Weekly Insight
Tonight! Anastasia – the Musical!
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is presenting Anastasia, a musical with a plethora of song and dance - a thoroughly enjoyable evening or afternoon for young and old and everyone in-between!
Witness the story...
The Joyful Japanese Martyrs of Nagasaki
Today is the feast of Saint Paul Miki and Companion martyrs, put to death by crucifixion and impaling on February 5, 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan, amongst the hundreds, if not thousands, who witnessed for...
Paul Miki and Companion Martyrs of Japan
Today, 6 February, is the feast of Saint Paul Miki and his (twenty-five) companions who were tortured and executed in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1597. “After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not...
Saint Agatha, the Good and Noble Martyr
Saint Agatha (+251) is counted amongst the most venerated of the 'virgin martyrs', one of the seven women whose name appears in the Canon of the Mass.
Having made a vow of virginity, Agatha, under...
Saints Blaise and Ansgar
Saint Blaise, a bishop of ancient Sebastea (now in Turkey), was also a physician, like Saint Luke, a healer of body and soul. And, we may add, a martyr, tortured to death for the...
Musical Offering: Bach’s Cantata for the Purification of Mary
J.S. Bach was a devout Lutheran, and, unlike some of the Protestant sects, had a great devotion to Our Lady. In 1725, on this February 2nd, the Feast of her Purification, when we also...
Pope Saint John Paul and the Presentation
(A blessed feast to all our readers! In 1997 Pope Saint John Paul II declared this ancient feast of the Presentation - also known as Candlemas - as the World Day for Consecrated Life,...
Cody Lambert, a ’90s Sitcom Hero, and the Catholic Moral Imagination
Over the past few months, I have found myself scrolling through Facebook Reels that surface fragments of 1990s television, shows like Step by Step, Saved by the Bell, and Beverly Hills, 90210, programs that...
Saint Bridget of Ireland
Saint Bridget of Kildare (451 – 525), who lived a century after Saint Patrick (385 – 461), and a century before Saint Columbanus (543 – 615) shares with them the triumvirate patronage of Ireland....
The Charism of Saint John Bosco
The term 'charismatic' has an ambiguous meaning in the Church, invoking images of liturgical guitars, drums, emotional crescendos, and disconcerting glossolalia. In the Church's theology, however, it has a rather specific meaning, derived from...
Don Bosco, Still Teaching in the Hallway
On joy, presence, young love, and the quiet holiness of Catholic education
There’s a particular kind of sound you only hear in a school: a quick burst of laughter that tries to hide itself, the...
Can the Legionaries Truly Be Reformed?
The Legionaries of Christ are currently gathered for their General Chapter, held every six years. This is in accord with the principle of semper reformanda. Every society, especially those in the Church, and even...
Thomas’ Pange Lingua
Saint Thomas Aquinas spent some time in the early 1260's in the beautiful Italian city of Orvieto, perched way high up on a promontory, about an hour outside Rome. When I visited there years ago,...
Entropic AI
Entropy may be described as the tendency of all things degrade, to move from order to disorder, from cosmos to chaos, from specificity to entropy. It is the inevitable consequence of any closed system,...
Thomas Aquinas: The Universal and Angelic Doctor
(Last year marked the 800th anniversary of the birth of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who came into this world on this January 28th, 1225. The great saint and doctor died in 1274, and was canonized...
