Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” The famous poetic assertion of Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins aptly summarizes the heart of Ignatian spirituality, an approach to God, prayer […]
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Parents Nurturing Children’s Faith
When my children were small, we used to visit my late in-laws every Sunday afternoon. My husband’s family originally came from France in the mid-seventeenth century, so my in-laws were […]
El Camino
At the heart of our Christian spirituality is the belief that we are a pilgrim people. From birth to death our lives are marked by rites of passage leading us […]
Q & A with the Tataryns
Myroslaw and Maria Tataryn are the authors of our Spring title Discovering Trinity in Disability: A Theology for Embracing Difference. As parents of three daughters, two of whom are labeled […]
Dispelling the Myths of Mary Magdalene
The New Testament accords Mary Magdalene a place of honour, not only locating her by name at the foot of the cross but also identifying her as one of the […]
St. Joseph and the Eucharistic Prayer
Adding Saint Joseph to the other three main Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite is part of a new development in devotion to the husband of the Blessed Virgin. I […]
Praying the Psalms
People often complain to me that the Bible holds little that is relevant to their lives today. The Old Testament in particular, they argue, contains archaic language and images of […]
The Virtue of Doubt
I once thought that doubt was not good for the spiritual life. It was the unhealthy trait of those who did not believe in God. A person of faith, on […]
Prayer for Canada Day
All of us at Novalis wish you and your families a wonderful Canada Day. Let us not forget to pray for the well-being of all women and men living in […]
Seeds of Faith 