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Editor's Corner
Music, Joy, Laetare and Lent
Laetare Sunday marks the halfway point of Lent. It is so named after the Introit, from Isaiah 66:10ā11 and Psalms 121:1.
LƦtare Jerusalem et conventum facite omnes qui diligitis eam; gaudete cum lƦtitia, qui in...
Nota in Brevis
Pilgrimage to the Martyrs
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is embarking tomorrow on our annual pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, following the steps of Saints Jean de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant and their companions who gave their...
Editor's Corner
The Moral Quagmire of Total War and Unconditional Surrender
War is always a bad business, even in the most just of them, the criteria for which the current conflagration does not seem fit. Whatever one's view, as one of the worst of evils...
Editor's Corner
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
We would remiss on this March 10th if we didnāt mention the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, a group of elite Roman legionaries ā called the Fulminata (āthe ligthningā regiment) - who en masse professed...
Editor's Corner
Saint John Ogilvie, the Last Martyr of Scotland
John Ogilvie was born in 1579, just as the Protestant 'reformation' was taking hold in Britain, including his native land of Scotland, led by the fiery apostate priest John Knox. Catholicism would soon be...
Editor's Corner
Saint Frances of Rome – Finding Your Path in Unexpected Ways
We should not be surprised that the saints speak to us through the ages. How they responded in their own era with its own troubles and crises offers us an example for how to...
Nota in Brevis
The Radical Prodigal, Saint John of God
Saints are by definition āextremeā, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world. Hence, they act as though all that mattered were the...
Editor's Corner
Saints Perpetua, Felicity…and Thomas Aquinas
Today marks the memorial of the early martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, put to death likely in the year 203, under the reign of Septimius Severus, an emperor who seems on the whole to have...
