On the Second Sunday of Easter, alternatively termed Divine Mercy Sunday since the canonization of Saint Faustina in 2000 by Pope Saint John Paul II, the current Holy Father Pope Francis issued Misericordiae Vultus, decreeing 2016 to be a year dedicated to the theme of ‘Mercy’. God’s mercy is a hot topic amongst theological […]
Christus Resurrexit! Dominus surrexit vere! Alleluia! So goeth the customary greeting between Christians in this Easter season. We are in the middle of the Octave of Easter, which really is a week of Sundays, every day a solemnity, with full liturgical pomp, joy and splendour. And, yes feasting after the fasting of Lent. […]
In one of those curious mysteries of providence, two tragic events in the past two weeks killed about the same number of people. Both were mass murders, the first at least strongly suspected of being so: The deliberate downing of the Germanwings Flight 9525 , wherein a depressed and suicidal co-pilot locked himself in, and […]
As we begin the most solemn time of year we call Holy Week, leading up to the great Triduum, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, bringing us to the high point of the liturgical year at Easter, we should reflect more intensely on the humanity of Christ and His suffering, through which He gained […]
Today, Thursday, March 25th, the solemnity of the Annunciation, marks the twentieth anniversary of Saint John Paul II’s promulgation of Evangelium Vitae, his powerful and foundational encyclical on the dignity of human life. As with his other writings, the Pontiff chose the day wisely, on which we celebrate the conception of Christ in the womb […]
Each year, we here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom take a late-winter pilgrimage on March 16th to Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland. (This year, we went on Saturday, the 14th, due to scheduling, but back on track for next year!) Of course, the shrine itself is closed, and usually blanketed in deep, wet snow. […]
I met an acquaintance recently, and he asked to write a brief blurb for him on what was wrong with the modern university, and why we were trying to start a new, but actually old, kind of ‘university’ here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom. I thought, well, there are different ways one could describe […]
I think we can all agree that house prices in Canada are out of control, at least in any places where one might still find a job: Consider these numbers in urban areas around the country: To use the two most egregious examples, in Toronto the average price of a detached, single home is now […]
As a follow up to my column on the universal money pit that is the modern university, it turns out, as the National Post reported last Friday, now that the federal government has foisted $295 million in defaulted students loans onto the taxpayer (yes, you and me). That is on top of the $ 837 […]
Corruptio optimi pessima, the corruption of the best is the worst, a Latin aphorism that has been adopted into Catholic theology, is a pithy, three word description of the effect of the metaphysical basis of evil: Evil, as a privation of good, must always exist in good. As something ‘good that is missing but that […]