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
On this Good Friday, a fitting help to our devotion is Allegri’s Miserere, his unsurpassed musical setting of Psalm 51, recited in Lauds (Morning Prayer) every Friday. Composed around 1638, under the patronage of Pope Urban VIII- the same one who battled Galileo – the sublime piece was performed only on certain occasions in the[…]
Today’s Saint Hugh of Châteauneuf (1053 – 1152) is not to be confused with Saint Hugh of Lincoln (1140 – 1200), although their life spans overlapped briefly, both were bishops and both were connected with the Carthusians. Today’s Hugh – the French one – helped to found Saint Bruno’s Order of hermits, while the other[…]
I was just reminded that tomorrow, (or today), April 1st, NASA plans to send its first mission back to the Moon for nearly fifty years. Over a half century since 1972, the last time, according to the account, NASA landed men on the moon. Artemis II plans to send four astronauts to do a loop[…]
We will post the introduction and link to Pope Leo’s sermon from Palm Sunday, petitioning in pliant terms for peace. May all those involved in the conflict in Iran, across the Middle East, and across the world take his words to heart. One question that stays with us before we do so, and which is[…]
We’re now into the second month of the Iran vs. America/Israel War – or whatever name one wants to give it, whether ‘war’ or ‘conflict’, or who’s involved, or who might become involved, as the Houthis have now started lobbing missiles into Israel. And into this second moon cycle, as we approach the greatest solemnity[…]
Service in politics used to be an actual thing. That is, those in ‘public office’ saw themselves truly as public servants, working diligently on behalf of the people they represent. Remunerated at the expense of others by enforced taxation, they realized they should offer this service in a spirit of charity, good-will and sacrifice. A[…]
It’s a common trope that reading has diminished of late, especially since the advent of ubiquitous screen technology, but the demise likely predated the i-pad and e-reader. Television is a culprit, but so are comic books and glossy magazines. Then there’s the effect of the mass-education system and all of its ideological propaganda. At least[…]
A very blessed Solemnity of the Annunciation to one and all! This March 25th marking the greatest event in history – the Incarnation of the Son of God – goes back to the very origins of the Church, and changed everything. What was lost, is now found, what was dead, is now very much alive.[…]
Paul Ehrlich died last March 13th, at the age of 93. He was the author of The Population Bomb, published in the fateful year of 1968, when the sexual revolution was in full swing, and ‘the Pill’ all the thing. It was also the year Pope Saint Paul VI promulgated his revolutionary encyclical Humanae Vitae,[…]
Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo (+1606), a missionary bishop of Lima, Peru from 1579 until his death in 1606, who never seemed to stop, a heroic model for bishops for all ages, as well as an example for all of us. But as Turibius would see things, he was simply doing his duty as a successor[…]
