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
Da per matrem me venire Grant that I may come to Thee through Mary. (Motto of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen) The good people of Peoria Illinois are deeply disappointed. The beatification of one of their favourite sons — set for December 21 in this city’s Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception on December[…]
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (Lk. 21: 36). The first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of a new liturgical year. In the cycle of the sacred liturgy, this is Year A, during which the Sunday Gospel readings will be taken from the Gospel[…]
‘Truly, I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise’ (Lk. 23:43). ⧾ From the moment that Our Lord spoke these words, the Church has lived in this time frame. Although the chronology of time progresses and unfolds, the eternal today of God’s time reaches across and underlies all history. This today of[…]
THE GOSPELS this year have come from the Gospel of Luke, and we finish on the feast of Christ the King with a section of Saint Luke’s account of the crucifixion. The few verses you have just heard is typical of Luke in that it emphasizes the compassion of Jesus, a trait that runs through[…]
On the first of November, at the age of 79, Phillip E. Johnson died at his home in California. Johnson was a gifted author who produced many fruits. By his late 20s he was a professor of law at the University of California, Berkley. He studied at both Harvard and the University of Chicago. In[…]
MANY PASSAGES in Scripture, both the Old and the New Testaments, are disconcertingly violent, as in today’s Gospel: Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. Parallels to this text occur in[…]
Now He is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to Him all of them are alive. (Lk. 20:38) As we approach the end of the liturgical year, the Sacred Liturgy invites us to ponder the four last things: death, judgment, Heaven and hell. These are realities that help us to live[…]
A priest I knew many years ago opposed to the move from Latin to English in the prayers and readings at Mass. “For,” he said, “if the people heard the creed in their own language, they might discover that they didn’t believe it.” An instance of what he meant may be found in today’s Gospel,[…]
For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save what the lost. (Lk. 19:10) ⧾ The conversion of Zacchaeus may be said to be a consequence of our Lord’s preaching. Last Sunday we heard the parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee and given the sequence in the narrative, it is[…]
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats, 1919 After a six-week campaign, marked with nastiness and recriminations,[…]
