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
Call me a sentimentalist, but it’s one of my favourite short stories, evoking an Ireland that no longer is, but may be again: https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/walshm-quietman/walshm-quietman-00-h.html The 1952 film version of The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, as is usual for Hollywood, takes great liberties with its source material, and is really a different[…]
Signs can be ambiguous, or they can be very certain. There are the ‘signs’ of the sacraments fall into the latter category, given to us to ensure we are given grace, in its various forms, not least the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Then there are the certain signs of the approved[…]
In one of those odd confluences of history, today marks the day in 1793 when the Committee of Public Safety – a modern ring, that – was formed during the French Revolution, under Robespierre. The Committee was responsible for sending untold thousands to the guillotine, for being ‘anti-revolution’, or even for having insufficient revolutionary sympathies.[…]
I was never a big fan of the Harry Potter books, for various reasons. I tried to read one – I was not their target audience, in age or proclivity – and just could not. I’ve had reservations about their effects on their younger audience, as the series of books followed and shaped them through[…]
Our parish priest reminded us this morning that by statutory law in Canada, today is officially ‘John Paul II Day’. I must confess that I did not know, and somehow missed, that back on December 16th, 2014, Parliament passed an Act to establish this day, to commemorate the great pontiff: 2 Throughout Canada, in each and[…]
On the theme of suffering on this Good Friday, there is a pertinent and evocative reflection by James Bogle on OnePeterFive on the bombing of Japanese Catholicism – that is, the unnecessary destruction of Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945, three days after the incineration of Hiroshima on August 6th. We have written of the evils[…]
IT IS DONE! Deep into His Passion; deep into my soul Now is the time! Commit to be whole Sad that it is, my will did part ‘Twas my beginning carried deep in my heart As sunrise came and sunset went Year after year, I lived Duty Lent Oh! How I strived to[…]
Popule Meus, by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Christ’s lament from the Cross, ‘My People, what have I done to you, or in how have I offended you? Answer me!’ The Reproaches, also by Victoria, who wrote the music before it was imitated by Thorin and company, who sound like monks, and not the other way around:[…]
EZEKIEL 36: 23-28 “I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT IN THE MIDST OF YOU” After we change our sinful ways, God promises to put His spirit in the midst of us! How beautiful to picture in my soul as if we are all in the country, where everything grows in abundance and beauty, while we humbly[…]
What we seem to know of what happened in Moscow, is that four gunmen stormed a sold-out concert, killed at least 137 people – many more, up to 200, were injured, some critically. But mystery abounds, as is so often the case in our house-of-mirrors world. Contrary to how these things usually go – the[…]
