O, Canada; Hail, Joseph
(From a few years ago, but still very relevant...) Ed.
Devotion to St. Joseph has deep roots in Canada. Of course we are familiar with...
Fourth Sunday of Lent: Siloam and Spiritual Blindness
Once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light – for the fruit of the light...
Mercy, Not Mutilation!
(Father Robert Weaver makes an intriguing analogy here, in the theme of not accepting 'who we are' before God, whether that be a different...
A Few Good Men, and the Tragic Tale of the Renfrew School Board
As mentioned previously, a concerned parent, and former teacher, L.J. Helferty, gave an address a couple of weeks ago to the Renfrew School Board,...
Byrd’s Ne Irascaris Domine – Be Not Angry, O Lord, Forever
For our Sunday musical offering this week, we present William Byrd's sublime setting of the Lenten motet Ne Irascaris Domine, in four parts, first...
Christ Comes to Meet Us, To Take Away our Sins
As we journey through the beautiful season of Lent the Church has provided us with some magnificent Gospel readings. In the First Sunday of...
Third Sunday and Thirsting at the Well For the Water of Life
‘Give me a drink’ (Jn. 4:7).
The conversation of Our Lord and the Samaritan woman revolves around the gift of water. This request is presented...
Tagging the Palace Walls
I was in Desmond’s Hip City.
Delroy Wilson’s musty Dancing Mood
posters strewn underfoot. Party for the End of the World
slapped on the hoarding, made from...
Contra Cardinal McElroy’s Moral Muddle
In January, Cardinal Robert McElroy, one of the most recent Bishops elevated to the cardinalate by Pope Francis, published quite a controversial article in...
Trials, Purification and Transfiguration
And He was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white (Mt. 17:2).
On the second Sunday...
