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
Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world – with nearly 300 million people, and 87% of them at least nominally followers of Islam. Pope Francis just completed his pilgrimage there, in a different mode of his namesake of old, when in 1219 the original Francis recklessly went to convert the Sultan in[…]
On this day 68 years ago, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, whose memorial we recalled on September 5th, received in her life a call within a call. The voice from God happened in 1946, as she was journeying from Calcutta to Darjeeling, on the train, the Lord himself asked Mother Teresa to found a new religious community[…]
It is with sadness to let readers know that Father Joseph Hattie, O.M.I. died this morning, Sunday, September 8th, fittingly on what is Our Lady’s birthday, whom he served so well. As he used to say when asked a question, ‘let me check with my boss’, meaning, Mary Immaculate. Those here in Canada may have[…]
The feast of the nativity of the Virgin Mary, which falls on the 8th of September, is a splendid moment wherein we as Christians ponder, with the saints and the Popes, the deeper meaning of this commemoration. Let us start with St John Damascene (born c. 675, Damascus—died December 4, 749, near Jerusalem). According to this saint,[…]
Do you believe in the Big Bang? We wrote of the theory, as formulated by the Catholic priest, Father Georges Lemaitre, back in 1927, for which there is much evidence, even if the implications are, well, sort of weird, as is much of science. Does that make God weird, Who invented science, along with the[…]
On this September 5th, the entire world celebrates the outstanding life of St Teresa of Calcutta, known as ‘Mother Teresa’, and she is a special person for me. To begin with we share the same birthday, August 26th. Also, on 10 September when she received the grace of living the “call within a call”, namely[…]
As we celebrate the great feast of this eminent Father and Doctor of the Church, one thing comes straight into my heart and mind: Augustine was really a great wanderer of let God find Him and saved him At first Augustine thought that he might find his deep longing of the heart in materialism. He[…]
Today, the entire Church celebrates the beautiful memorial of St Monica, the Mother of St Augustine. Since, a mother can often be best described by her son, we turn to Saint Augustine, who offers us a very vivid description of God’s greatness in his mother Monica. She had to face two great challenges in her[…]
Pope Zephyrinus, whose feast is traditionally celebrated on August 26th, governed the Church for 18 years at the end of the third century (199 – 217), during the persecution of Emperor Septimus Severus. In accord with Saint Paul’s warning to the Corinthians that heresies are sure to come (11:19), heresies did indeed abound from the[…]
A hymn to Our Lady of Częstochowa, from the shrine at Jasna Gora: And from World Youth Day in Poland, back in 2016, which may as well be 1016: