Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
“Father Christmas throws out with the same gigantic gesture the prig who can only sneer at the Christmas pudding and the snob who can only snarl at the Christmas waits.” – G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 22 December 1923 Every year we cut a Christmas tree. First, the children go looking for some suitable candidates[…]
Recipe for Christmas Cake, brought over from Ireland to Pontiac County Quebec by Mrs. Ryan some time in the 1800s. Written out by Lola Keon. We are including this in the original handwriting, because handwriting is rare and becoming extinct. Christmas Cake (Fruit) 1 pound butter 1 pound white sugar 2 pounds raisins 2 pounds[…]
On Sunday, 17 November, over six thousand pilgrims attended the International Day of Faith in Nazareth, a collaboration of the Israel Ministry of Tourism and the Italian Bishops’ Conference, to celebrate the close of the Year of Faith. Pope Benedict announced the year on 11 October 2012, the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the[…]
These last few days before Christmas bring all kinds of crazy out of the woodwork, don’t they? It really is ironic how rude and insensitive shoppers can be—ripping the last tchotchke out of others’ hands in order to make some recipient “happy.” But as we enter the home stretch before December 25th, I have been[…]
A bread oven is simply a dry hollow pile of mud and straw in which a fire is built. When the fire dies down, the hot mud bakes whatever is put into it, whether bread, vegetables, or meat. It is a technology that has pre-historic origins and follows a common pattern across continents: the bread[…]
To His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, I send cordial greetings to you, your brother bishops, and all those gathered in Nazareth as you celebrate the close of the Year of Faith in the Holy Land. I assure you of my spiritual closeness and I pray that this celebration will not only witness[…]
Easy Essays Sheed and Ward, 1936 Looking at property, Fr. Henry Carr, Superior of the Basilians, says: Socialists and Communists battle against the unequal conditions of the poor. Presumably they would be satisfied if all were on a level. Do you not see that this does not touch the question that is vital, namely, whether or not the people, no[…]
He’ll spend his weekends dressed in ripped jeans and painfully terrible lumberjack shirts. During the weekday evenings he’ll exit his suit after work with utmost speed in order to lounge around in hideous velour pyjamas. You’ve seen nothing, until you’ve seen a velour-wearing Spaniard. But looking at his bursting closets—yes, plural—you would think my fiancé[…]
The Incarnation was made present to the world through Mary. On Christmas, Mary placed Our Lord in an animal feed trough, where he was seen by the local shepherds. One could not go to the Infant Christ at Bethlehem without Mary’s consent. As a young man, waiting for a sign to begin his public life,[…]
Our December artist, Ben Hastings, is the sixth of ten children and was raised in Texas hill country and grew to adulthood in Alaska. He was baptized Catholic at fourteen and studied the liberal arts and the fine arts in college. He is thirty-three and currently living in North Carolina where he earns a living at[…]
