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In No Strange Land (A Review)
For some time now, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of the Oratory. I’d heard the word pop up in various readings about the lives of the Saints, such as John Bosco, John Henry Newman, and Frère André Bessette. It was only when I visited the Toronto Oratory that my curiosity was piqued, and I…
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The Four Last Things: Judgement
Advent is not simply only a time to reflect on the birth of Our Lord, the Word made Flesh, but also a time to reflect on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell. Over these four weeks of Advent, join me as I follow along with meditations of St Francis de Sales, as…
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Good Reason (III)
Continued from The Ouroboros & Philosophy (I) & Reason Enough (II) What good reasons did I have for accepting Christianity in the first place? Of course, I have more than one reason, but I’ll start with this: Christianity is the faith of many martyrs. A Faith of Martyrs What initially piqued my interest in Christianity was…
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The Four Last Things: Death
Advent, as I alluded to earlier this week, is not simply a time for celebrating the mystery of Christ’s first coming in the Incarnation. It is also a time to reflect on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell. As luck would have it, one of my favourite saints, St Francis de Sales,…
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It’s beginning to look a lot like… Advent!
Today marks the first Sunday of the liturgical year: that is, the first Sunday of the season of Advent. Over the last month, we have heard countless readings from the book as Revelation. This is more than mere coincidence. The Latin word for “Advent” (adventus) means “coming”, so as we prepare the celebrate the first…
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Faith of Our Fathers (A Review)
I’ve always been proud of my English heritage. So much so that when I began to consider converting to Catholicism, I felt uneasy. After all, English history this past half of a millennium has been littered with anti-Catholicism. To be Catholic, I felt, is to be very un-English. Moreover, many well-revered “heroes” of English history…
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“To every thing there is a season”
Yesterday I attended the Archdiocese of Toronto’s 2022 Renew conference for young adults. This was my first experience with one of these catholic young adult conferences, and I was not disappointed. My day was filled by great encounters and listening to insightful speakers. I had a wonderful time!(On top of everything else, I also got…
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Dulce et Decorum Est Mori
As we come to the end of Allhallowtide, I’ve found the opportunity to reflect on why the Saints are important. The Saints are more than just good people: their sense of mission coupled with their holy mode of living ought to serve us as a source of inspiration. Of course, Jesus Christ is the moral…
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The Church’s Greatest Secret?
For the first time, today I attended the Catholic Mass of St Thomas More Parish in Toronto, which is part of the “Anglican Patrimony within the Communion of the Catholic Church” (as it says on their website). The Anglican Ordinariate, as it’s commonly called, was established by Pope Benedict XVI in the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum…
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