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
Here is a sober thought. Let us suppose we might be looking for the first atheists in the history of the world. My candidates would be Adam and Eve. They chose, at least briefly, to believe at the behest of the serpent that they could be like God by eating the forbidden fruit of a[…]
On Monday February 22 we celebrate the Feast of the Chair of St Peter. What do we mean by the Chair of Peter and what significance does it have for the Papacy vis-a-vis the Church and the world at large? Obviously when we are talking about the Chair of St Peter we are in no[…]
EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION WITH THE NEW CARDINALS HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II Thursday, 22 February 2001 Feast of Saint Peter’s Chair 1. “‘Who do you say that I am?’. Simon Peter replied, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’” (Mt 16: 15-16). This conversation between Christ and his disciples, which we have just heard again, is always[…]
“Pray always.” (1 Thessalonians 5.17) If we are to take Saint Paul’s words seriously, we see that there must be different forms of prayer; we can’t be on our knees or in church all the time. And given that fact, we are immediately invited to put these forms in some sort of order, starting with[…]
”Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged” (John 19: 1) The visions of the 19th century German mystic, Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, vividly depict the flagellation of Christ. All in all very few realize that the fact that the body of our Lord was torn to shreds and looked like one wound, was not[…]
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS Basilica of Santa Sabina Ash Wednesday, 26 February 2020 (This homily is from last year, 2020, at the beginning of a Lent that in some ways has never really ended – The Holy Father’s words are still relevant, and nostalgic to think that this was just before the universal[…]
Fasting was an essential aspect of primitive Christianity, as it had been in Old Testament times. That the followers of Jesus would fast is taken for granted: When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and[…]
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We shall proclaim destruction – why? why? – well, Because the idea is so fascinating. But we must get a little exercise. We’ll have a few fires – we’ll spread a few legends … And the whole earth will resound with the cry: ‘A new and righteous law is coming.’” Dostoevsky, The Devils When George[…]
As we are soon to say farewell to ‘Ordinary Time’, perhaps a rendition of Palestrina’s masterful rendition of the Salve Regina, first published in 1584, would be appropriate, the Marian antiphon for the season, before we transition – pardon the verb – to the Ave Regina Coelorum. And, in honour of Saints Cyril and Methodius,[…]
