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It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope. (Pope Benedict XVI)

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God. (Saint John of the Cross, +1591)

Professor Janine Langan, Requiescat in Pace

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Professor Janine Langan, founder of the Christianity and Culture program at the University of Toronto: St. Michael's College. A long time educator, along with her...

Handel and His Miraculous Messiah

Handel's Messiah dates back to 1742, an Oratorio that pulls out all the stops, usually connected with Christmas, but actually follows the whole life of our Saviour from His birth, through His Passion, to...

Sunday Musical Offering: Jean Mouton’s Nesciens Mater

Jean Mouton (1459 - 1522) was a French priest, canon and, like Vivaldi (also ordained), a prolific composer, well ahead of his time in his masterful use of polyphony, chords and harmony. From what...

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.  Indeed, the Lord is near (Philippians 4:4-5)

So we venerate the martyrs with the same veneration of love and fellowship that we give to the holy men of God still with us. We sense that the hearts of these latter are...

God has chosen the weak of the world, to confound the strong. He has chosen what is nothing,* so that no human creature may boast in the presence of God. (1 Cor 1:27)

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