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
As we move towards Holy Week in this last week of Lent – in the midst of this global crisis, the unfolding effects of which are almost unknowable – it may help upon the mystery of suffering, whether of the physical sort, those afflicted by this virus or any other illness, or the many psychological and[…]
The fifth Sunday in Lent marks the beginning of Passiontide. It is customary in churches to veil all statues and images until the celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection. In the Traditional Roman Rite, this is also marked by the omission of the doxology in both the Mass and the Divine Office. The suspension of the[…]
How old was Lazarus? Robert Browning, in a poem written in 1855—An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician—suggests that he would have been about ten years old. We learn from the poem that Karshish is touring the Near East in A.D. 70 as a student of medicine, sending back in[…]
Tomorrow, March 29th, in the year of Our Lord 2020, five centuries after the beginning of what is known as the ‘Protestant Reformation’, England is being re-consecrated to Our Lady, through the intercession of her title as the ‘Lady of Walsingham’ the primary Marian shrine in Britain. We should join in prayer with the English[…]
Pope Francis is inviting Catholics – indeed, all people of good will – to witness and receive his Urbi et Orbi – to the City and to the World – blessing today, at 6 p.m. Rome time (which, for readers in the Eastern Time Zone, is 1 p.m.). A miraculous crucifix has been moved into[…]
To help us during struggles and challenges in life, Our Lord has given us the great Theresas: St. Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower, Doctor of the Church; St. Teresa of Avila, the great Carmelite reformer, Doctor of the Church; St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, philosopher and martyr; St. Teresa of Calcutta who embodied[…]
Although we have been dispensed from attendance at Holy Mass because of the pandemic, it would be good to read the lessons of the Mass together with other family members. Since the lessons of the Mass point to the healing waters of Baptism, an appropriate family activity with children or grandchildren today might include looking[…]
The Catholic doctrine of the imago Dei – that man is made in the very ‘image of God’ – looks perhaps simple at first glance, yet in reality its nuances are critical to the discussion of the human person. The imago Dei situates man as an “in-between” creature, a rational animal, higher than the beasts[…]
The strong and silent saint from the Gospel, is a fitting one for our troubled times: The husband of the Virgin Mary, and foster father (protector) of the Christ, was proclaimed the patron of this country at its very origins, by none other than Samuel de Champlain, on March 19, 1624, a choice later ratified[…]
Lord, we are the least of all the nations, now we are despised throughout the world, today, because of our sins. We have at this time no leader, no prophet, no prince, no holocaust, no sacrifice, no oblation, no incense….But may the contrite soul, the humbled spirit be as acceptable to you…such let our sacrifice[…]
