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
Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol was first published on this December 19 back in 1843, and it has been a much beloved classic ever since. It is really is an Advent story, as are most Christmas stories, and songs, as Stephen White recently wrote. Just as most marriage films are really ‘engagement’ films –[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 20 December 2006 The meaning of Christmas Dear Brothers and Sisters, “The Lord is close: come, let us adore him”. With this invocation, the liturgy invites us in these last days of Advent to approach as it were on tip-toe the Bethlehem Grotto where the extraordinary event that[…]
On this Eve of Christmas Eve, we celebrate in a subdued manner the commemoration of John of Cantius (1390 – 1473), or ‘Kanty’ in the original Polish transliteration – a scholar, teacher, gentleman, priest and, most of all, a saint, who spent his whole life as a professor at the Krakow Academy, later named the[…]
