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 memorial of Lady of Loreto was put back into the universal calendar, on this day by Pope Francis in December, 2019, in those halcyonic months just before the tsunami of Covid-insanity hit the world. Today we celebrate the home where the Holy Family lived. But why Loreto, on the shores of the Adriatic in[…]
APOSTOLIC VISIT TO TORONTO, TO CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA AND TO CIUDAD DE MÉXICO CANONIZATION OF JUAN DIEGO CUAUHTLATOATZIN HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II Mexico City, Wednesday July 31, 2002 1. “I thank you, Father … that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father,[…]
Amare nesciri – ‘love to be unknown’ – exhorted Saint Philip Neri (+1595), founder of the Oratorians, who himself was an unknown young tutor in Florence, living in a loft, in the early 16th century. At the same time, thousands of miles across the ocean in the mountainous region outside of what is now Mexico[…]
Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou – I am the Immaculate Conception These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, which she spoke in the local French patois, when the young saint asked the ‘beautiful lady’ who she was. Bernadette had no idea what they meant, and had to memorize them as she[…]
HOLY MASS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DOGMA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Wednesday, 8 December 2004 “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” (Lk 1: 28). We address[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Saint Ambrose of Milan Dear Brothers and Sisters, Holy Bishop Ambrose – about whom I shall speak to you today – died in Milan in the night between 3 and 4 April 397. It was dawn on Holy Saturday. The day before, at[…]
Saint Nicholas of Myra (+343) has gone down in legend in more ways than one. His general story follows below, but through the years has developed into the genial ‘Santa Claus’, the rotund, cherubic figure, a creation of the cartoonist Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly in 1881, with the red suit and ample physiognomy, which[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 6 May 2009 John Damascene Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I should like to speak about John Damascene, a personage of prime importance in the history of Byzantine Theology, a great Doctor in the history of the Universal Church. Above all he was an eyewitness of the[…]
Saint Francis Xavier – the relic of whose forearm, instrumental in the baptizing of tens of thousands made a tour around Canada a number of years ago – was one of those remarkable men of history, whose intensity, focus and singleness of purpose echo through the ages. His desire to give everything to save souls,[…]
Today, on this first day of December, we call to mind Saint Edmund Campion – see Avellina Ballestri’s fine recounting of his glorious life from the archives – one of the most charming in the pageantry of the English martyrs. His sense of optimism and good cheer, in the face of the most arduous conditions, even[…]
