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
For anyone who knows Hebrew, reading the Bible must have an element of fun, something like solving a puzzle. For the names all mean something, and the reader who can interpret them thus has a clue to the role this or that person plays in salvation history. I mention this fact, because today’s reading bristles[…]
The Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, which falls the Sunday after the Epiphany Sunday, officially ends the liturgical Christmas season. There are some very inspiring quotes from the Fathers of the Church concerning the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord. St Basil the Great (329-379) presents this feast as a school of[…]
A blessed feast of Our Lord’s Baptism to all our readers! In the midst of a world gone mad, ’tis incumbent that we Catholics keep our wits and our joy about us, which includes keeping our eyes on the ‘one thing needful’, on eternity, the end and purpose of it all, by living liturgically, in[…]
And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased’ (Lk. 3:22). ⧾ Today’s Feast of the Lord’s Baptism brings to a completion our celebration of Christmas and the Epiphany. The Epiphany specifically celebrates the manifestation of Christ Our Lord to the nations and today’s Feast likewise[…]
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:10 Hilaire Belloc’s somewhat long and forgotten Survivals and New Arrivals (1929) is worth looking at again from a contemporary perspective. Subtitled The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church, this book reveals Belloc to[…]
A very blessed Solemnity of the Epiphany, or Second Sunday of Christmas, depending on where you’re reading this. Here in Canada, the feast commemorating the visit of the Magi is moved to the previous Sunday, for ‘pastoral reasons’, which has the unfortunate effect of compressing the Twelve Days of Christmas. So we live them out[…]
The Divine Office is the prayer book of priests. It consists of psalms, hymns and prayers that are said through the day. Some lay people use a shorter version of it, at morning and evening I mention it because the infancy Gospel of Luke contains the words of the old man, Simeon, who greeted the[…]
Hail, holy Mother! The Child to whom you gave birth is the King of Heaven and earth forever. Christmas is a Solemnity with an Octave. This means that for eight days the Sacred Liturgy celebrates the Mystery of Christmas. The last day of the Octave is kept as the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of[…]
Josephology is a relatively new branch of theology that has appeared about two hundred to one hundred-fifty years ago. It has its origins in Saint Thomas Aquinas and some notable medieval theologians, continues to grow and develop through the efforts of Doctors of the Church such as Saint Teresa of Avila, but it really begins[…]
Introduction Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver has aptly said that “abortion is the central social issue of this moment in our national history ‒ not the only issue, but the foundational issue; the pivotal issue. For Catholics to ignore it or downplay it or ‘contextualize’ it would be an act of cowardice.”[1] The election[…]
