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Editor's Corner
Dina Belanger’s Unrelenting Quest for Perfection
Blessed Dina Belanger (+1929) is a home-grown Canadian saint whom we commemorate today. (The martyr Andre Grasset, whom we celebrated two days ago, is still a beatus). Born April 30th, 1897 in St. Roch,...
Editor's Corner
Gregory the Great, a Pope for All Seasons
One of the great joys of history is reminiscing about the past, giving hope for the present; for history is āeschatologicalā, moving towards a final purpose. Hence, we Catholics should never lose hope, and...
Editor's Corner
Andre Grasset, Canada’s First Homegrown Beatus
Blessed AndrƩ Grassett was the first Canadian to be beatified - not quite the first 'saint', which requires canonization, and that honour belongs to the heroic Jesuit martyrs (if we consider them Canadian, for...
Editor's Corner
The Legendary Hermit, Saints Giles, or Egidio
The life of Saint Giles, as many mediaeval saints, is steeped in legend. What we do know is that he had quite a following, his popularity attested by the countless places, villages, cities, churches...
Editor's Corner
Labour Day, Leisure and Life
Labour Day is a rather prosaic name for the last holiday of summer. Why not, 'blow out day', or 'the end of leisure, and back to work day' (at least for teachers and students),...
Nota in Brevis
Saint Raymond, the Not-Born, and Saint Aristedes, the Apologist
Saint Raymond Nonnatus, who died on this day in 1240, was a Mercedarian priest, whose Order, as their name implies, was taskedwith ransoming Christian slaves from the Moors (that is, Muslims). We might consider...
Editor's Corner
The Not so Hidden Life of Blessed John Juvenal Ancina
Saint Philip Neri, the founder of the Oratorians and the āsecond Apostleā of Rome, recommended reading books beginning with āSā, that is, lives of the saints, so that we may imitate at least some...
Editor's Corner
The Baptist Loses his Head
The celebration of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist - an expeditious entrance into heaven - is sort of a bookend to the summer; you may recall that June 24th, just after the...
