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 March 21 and 22, we commemorate two saints by the name of Nicholas. The first is Nicholas of Flüe (1415 – 1487), patron saint of Switzerland. His life was unique, and perhaps not to be imitated: As a husband and father of ten children, he decided to retreat from his busy life as a[…]
This bizarre article caught my eye: A father and son in Quebec have sired between themselves 613 children by donating their sperm for use in IVF. Yes, you read that rightly. All those children are related in ways that doesn’t bear pondering. You’d have to go back to Genghis Khan’s industrial-scale harem to find that[…]
I recently had a conversation with Mrs. Bonnie Landry, on whose popular podcast ‘Make Joy Normal: Cozy Homeschooling‘ I’ve been a guest before. This time, the theme was the much forgotten, if not maligned, but very necessary and beautiful virtue of chastity, and its accompanying virtues of purity and modesty. We need to rediscover the[…]
The saints during Lent – with few exceptions, such as Saint Joseph – are celebrated as muted ‘commemorations’, but that does not decrease their significance as saints, and we should still remember them for what their always remarkable and unique lives have to teach us. So it is with Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (315 –[…]
A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, and we extend that to all who are of Irish lineage, or those who would like to be, or those who just enjoy participating in the rich culture of the Emerald Isle in a more spiritual and vicarious way, which pretty much includes everyone. After[…]
Laetare Sunday marks the halfway point of Lent. It is so named after the Introit, from Isaiah 66:10–11 and Psalms 121:1. Lætare Jerusalem et conventum facite omnes qui diligitis eam; gaudete cum lætitia, qui in tristitia fuistis, ut exsultetis et satiemini ab uberibus consolationis vestrae. Psalm: Lætatus sum in his quæ dicta sunt mihi: in domum[…]
War is always a bad business, even in the most just of them, the criteria for which the current conflagration does not seem fit. Whatever one’s view, as one of the worst of evils to afflict Man – along with plagues and, say, giant asteroids – we should strive to keep wars as brief as[…]
We would remiss on this March 10th if we didn’t mention the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, a group of elite Roman legionaries – called the Fulminata (‘the ligthning’ regiment) – who en masse professed Christianity, and were condemned to death. This was under the persecution of Emperor Licinius in the east. He would meet his[…]
John Ogilvie was born in 1579, just as the Protestant ‘reformation’ was taking hold in Britain, including his native land of Scotland, led by the fiery apostate priest John Knox. Catholicism would soon be all-but wiped out in dear Alba, signified by the death of our saint. Although raised in his first formative years by[…]
We should not be surprised that the saints speak to us through the ages. How they responded in their own era with its own troubles and crises offers us an example for how to act in our own. As well, they intercede for us, that we, like them, may fulfill God’s holy and perfect will.[…]
