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
On Saturday 31 December 2022 – the very last day of last year, Pope Benedict XVI entered eternity. Every time the Lord gives me the grace to think about Pope Benedict the more I feel in my heart a great gratitude to the Lord Jesus for having chosen him to lead his Church. For Pope[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 9 August 2006 John, the theologian Dear Brothers and Sisters, Before the holidays I had begun sketching small portraits of the Twelve Apostles. The Apostles were Jesus’ travelling companions, Jesus’ friends. Their journey with Jesus was not only a physical journey from Galilee to Jerusalem, but[…]
After walking our Advent journey the time has come for us to celebrate the feast of Christmas, the Feast of feasts as St Francis of Assisi used to call it. Il Poverello called itso because Christmas unravels God’s most astounding Humility. Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords, (1 Tim 6:15), humbled himself to such an extreme that,[…]
An intriguing look at the place of the Virgin Mary in Christmas carols, which, somewhat to my surprise, she is largely absent, being mentioned, even obliquely, in only about 28% of what we might class under that genre. But, then, Our Lady herself loves to be unknown, and her soul and her renown is only[…]
Can We Finally Drop the SSPX Debate? This might seem an odd time to discuss the SSPX, as things unravel in our world – terrorism, war, murder and ideologies – all the while the Church, or at least the current Magisterium, seems to be imploding in on itself in a modernist muddle. But it’s at[…]
A conversation between Dr. John Campbell and Dr. Angus Dalgliesh, highly recommended, the latter one of the top and most experienced oncologists in Britain, who explains the connection – in causal terms, beyond the correlative – between the mRNA ‘vaxx’ and the explosion of cancer rates – and often explosive cancers, especially in the young.[…]
For those who need a bit of a lift from all the dark and dreary news of late, in these dark days of December – there is light, and the Light, on their way! – here is a delightful podcast on ‘Hobbit Virtue’, as instantiated in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy – and,[…]
On Saturday 16 December, we started the Christmas novena. As the name itself suggests, the word novena comes from the Latin ‘nouenus’ which means nine each or occurring as a group of nine. In our Catholic faith tradition, ‘novena’ points to a devotion made up of prayer requesting for some particular grace for the individual and/or for somebody else. Several are the novenas which are prayed daily over a nine successive days period. The idea of novena we[…]
On a note of hope as we approach the birth of Christ – in a world that seems so devoid of that powerful virtue – here is a fitting reflection by Peter Leithart, which helps us see providence somehow at work, even in the midst of profound and systemic evil. Christ exhorts us always to[…]
Today is the solemnity of Mary Immaculate, a day on which many consecrate themselves to her, and the question we may ask, why do we consecrate ourselves to Mary? First, our consecration to her certainly please Jesus. Let us remind ourselves what Saint Maximilian Kolbe tells us: Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin[…]