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
It has always been difficult for the homilist to preach on the feast of the Holy Family. In the old days, the priest would deliver a string of platitudes about loving mothers, provident fathers and so on. There’s a joke people used to tell about such sermons. After Mass Mrs. Smith said to Mrs. Jones,[…]
A Pew Research Center poll indicated one out of every ten Americans is an ex-Catholic. Add them up as if they were a church unto themselves and they would be the third largest church in America behind Catholics and Baptists. Why is this happening? That question could have a thousand answers. Some Catholics may leave[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Wednesday, 5 July 2006 John, son of Zebedee Dear Brothers and Sisters, Let us dedicate our meeting today to remembering another very important member of the Apostolic College: John, son of Zebedee and brother of James. His typically Jewish name means: “the Lord has worked grace”. He was mending his nets[…]
I don’t know about you, but I must admit to feeling a mixture of excitement and dread every time Christmas comes around. With shopping to be done, cards to be sent, food to be prepared, rooms to be cleaned … it can all be a bit much. And it doesn’t always help when people say,[…]
The Denial of Truth We live in an era where the denial of not only the ability to discern what is true from what is false runs rampant, but also the rejection of objective truth itself. Interestingly, everyone speaks about truth, whether it is politicians, doctors, journalists, celebrities, athletes, academics, or the common person, but[…]
Handel’s Messiah, first performed on April 13th, 1742 (in Dublin of all places) was Composed by a German, who had become a naturalised Brit, with a libretto in English. Handel’s Oratorio is customarily connected with Christmas, even though the work follows the whole life of the Saviour from His birth, through His Passion, to His[…]
Every year on December 17 the church intones the ‘O antiphons’ the joyous canticles in anticipation of the coming of Christ. But on the same day, the Church also commemorates the memorial of a seemingly forgotten friar, John de Matha, father of the Trinitarians (Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives) and[…]
His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation (Lk 1:4). Once again on this third Sunday of Advent we encounter the figure of John the Baptist, “the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight His paths.’” In the Liturgy of Advent John bears[…]
(In Advent, our devotion is focused on Saint John the Baptist, as the precursor of the Christ, but then we shift in the latter days to the Holy Family – Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and the soon-to-be born Christ child. Here is a speculative reflection by Joshua Filipetto, on the confirmation of Saint Joseph in[…]
Rev. Marco Testa, As We Worship So We Become: Meditations, Prayers and Devotions to the Most Holy Sacrament of The Altar: 2023. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass strengthens us to live Eucharistic lives of prayer, repentance, conversion, self-sacrifice, charity, adoration, witness. Through Christ’s sacrifice on the altar, as well as frequent Eucharistic Adoration, abundant[…]
