Mary’s Fiat
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, to all our readers! This feast commemorates the conception of the Son of God in the womb of...
What Happened?
For these latter days of Lent, I just began reading Father Romano Guardini's Jesus Christus - his 1963 meditation on the life of the...
The Fire of Vincent Ferrer
Saint Vincent Ferrer (+1419), whose commemoration is April 5th, was a fiery, intense, highly intelligent Dominican missionary, who travelled the length and breadth of...
The Hidden Holiness of Margaret of Castello
Margaret of Castello (+1287 - 1320) is the patroness of the unborn, the disabled, the blind.
Little Margaret was herself 'disabled', even if she may...
Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin: Martyr of Silence
Bd. Marie-Anne Blondin (+1890), whose optional memorial falls today in our fair Dominion, the day of her birth in 1809, five decades before Canada...
Pretense at Saint John Lateran
Pretense:
A false appearance or action intended to deceive.
A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext.
Something imagined or pretended. (https://www.wordnik.com/words/pretense)
What term...
Easter, Atonement and the Mystagogy of Our Faith
These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you – that everything written about me in the Law...
Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
Lies come in all types - Half-lies, white lies, truthful lies, lying truths, and the 'damned lies' of statistics. Saint Thomas, following Augustine, defines...
Marriage, Divorce and Seeking Happiness
The old joke has it that Milton wrote Paradise Lost after he got married; and when his wife died, he penned the sequel, Paradise...
The Mauling of Dahl
Roald Dahl (+1990) is being mauled, along with Dr. Seuss (+1991), and, as the Cat in the Hat might declare, we should be appalled,...