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 theme common to Ezekiel and Saint Mark—the readings for the fourteenth Sunday, year B—is the necessity of faith . . . and, be it said, the difficulty of achieving it. The history of the Jews is a catalogue of the sin of idolatry, i.e., of surrendering their allegiance to the one true God for[…]
Our world is becoming increasingly violent; a world where people are led and misled by half-truths, slogans and ideological clichés. This violence is directed against individuals and institutions; and a new term – cancel culture – has been coined to describe what can happen to individuals, especially to historical figures and even institutions that may[…]
In 2015, when Justin Trudeau described Canada to the New York Times as the world’s “first postnational state,” adding “there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada”, he was said to be expressing a uniquely Canadian philosophy that some found bewildering – even reckless – but which could represent a radical new model of[…]
“I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” John 11:25-26 Josef Pieper (1904 –1997) was a German philosopher of the Platonist and Thomist schools of philosophy. His most highly regarded book is[…]
Our world is becoming increasingly violent; a world where people are led and misled by half-truths, slogans and ideological clichés. This violence is directed against individuals and institutions; and a new term – cancel culture – has been coined to describe what can happen to individuals, especially to historical figures and even institutions that may[…]
1. When you feel like quitting “You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds… What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.” 2. Why trials are necessary “Every tribulation whichever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal,[…]
Josef Rheinberger (+ 1901), a native of tiny Liechtenstein, but resident of Germany for most of his life, was a prolific fin de siècle composer, known mostly for his complex, beautiful concerti for organ, on which instrument he was a master. Yet his most recognized piece is his Abendlied (evening song), a transcendent polyphonic motet in six[…]
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? (Job. 38:1). We do well to consider the meaning of this question, posed by God in the dialogue with Job. The Book of Job is a reflection or dialogue on the problem of evil and the suffering of the just in this world. As such,[…]
Today, Sunday 20, 2021, in the English speaking world, we celebrate Father’s Day. That means that both Malta as well as Canada are celebrating the same memorial day. Adding to this, today, on Friday 20 June 2003, I was ordained a priest from the hands of a holy Archbishop Mons. Joseph Mercieca. Finally, these two[…]
Hilaire Belloc, The Cruise of the ‘Nona.’ 1925 On the whole, of the cads and gentlemen I have met, I could give the cads a shade of odds in the matter of salvation; which is not without its importance either. *** I learnt from a stoker two songs: one called The Corn Beef Can, and the other called[…]
