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
In the apostolic island-state of Malta, Christmas is very much lived and breathed, and much of this is due to the immense love and commitment invested by St Ġorġ Preca, Malta’s first canonized saint. St Ġorġ Preca’s biography tells us that it was in the beginning of December 1921, precisely a centenary ago, when Fr[…]
What does Saint John of the Cross, whose memorial we celebrate in these ides of the dark days of December, saint stand for? Before replying to this question it is important to give a context regarding his life and the times he lived in. John was born in the vicinity of Avila, in Spain, in[…]
This year, the third Sunday of Advent was also the great feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. This story is a very powerful reminder of what we pray in the Magnificat Canticle of Mary: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden (Luke 1:46-48). Our[…]
If a blessing is God’s favour and protection, can there be an eminent example of such than the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary? In his tertium librum Sententiarum, 3.q.I, Blessed Duns Scotus, a humble and most erudite Franciscan theologian writes: Mary did not contract original sin because of the excellence of her Son. Inasmuch[…]
Que soy era immaculada Concepciou – I am the Immaculate Conception These are the words with which Our Lady replied to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, in the local French patois, when asked by the young visionary who she was. This was in 1858, four years after Pope Blessed Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate[…]
The story of St Nicholas goes back to the third century, to the 15th March 270, when he was born in the Patara village in Asia Minor. In those days his village was within Greek influence. He hailed from wealthy parents, who were adamant to raise him in the Christian faith. Unfortunately he lost his[…]
John of Damascus was born around the year 675 or 676, into a cultural milieu which was rather intriguing. Although given much prominence in Byzantine Theology, he grew up in the Islamic culture, and although he came from a Christian family, he was appointed the Treasurer of the Caliphate. Court life did not really leave[…]
“And her husband Joseph, being a just man…”[1] How many times have we as Catholics heard these words of Scripture and experienced the meaning of them go right over our heads? I know that this has been the case with me. Over and over again in my young life I have heard these words in[…]
Francis Xavier was born on 7 April 1506, in the city of Javier, which in Basque language means “new house”, in the Kingdom of Navarre (present day Spain). He was a companion of St Ignatius of Loyola, one of the first seven Jesuits who took vows of poverty and chastity at Montmartre, Paris in 1534.[…]
The 29th of November is the liturgical memorial of Franciscan saints. Countless is the number of those who followed Jesus in the footsteps of St Francis of Assisi by living the gospel in poverty and fraternity. This feast is one of great joy and hope, as a panoply of worldly unknowns convey to us the[…]
