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
I’ve been gone for a couple of days, on pilgrimage to Martyrs’ Shrine, in Midland, Ontario, of which I have written a number of times before, commemorating the eight Jesuits who were put to death in odium fidei by the Iroquois back in the mid-seventeenth century. The site of Saint-Ignace, where Saints Jean de Brebeuf[…]
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A note to all our readers: “Unplanned” – based on the powerful and moving true story of the conversion of former Planned Parenthood employee Abby Johnson – is screening in select theatres across Canada for ONE week: July 12-18th. Please fill a car with friends and family and see this film! As they become available,[…]
Take care of him and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend. (Lk. 10:35). The parable of the Good Samaritan is the answer to this question: ‘And who is my neighbour?’ (Lk. 10:29). Our Lord expands the definition of neighbour beyond the bounds of nationality or race. This well-known parable[…]
At the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we begin with the call to repentance and to a reflective manner of life is issued in what is called the Penitential Rite. The most common form of this rite is what we call the Confiteor or the I Confess. The Confiteor is the traditional[…]
There is no strict formula to being the parents of saints, but there are things one can do to ameliorate the process, as I tried to point out in some inchoate way in the reflection on the Benedict Option yesterday. All parents can really do is provide the example, the exhortation and the environment in[…]
My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness. (2 Cor 12:9) I have always been intrigued by the meaning of these words by which Our Lord assures the Apostle Paul of the assistance of His grace and the power of this grace at work not only in him but if we[…]
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Col 3:17) As a beginning student of ancient Greek, I was amazed to find out that the original Greek word for “gratitude” is Eucharistia. Whenever our Lord and[…]
A few good reads we might suggest: In the metaphysical maelstrom that oft characterizes this current Magisterium, a nugget of clarity, in the recent document from the Congregation for Education on the insanity of gender fluidity. Male and Female He Created Them explains in no uncertain terms that in the beginning we were created, as[…]
There never was a marriage with no pain But they let hurts be helps along the way To greater union, making faults their gain And forging gold from dross, marble from clay. The secret of their love is not the loss Of self, but rather each self turning outward, Finding its centre in that[…]
