especially of the ecclesial sort, it is fitting we present one of the greatest of Church musicians, Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, a master of counterpoint polyphony, of the ars perfecta, the most perfect art of music. Palestrina was contemporaneous with his spiritual director, Saint Philip Neri,[…]
‘For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice’ (Jn. 18:37). Today we mark the end of the liturgical year by celebrating the great Feast of Christ the Universal King; and though we contemplate Christ our[…]
For reasons which will be apparent, my alias is Martin Beck. I am about to present several excerpts from the diary of my academic colleague and friend, alias Cosmos Korb. I discovered all the volumes of his diary, several boxes full in his apartment, which I had been asked to help clean out upon his[…]
