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
(In light of today’s Gospel, on the calling of Levi, and our Lord eating with ‘tax collectors and sinners’, here are some fitting words on what holiness means from contributor Carl Sundell). Pope Benedict XVI knew knew the foremost item on his agenda. “First of all, I have no hesitation in saying that all pastoral[…]
(This sermon by Rev. Msgr. Vincent Nicholas Foy was preached at the evening Mass a week before Ash Wednesday that year, on Sunday, February 12, 1956, and is perhaps more applicable today than those more traditional days of half a century ago. Monsignor Foy died on March 13, 2017, at the age of 101, after[…]
T.S. Eliot published his poem Ash Wednesday in 1930, after he had composed during his conversion to Anglicanism (in 1927). The theme is, fittingly, the soul in its journey to find God, with allusions to the world, the flesh, the devil, and, on the other side, Christ, Our Lady and Dante’s Purgatorio. An excerpt, which[…]
Our nation is in great turmoil; and those who should provide us with moral leadership are either completely silent or dithering as they assess the political landscape in the hope of making most of any crisis for partisan gains. They are not public servants; rather, they act or fail to act, in the interests of[…]
(As a pre-Lenten meditation on this Eighth Sunday, here is an apologia from Carl Sundell on the truth of the Resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. After all, as Saint Paul himself alludes, the purpose of all our striving – all our prayers, works, joys and sacrifices, all of what we do and[…]
February 25th is the liturgical memorial of Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani. This Italian born Benedictine nun surely has left a great legacy that needs to be appreciated both in Malta and beyond its shores. The life of Sister Maria Adeodata (born Maria Teresa) Pisani was a fairly one: Born on the 29th of December in[…]
(As we make our way through the Sirach in the readings for Mass, also called Ecclesiasticus, a deuterocanonical book in the canon, considered ‘apocryphal’ by the Protestants, here is a fine meditation by new contributor Peter Bartholomew on why both the protocanon and deuterocanon are all canonical in the true Catholic sense. A good lead[…]
I’ve been hearing confessions now for over fifty years, and I have noticed that there is one sin that comes up more than any other; it’s connected to today’s Gospel, about loving your enemy, “turning the other cheek.” The penitent will say something like this: I know that I should forgive everyone, but I there[…]
Part 1 of this reflection on the recently released Vatican document, Antiqua et Nova (AN), focused on the first half of the document, which provides a clear understanding on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence. Part 2 will now focus on the second half of Antiqua et Nova, which itself focuses on the[…]
Today in the New Rite is the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter at Rome, celebrated in the Old Rite as the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch (the Old Rite celebrates the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter at Rome on January 18), and in the spirit of this[…]
