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
A Blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter to all our readers, which also happens to be the secular commemoration of Mothers’ Day, which became widespread when President Woodrow Wilson – for whom I have not much admiration otherwise, and his imprudent and unjust ‘Fourteen Points’ at Versailles in 1919 paved the way for an even worse[…]
If there such a thing as a ‘science’ to beauty, we derive it from the Greeks, who posited three criteria to this most elusive, yet most evident, concept: Integrity – does a thing have all its parts? – proportion – are these various parts in harmony with one another? – and clarity (or ‘honestas’) –[…]
I read recently a comparison between early Christians forced underground to Mass in the catacombs, and modern Catholics relegated to Mass on the Ethernet (Internet?). It made me wonder: There may be some similarity, but the analogy is quite a limited one, and in fact, like most analogies, they are more different than alike. For some,[…]
Filtering what comes through ‘mainstream’ media is good for one’s mental and spiritual clarity these days. I try to avoid television, but caught a bit of the headlines last week sort of by accident (on CNN, I think it was). Joe Biden plans to cut ‘carbon emissions’ – that ill-defined hydra – by 30-50% by[…]
This day marks the anniversary of the death of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, (+1783), one of the oddest, but also the most attractive, of saints. His vocation, such as it was, was a unique one, even if all ‘calls’ from God are in a sense fit for each of us. Benedict, an intense and pious[…]
A blessed Divine Mercy Sunday to one and all, a feast put in place by Pope Saint John Paul II, back in the Jubilee Year of 2000. Five years later, he would go to eternity on the eve of the feast, April 2nd, 2005. In these few moments of reflection from the theme of mercy,[…]
This is the second anniversary of our first photograph of a ”black hole, those much-ballyhooed objects that were once the stuff purely of imagination and theory, first posited in a rudimentary way by the lay astronomer John Michell back in 1784: A body with such a Newtonian gravitational ‘pull’ that corpuscles of light would fall[…]
A continued blessed and joyous Easter to all our readers, on this second day of eight days of solemnities, each day an ‘Easter Sunday’ – then another month of the Easter season, until Pentecost, and the great feasts that follow: Pentecost, Ascension, Corpus Christi, and the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I was going[…]
Judas is an intriguing figure, perhaps not for the right reasons, but nonetheless, he’s given to us in the Gospels for a reason – mysterious words, that end in what is in many ways the worst betrayal in human history, handing over the very Son of God, the Word made Flesh, and our Redeemer, including[…]
‘Tenebrae’ – or ‘darkness’, in Latin – is a service of solemn songs and readings in the three days (the ‘Triduum’) commemorating our Lord’s own descent into His Passion, with the gradual extinction of candles, preceding the great light and joy of Easter, with the victory of the Resurrection. Music for Tenebrae has been composed[…]
