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
If it ’twere not the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we would celebrate today one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic of saints, Philip Neri, (+1595), the founder of the Congregation of the Oratory named after him, first in Rome (the city of which he was called the ‘second Apostle’), with houses now throughout the world.[…]
In the liturgical revisions after Vatican II, the more complex hierarchy of feasts was simplified, so that we now have solemnities, feasts, memorials and optional memorials, the last of which dot the calendar, and are, as their name implies, optional, so that we may celebrate them as our proclivity – primarily our devotion – moves[…]
“My motto; ‘Totus Tuus’ is inspired by the teaching of St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort. These two words express total belonging to Jesus through Mary: ‘Tuus totus ego sum, et omnia mea tua sunt,’ St Louis Marie wrote, and he translates his words: ‘I am all yours, and all that I have is yours, O most loving Jesus,[…]
There are two saints of impossible or desperate causes – Saint Jude, one of the Twelve, and today’s Saint Rita of Cascia (+1457). Although she wanted to enter religious life, Rita was married off to an irascible, abusive, philandering, feud-fighting nobleman, Paolo Mancini, at the tender age of twelve (things were different back then), bearing[…]
What Christ said of the poor might be said of intellectuals: they will always be with us. Then the question naturally arises: in what ways are we fortunate, or unfortunate, that this is so? The Role of the Intellectual If there is a mark of distinction for authentic intellectuals, it is the one identified by[…]
The ‘Rosary of Modern Sorrows’ (RMS) is made by the American company, ‘Contemplative Rebellion’ (CR) and is sold on-line for US$62. It is unique, quite eye-catching and the CR web-site invites us “into guided meditation on the pain and suffering of our brothers and sisters in the U.S. and around the world.” The big issue[…]
Today commemorates Saint Brendan (+577) the sixth century Irish monk, the ‘Navigator’, whose main claim to fame – besides his holiness of life – is a seven year trans-Atlantic voyage in a boat made of animal-hides upon which he and sixteen fellow monks embarked, discovering North America many centuries before the time Giovanni Caboto –[…]
Here are some of the warnings Our Lady of Fatima gave to Blessed Jacinta, in turn to give to others, before her death from influenza, in great suffering offered up for sinners, on February 20, 1920, just shy of turning ten years old. “More souls go to hell because of sins of impurity more than[…]
The upcoming feast of Saint Matthias, May 14th, paradoxically marks the sombre anniversary of the legalization of abortion in Canada, under Trudeau Sr., in 1969. Omnibus Bill C-150, officially the Criminal Law Amendment Act , also brought into legalized gun control, contraception, sodomy, RIDE checks (with the 0.08 level), gambling and outlawed cruelty to animals. […]
A blessed Fourth Sunday of Easter, also known as’ Good Shepherd’ Sunday after the Gospel reading, upon which Father Callam offers an insightful meditation. As an extension of this, in turn, is the focus of this Sunday on vocations, especially to the priesthood as the ‘spiritual shepherds’ of the faithful, who nurture us with the[…]
