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
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good (1 Cor. 12:7). Today, with joy and thanksgiving we celebrate the Solemnity of Pentecost. The seven weeks of Easter have come to an end and Christ Our Lord’s Passover is fulfilled in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, manifested, given and communicated[…]
As the universal Church begins the anticipatory and penitent season of Lent, it is important to take a moment to understand the season’s meaning and how it applies to each of the Catholic faithful. Lent is a time of prayer, fasting, and alms-giving in preparation for the passion and resurrection of Christ. So, when we[…]
It isn’t the most difficult mountain to climb, but in many ways the most impressive. The top of the world, the highest spot one can stand on the earth’s surface, so high that the blue sky is tinged to violet, one is so much closer to outer space. Breathtaking footage, for those of us who[…]
For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he[…]
On his visit to our college a number of years ago, the late Jesuit priest and scholar Father Koterski mentioned a book that he described as the ‘most influential he has ever read’, namely, his fellow Jesuit’s Father Paul Quay’s “The Mystery Hidden for Ages in God” – whose subtitle is ‘why aren’t Catholics holier[…]
I have an article Catholic World Report, on the ‘Astronomer, Physicist and Worlds Colliding‘. Have a read, if you will – it will soon be posted in these pages.
On March 19 we celebrate the solemnity of St Joseph, the Spouse of the Virgin Mary and the Custodian of the Redeemer. St Joseph is a saint whose life testimony talks to my heart in a special way. He is a saint to whom I am learning to have frequent recourse to in all my[…]
I AM the Way to heaven’s road but you cannot come with such a load of things so heavy you think you knead where only living bread will feed. I AM the treasure, I AM the King, I AM the wind beneath your wing like petals falling in the midst of May, for My smallest[…]
We’re living in an era of obfuscation or, to frame the matter more bluntly, a veritable blizzard of lies, ones that are difficult to discern, for they are either subtle and insidious, with the truth hidden in back rooms and off-camera, or so bold and brazen, told with such apparent confidence, that even those who[…]
Juditha Triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi, the only one of four he is known to have written which survived. Its date of composition is not precisely known, but is a metaphorical meditation on the story of Judith’s Old Testament triumph over the pagans, in light of the Christian defense of Corfu against the[…]
