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
Saint Ignatius of Antioch (+107) joyfully ‘went to the lions’, as the saying goes, meeting his martyrdom in the Coliseum, perhaps less than a decade after the death of the last Apostle, John the Evangelist. Ignatius was the epi-scopos – literally the ‘overseer’ – of the ancient diocese of Antioch, where the ‘disciples were first[…]
A blessed Sunday to all our readers, on which we always commemorate Christ’s resurrection and triumph over decay and destruction, trampling death for all eternity. The readings speak of the cleansing of the lepers, Naaman, by the prophet Elisha, and the ten, by Christ Himself. All for doing something simple – like asking – and[…]
A blessed and joyous Thanksgiving to all our readers, a greeting which we would have offered earlier, but some technical glitches got in the way. Today is also the memorial of Saint Callixtus, who seems to have lived a rather dissolute and rebellious life in youth, but to have undergone a deep conversion at some[…]
We have two saints on the universal calendar today, and one blessed yet to be put thereon, who will be canonized this Sunday. In historical order, the first is Saint Denis, patron of Paris, her first bishop, and of France. He was likely martyred in the mid-third century in the Decian persecution, as the legend[…]
Today marks the beginning of two synods, the one on the ‘Amazon’, with its controversial working document, and the one in Germany, with perhaps its even more controversial agenda: Married priests; ‘natural revelation’ given to indigenous peoples; LGBTQ inclusion; the morality of sexual expression outside of traditional marriage; female ‘ordination’, that is, to the diaconate;[…]
What is one to say of our Prime Minister – or Prime Minstrel, as he has been dubbed – prancing around in blackface, curiously downplayed by the CBC and other Liberal-friendly media to perhaps the ontologically more accurate, yet morally slightly less damning, ‘brownface’ in media reports? Yet there really is no real way to[…]
For an official biography of today’s home-grown Canadian saint, Emilie Tavernier, the youngest of fifteen children – yes, large families are quite conducive to holiness, if lived well and with joy – beatified by Pope Saint John Paul II in 2001, please visit the Vatican’s own here.
O BLESSED Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Walsingham, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon us, our parish, our country, our homes, and our families, and upon all who greatly hope and trust in thy prayers, (especially…) Bythee it was that Jesus, our Saviour and hope, was[…]
Before we leave Padre Pio in the liturgical rearview mirror, an anecdote that sort of captures the man, who lived his Faith, as do all the saints, and should we all, as though it were really true. Not sort of true, or likely true, or true in a way that we would rather not, but[…]
‘Binding synodality’ we add to the list of oxymorons – those obviously incompatible concepts that people still stick together. Synods, that is, gatherings of bishops, do not bind anyone, in or out of conscience, unless the Bishop of Rome decrees they do by his ‘supreme, universal authority’. As the note added to the Dogmatic Constitution[…]
