In the opening of his Letter to the Ephesians, St Paul describes the drama that is being played out between the Persons of the Trinity and the whole of creation. First of all, St Paul explains, the Father has blessed us, by revealing to us the mystery of His will....
Among my heroes is a Chinese statesman of the eleventh century. Gentle reader may not immediately guess that this would be the famed, or infamed, Wang An-shih, whose reputation is sullied when viewed through the eyes of his chief contemporary political opponents, especially those of the statesman, Si Dong-po, and...
It is the day of the year when I request a special Ave of gentle reader, because it is the anniversary of my own reception into Holy Church — in the chapel of the Fathers of the Toronto Oratory, here in Parkdale where I still live, purposely to be in...
Consider, if thou wilt, gentle reader, Engelonde, in the century of Chaucer, which was also the century of Richard Rolle, Walter Hinton, and Julian of Norwich. (The 14th.) There are two kinds of ignorance, superficially opposite, but closely related. In the first, more commonly recognized, we pretend to know something that...
“I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” St Paul is describing a transition from present suffering to future glory. But he is not speaking only of human suffering and human glory; he is speaking...