The Day After Christmas
The little grey Teddy Bear sat in the back corner of the long shelf, wistfully watching the employees clean up and put away the Christmas decorations. He didn’t really mind that he hadn’t been chosen…
Category: Miscellaneous Nonfiction
Christmas Giggles
By Hannah Skipper Ge nerally speaking, a Christmas Eve church service is a solemn occasion. One should not make a lot of noise or fool around while attending. This story, however, is about the time…
The Islamic Perspective of The Virgin Mary and Jesus the Messiah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon them)
The Holy Personages of the Virgin Mary and Jesus the Messiah are highly revered in Islam, so much so that a heart devoid of belief of them, invalidates the faith of a Muslim. The Holy…
The Box that Held the Songs
The box was probably dated even when my parents bought it. A long, squat black box with slots for cassette tapes, a thin shelf for inserting CDs, dials that were not to be spun, buttons…
Christmas Mishaps
By David Glenn It’s probably pretty cliché to say this, but Christmas is my favorite holiday. I grew up loving the lights and magic this season brings, and the spirit I feel is always…
Can we eat, drink and be merry this Christmas?
A quick google search will reveal that Pope Francis warns us almost every year about the commercialisation of Christmas. This year, for example, he was quoted as saying: “The Christmas tree and Nativity crèche should…
The Real Meaning of Our Christmas Traditions
By Fr. Gerard Hatton When thinking of an English Christmas, there are some quintessential food items that people here cannot live without, such as Brussels sprouts and sauce made out of stale bread (it’s nicer…
The Desire of All Our Race
Two figures embody Advent: one, obvious by his irrepressible presence, the other hidden in her quiet faith. Taken together, they instruct us not only in the true meaning of Advent, but in the real meaning…
Thomism and Its Place in the Catholic Church: A Historical Brief
Introduction It is not easy to define Thomism as an unequivocal school of thought because the various thinkers, who advocated it throughout its 700-year history, never identified themselves as members of a unified movement. Likewise,…
Brother Lawrence and the Fourfold Cure: Reflections on a Carmelite Mystic
~ by Sean Earner “You can not conquer God, nor an angel, nor a philosopher.” — From The Ways of Brother Lawrence by Joseph de Beaufort The coming of Easter is not just the…