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
The weather and the economy are both volatile, of late, with the aptly-named Hurricane Michael (‘who is like God’) smashing into the Florida panhandle, the largest storm in a half-century, or a century, depending on whom you read. Our capacity to measure such things as a storm’s ‘strength’ has, I am sure, become more accurate over[…]
I hope that all our readers had a delightful Thanksgiving weekend, a secular holiday, one may think, but as Christians we are called to ‘baptize’ the culture, to turn what could be an excuse simply to ‘manducare, bibere et epulare’, to paraphrase Saint Paul, ‘eat, drink and be merry’, into something spiritual and good. Just[…]
A blessed and joyous Thanksgiving to all our readers! As Saint Paul admonishes us through his letter to Thessalonians, “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus…” And as Chesterton would put it, the secret to life is having gratitude even for the smallest good, for there is[…]
And so, following upon my comments yesterday on the mask slipping off the face of evil, it begins: A trio of physicians – oh, why not give their names so we can pray for these misguided souls – Carey DeMichelis, Randi Zlotnik Shaul and Adam Rapoport – all of them, ironically employed at Sick Kids’ Hospital[…]
Troubling news from the pro-life front, as a demonstrator, Marie-Claire Bissonnette, (an alumna of Seat of Wisdom where I teach) was physically attacked (round-house kicked) by a pro-abortion demonstrator during last Sunday’s Life Chain in Toronto, after he had defaced their signs and clothing, including that of little children. The insouciant response of the police[…]
I enjoy the serendipity of providence when the liturgical readings match up unwittingly with the day, as we celebrate Ste. Therese of Lisieux, more accurately, of the Holy Face and the Child Jesus, who entered Carmel in her sixteenth year, and died of tuberculosis at twenty four. As Christ proclaims in today’s Gospel, we must[…]
A blessed feast of the Archangels to all our readers! Father Scott’s article on the Saint Michael prayer points out that this used to be the feast only of the great defender of heaven, he ‘who is like God’, hence, Michaelmas. The other two angels were added in the revisions after Vatican II, Raphael, ‘the[…]
A brief note on this Sunday, on which I normally do not write, but make the occasional exception: For today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, more commonly ‘Padre Pio’, a saint who worked miracles of the most astounding variety, reading souls and hearts, and was in touch with[…]
Saint Matthew, the writer of the first Gospel, represents all those ‘called’ from sin, to the highest of virtues. We know little of his life, only that he was a ‘tax collector’, a loathed profession, squeezing out the hard-earned coins from his fellow Jews to enrich the already rich, such as Herod, which may sound[…]
Nero was given to fiddling while Rome burned, while we see what seems like a lot of muddling, as the Church faces perhaps her greatest existential crisis, and our own nation of Canada could be a rather dire economic apocalypse. As Father George Rutler opines in his inimitable way, it seems rather misplaced for the[…]
