Saint Jean Vianney, a Priest for Priests
On this day, August 4th, in 1859, the world witnessed the quiet passing into eternity of a most remarkable man, a simple country priest,...
The Eucharist is Everything
Taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the...
Eighteenth Sunday: Earthly and Heavenly Eutopia
The feast described by the prophet Isaiah in today’s first reading, with its “wine, milk and rich food,” was for the Jews a symbol...
Martha and Mary: The Good Part
Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her (Lk. 10: 42).
⧾ In Christian tradition Martha and Mary have...
Old Thunder: A Retrospective on Hilaire Belloc
(The following piece, if memory serves, was submitted and published by Carl Sundell a year or two ago, but I can find no record...
Systemic Blindness
How can you fight something you cannot see properly?—An Officer in Training with Canadian Armed Forces
As Canada languishes in this protracted period of medical...
Sixteenth Sunday: Persevering in Faith in the Face of Evil
The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good seed are the children...
Sensible Miss Austen
It’s hard to contain my pleasure or my surprise at the continuing interest in Jane Austen. The more-or-less successful adaptations of her books for...
Fifteenth Sunday: Applying the Parables
Then the disciples came and asked Jesus, ‘Why do you speak to them in parables?’ He answered, ‘To you it has been given to...
Finding Our Way: Mass Ad Orientem, Towards Our Saviour
Have you ever been really lost? Lost to the point of having no clue which direction you needed to go? What would you do...