Agape Love
Theresa of Avila wrote that “love is like a perfume-filled room.” Could it be that we can only describe such an ineffable concept using...
Fifth Sunday of Easter and Union With the Eucharist
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither...
Keeping Advent Well
Everyone here knows that Advent is the season of waiting. As the readings for the first Sunday indicate, the fundamental characteristic of this time...
The 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of St. Joseph as Patron Saint of the...
Besides celebrating the great solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the Mother of God and Our beloved Mother, on December 8th we also...
Apostasy in Shusaku Endo’s Silence
A recent article in First Things by J.D. Flynn reflects upon Shusaku Endo’s 1966 Japanese novel Silence, now being released as a film directed by Martin Scorcese (which...
The Last Words of Pope Saint John Paul II
On this Holy Saturday, as come to the end of a long and difficult Lent for so many, these final messages of Pope Saint...
Fourth Sunday in Lent: Laetare, and Life’s Meaning and Purpose
For we are what He has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of...
Why Children (and Adults!) Should Learn Latin
Whenever the census in Canada rolls round, I suspect that I am one of the few people who, in the box where one reports...
Cultural Divides
You may have read a couple of weeks or so ago of a Montreal housing complex here in Canada that was until recently moving...
A Grace-Filled Pentecost! Come Holy Ghost!
‘If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make...
