Monday, December 22, 2025

Three Books from a Canadian Author

Up-and-coming author Ben Galeski has written three novels thus far, two of them published by Justin Press, and the third about to be. They...

Te Deum Laudamus!

The Te Deum is an ancient song of praise to God and all His saints, that may go back as far as Saint Ambrose...

Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ

Austin Ruse, Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ. Charlotte: TAN Books, 2017.       With  modern medical breakthroughs, treatments and  medicines,...

So Let it Be Written: A Movie Review of the Ten Commandments

(A recent review of an older film, the Ten Commandments hearkens back to a more golden, and more innocent, era of Hollywood.  Much better...

Musical Offering: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending!

Say what you like about the early Methodists, but they could write some melodious hymns, and one of the greatest and most prolific is...

Bach’s ‘With Joy and Peace I Depart’

In 1725, on this feast of the Presentation/Candlemas/Purification, J.S. Bach first presented his cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin - With Joy...

History, Humanity, and Redemption: A Review of “To Crown With Liberty”

I hope this review might provide a double service to readers. I am excited to promote both a new novel, which provides the core...

The Holy Rosary Through the Visions of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

Compiled and edited by Fr. Mark Higgins Catholic Way Publishing, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-510-9 Paperback CDN$13.08 on Amazon.ca In modern-day Marian apparitions, Our Blessed Mother repeats her urgent message:...

Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus

There are few - some may argue none - who can match Palestrina's composition, and his ars perfecta, in full form here with his motet...

Friedrich Ernst Fesca’s Hidden Treasure

For today's Sunday musical offering, here is the string quartet in C-minor by Friedrich Ernst Fesca (1789 - 1826), who deserves to be much,...