Tuesday, July 1, 2025

We are celebrating a feast day, consecrated for us by the blood of the apostles. Let us love their faith, their lives, their labours, their sufferings, their confession of faith, their preaching. (Saint Augustine, +430)

Editor's Corner

Happy Dominion Day!

Or, if you will, Canada Day, to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part...

The Protomartyrs of Rome

The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church - Tertullian (+240 A.D.) The first, or proto-, martyrs of the Church of Rome commemorate...

Saint Peter and Paul’s Eschatological Battle

A blessed solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul! They were comites, as they say in Latin, companions in life, and in death, both martyred under...

The Necessity of An ‘Ordo Amoris’

The notion of the ‘ordo amoris’ – the ‘order of love’ - has generated some debate of late, not least since some big names...

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and Saint Cyril of Alexandria

Today is the traditional feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, even if it be muted this year due to the Sacred Heart -...

Nota in Brevis

Pope Saint John Paul II’s Consecration of the World to the Immaculate Heart

WE ENTRUST, O MARY, AND CONSECRATE THE WHOLE WORLD TO YOUR IMMACULATE HEART! On Thursday, 13 May 1982, after the concelebrated Mass in Fatima, Pope...

Homily of Pope John Paul II on the Sacred Heart on His Journey to...

(This may bring back memories for some readers, of the apostolic visit of the great Pope from a by-gone era. Canada of 1984 was...

Dedication, Devotion and Reparation to the Sacred Heart: The Twelve Promises

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is popularly associated with St. Margaret Mary Alocoque, a nun of the Visitation Order who during the...

Britain’s Descent into Darkness

The once-merrie-and-Catholic land of Britain – the two adjectives go together like apple pie and ice cream – continues to descend down the dark...

Sheppard Camerata Sacred Music Concert

On this upcoming Sunday, July 29th - the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul - there is a sacred music concert presented by Sheppard...