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
This 13th day of October marks the anniversary final apparition of Our Lady at Fatima in the fateful year of 1917, to the three seers Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia. The Virgin appeared as the Sorrowful Mother and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, along with Saint Joseph and the Christ child, Who blessed the earth. Fatima[…]
Today marks the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, now more than six decades back to those heady days of the early sixties, the future, to many eyes, full of promise and hope, throwing off the shackles of their own ancien regime, the bourgeois suburbia of the post-war era giving way to[…]
Besides the great John Henry Newman, we also commemorate two other saints on this day: Saint Denis, patron of Paris, was the first bishop of what would later be called the ‘city of lights’, and he himself was one of her greatest lights. Denis – in Latin, Dionysius – was likely martyred in the mid-third[…]
Although John Henry Cardinal Newman died on August 11th, in 1890, the Church commemorates him on this October 9th. For it was on this day in 1845 that the former Anglican minister, halfway through his earthly journey, finally convinced of the truth, converted to the fullness of the Faith and was received into the Church[…]
On this October 8th, we commemorate Our Lady of Good Remedy, fittingly the day after Our Lady of the Rosary (also called Our Lady of Victory). Our Lady of Good Remedy is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mother of God which goes back eight centuries, to Saint John Matha and the Trinitarians, whose primary[…]
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher (+1849) is commemorated today along with Saint Bruno, a Canadian sister, who, under the inspiration of Saint Eugene de Mazenod and Bishop Bourget, founded the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary, to educate young girls. She was born on this day, October 6th, in 1811, and christened Eulalie, the[…]
Today we celebrate one of the newest of saints in the liturgical calendar, placed therein only a few years ago, with October 5th, the day she entered eternity, chosen as the memorial Saint Faustina Kowalska (1905 – 1938). She is the sister who received numerous visions of Our Lord manifested as ‘the Divine Mercy’, with[…]
There are as many ways to follow Christ as there are humans beings, even if many seem not to avail themselves of the grace Our Saviour offers. Some amongst the paths to sanctity are more radical than others, and by ‘radical’ we mean ‘back to the very root’, as in, how did Christ Himself actually[…]
Popes used to avoid off-the-cuff interviews or answers to questions, knowing that the authority of their office carried far more weight, and was easily confounded with the fallible opinions of the man behind that office. Measured, thought-out, pondered and prayed over, advised and edited – only after such were papal pronouncements made. Now we have[…]
This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would pin his theses to the church door at Wittenburg on All Hallow’s Eve, when the whole of Europe was still at least nominally Catholic. Although Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and company rejected[…]
