Monthly Archives: December 2013
Cutting a Christmas Tree
"Father Christmas throws out with the same gigantic gesture the prig who can only sneer at the Christmas pudding and the snob who can...
Christmas Cake
Recipe for Christmas Cake, brought over from Ireland to Pontiac County Quebec by Mrs. Ryan some time in the 1800s. Written out by Lola...
The Year of Faith in Nazareth
On Sunday, 17 November, over six thousand pilgrims attended the International Day of Faith in Nazareth, a collaboration of the Israel Ministry of Tourism...
O antiphon, O antiphon..
These last few days before Christmas bring all kinds of crazy out of the woodwork, donāt they? It really is ironic how rude and...
Making a bread oven
A bread oven is simply a dry hollow pile of mud and straw in which a fire is built. When the fire dies down,...
Pope Francis’ Letter to Israel
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...
Easy Essays
Easy Essays
Sheed and Ward, 1936
Looking at property, Fr. Henry Carr, Superior of the Basilians, says:
Socialists and Communists battle againstĀ the unequal conditionsĀ of the poor.
Presumably they...
A closet full of suits
Heāll spend his weekends dressed in ripped jeans and painfully terrible lumberjack shirts. During the weekday evenings heāll exit his suit after work with...
Food for thought
The Incarnation was made present to the world through Mary. On Christmas, Mary placed Our Lord in an animal feed trough, where he was...
A Christmas Carol
Our December artist, Ben Hastings, is the sixth of ten children and was raised in Texas hill country and grew to adulthood in Alaska.Ā He...
