Dear, Old South Side Hill
The fondest thoughts of childhood’s day twine ’round thee, dear old hill,
And as I gaze, thy bare, bleak braes with love my bosom thrill;
For...
Ite Ad Joseph: The Archbishop’s Novena
As promised, I have pasted below the novena prayer to Saint Joseph, which the Archbishop of Ottawa, Terence Prendergast, has asked all Catholics in...
Altar Boys
I found an old picture of my father in an attic drawer. It was taken on the occasion of the St. Peter’s Altar Boy...
The Rule of Law
“Why does each small thing in the world have to fight against the world itself? ... So that each thing that obeys law may...
The Rope Swing
Nobody knew where the rope came from. One Sunday morning after Mass in early spring, we found a thick rope hanging from an old...
Albertus Magnus
Saint Albert was called the 'great' even during his lifetime, rumoured to have known everything there was to be known, which may have been...
Teaching kids Latin
Whenever the census in Canada rolls round, I suspect that I am one of the few people who, in the box where one reports...
Laying Heavy Burdens of Carbon
John Robson is right, when he decries the hypocrisy of Prime Minister Trudeau and his entourage of 225 ‘delegates’ to the ‘climate change’ conference...
Freedom
Hence the domestic household is antecedent, as well in idea as in fact, to the gathering of men into a community. - Pope Pius...
An Irish Monk in Scotland
If it 'twere not Pentecost Sunday - the second highest liturgical celebration in the Church's calendar (see Pater Ignotus' reflection), and a blessed one...