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
Today’s commemoration of saints are all connected with the persecution The first group suffered under the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius in the mid-2nd century, particularly as it raged in the then-Roman city of Lyons in 177, when the bishop, Saint Irenaeus, met his end, his feast being on June 28th. Many martyrs suffered in that[…]
A blessed, joyous and grace-filled Easter to one and all! Christus resurrexit! Dominus surrexit vere! Alleluia! One of my favorite pieces of this season of joy is Gregor Aichinger’s Regina Coeli, first published in 1603, timeless ever since, and which we have sung many times in our College schola, and we sang it again last[…]
Over at OnePeterFive, editor T.S. Flanders urges us all to charity and not to ‘excommunicate’ each other (perhaps we might say ‘shun’). It’s a worthy endeavour, but therein he makes the following claim: in year of the reign of Jesus Christ 2025, all SSPX priests are in communion with the local bishop and Pope Francis.[…]
Margaret of Castello (+1287 – 1320) is the patroness of the unborn, the disabled, the blind, for she herself was ‘disabled’, even if she may never have thought of herself that way – she had curvature of the spine, was blind, had a limp from legs of different length, and never grew more than four[…]
Efficiency is not in itself a virtue. It may sometimes help towards virtue, but in much of life, it is not efficiency that is called for, but munificence, profusion and prodigality. In its strict etymology, ‘efficiency’ simply means being able to do something, and do it well –from the Latin, ex-facere. As language has evolved[…]
There are two saints commemorated on this April 12th. The first is Saint Sabbas the Goth (+372), a sort of ‘village fool’, but the wisest of fools, a fool for Christ. He lived in what is now Romania during the transition of the Goths – a barbaric, pagan Germanic tribe – to Christianity (they would[…]
Well, they’ve finally done it. Readers of a certain vintage may recall seeing Jurassic Park in full theatre mode, and being blown away by nature run amok. Or, more to the point, Man’s intervention in nature by bringing back long-extinct species – in the film, dinosaurs – by extracting their DNA (from mosquitoes trapped in[…]
(Bioethicist Dr. Elizabeth Rex has responded to my initial response, and the reader may find such on LifeSite. You can read the debate here. Alas, Dr. Rex’s arguments do not work, and here is my reply and clarification, which may be posted on LifeSite soon. This will likely close my contribution, for I’m not sure[…]
On this last day of March, as this year we approach the final two weeks of Lent before Holy Week, we commemorate two little known saints: The first chronologically is Saint Benjamin (+424), a deacon who was tortured to death for his Faith by order of the pagan Persian king, Varanes V, who continued the[…]
It’s as rigorous as the ascetic lives of the desert monks, of the Eastern Fathers, and the glory days of the Trappists and Camaldolese. Only it’s not done freely, for the love of God, like these noble souls, but imposed upon all, to appease the false gods of climate. We’re all to become vegan spiritualists,[…]
