Thursday, September 4, 2025

Hope and Joy in these Latter Lenten Days

We are getting towards the latter days of the great journey of Lent, - and this has been a Lent to end all Lents,...

Putting Things in Perspective

I am in the midst of writing a reflection on our current - well, what shall we call it? - situation? crisis? apocalypse? all...

Prayer with the Holy Father

Pope Francis has asked all Christians to recite the Our Father with him at noon, Rome time, which means 7 a.m. EST, for most...

The Necessity of Receiving the Really Real Reality of the Eucharist

Catholics in many regions – more or less all of Canada – can no longer attend Mass, or receive Holy Communion, with few exceptions....

Supernatural Priorities

‘Tis not easy at a time like this to think rationally – for the world is entering a rather uncertain phase of history, to...

Fear No Evil

The headlines read like something out of an apocalyptic novel, written, say, a decade or so ago: Trudeau’s son elected Prime Minister and foists...

Allegri and Bach’s Passion

To help begin your journey through these forty days and forty nights, delve into Allegri's unmatched masterpiece Miserere mei, Deus, composed in the 1630's...

Imagining Corona

Napoleon once quipped that men live by imagination – by which, we may surmise, he meant that they live more in the future than...

Casimir, Strikes and Deficits

Saint Casimir died young - as the good are wont to do - entering eternity, after a battle with tuberculosis, on this day, March...

Prophetic Parodies

I’m not sure if that anti-rape dancing video we posted recently was a parody, but the influx of migrants does not seem to...