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
Today’s Saint Lawrence (+258) lives on in the legend of his own divine comedy, a Spaniard from Valencia, chosen in the very bloom of his early maturity by the intelligent and saintly Pope Sixtus II to be Archdeacon of Rome, in charge of distributing the wealth of the Church. It is said that Lawrence’s parents[…]
Eighty year ago, Paul Tibbets flew his B-52 bomber, the ‘Enola Gay’ – named after his own mother – and dropped the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima. Under his guidance, the ‘superfortress’ took off in the middle of the night from the American air force base in Tinian, taking six hours to reach Japan. At 8:15 […]
As well as being the feast of the Transfiguration, and the anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI, this day also has the sombre 80th anniversary of the first of two uses – and so far only, praise God – of nuclear weaponry in war: On August 6th, 1945, ‘the bomb’, as it was[…]
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is hosting its annual Wojtyla Summer Conference from the 7th- 10th of August. The theme this year is the Seven Liberal Arts: Ordering the Soul. The weekend has talks, dialogue and good conversation, along with music, fine food and enjoying the beautiful outdoors of the Madawaska Valley, including Lake[…]
(Here is a very fitting and a propos review and meditation on this Solemnity of the Sacred Heart from Father Marco Testa on Saint Jean Vianney, the Curé d’Ars, the patron saint of priests. As the good Curé put it, if we really understood the priest on earth, we would die, not of fright, but[…]
On Monday 2 August the universal Church celebrates what is called The Pardon of Assisi. This great feast, which ranks as a solemnity within the Franciscan festivities, is another great sign of the immense good the Lord himself performs to his Church and the world through the Franciscan movement. But what the Pardon of Assisi is[…]
It’s just been announced that the Oratorian, Saint John Henry Newman will be declared a Doctor of the Church, making him the 38th with that illustrious title. This is good news. Newman was, if anything, anti-modernist and against what the growing tendency, even in his day, to deny objective truth in revealed religion: And, I[…]
Saint Pantaleon (+305) was a very popular early martyr, even though little is known about his life. The martyrology has it that he was a Christian, but strayed from his faith, and studied medicine – or what passed for the healing arts in those days – and became the personal physician of the emperor, either[…]
In light of today’s Saint Charbel – a hermit and contemplative – and last Sunday’s Gospel on the roles of of ‘Martha’ and ‘Mary’, I thought I’d share this intriguing essay by Thomas Merton, on the respective active and contemplative lives. This distinction goes back to the earliest days of the Church, and is discussed[…]
POPE JOHN PAUL II APOSTOLIC LETTER ISSUED MOTU PROPRIO PROCLAIMING SAINT BRIDGET OF SWEDEN SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA AND SAINT TERESA BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS CO-PATRONESSES OF EUROPEHIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II FOR PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE 1. The hope of building a more just world, a world more worthy of the human person, stirred by[…]
