Happy Feast of St. Patrick
To help you celebrate this feast day, we share with the well-known hymn I Bind Unto Myself Today. St. Patrick, pray for us! [youtube ]
Novalis Seeds of Faith
The Covering of Statues in Passiontide
As our celebration of Christ’s passion, death and resurrection draw closer, we begin to see in many churches the devotional practice of covering statues and images in purple cloth during the final two weeks of Lent, otherwise known as Passiontide.…
Monday Lenten Meditation
The wisdom of Solomon is so obvious and irrefutable once someone has had the clarity and courage to express it. Clarity grows with the spirit of acceptance and the purifying of the mind. We can’t conceptualize this clarity, any more…
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle
During a time in our culture where the Internet has allowed us to become so isolated from the people around us, the story of Luis Antonio Tagle can be particularly refreshing and eye opening to our worldview. Cindy Wooden paints…
Salt and Light TV Interviews Dr. Josephine Lombardi
Acclaimed Novalis author Dr. Josephine Lombardi was recently featured on Perspectives Daily, a program aired on Salt and Light TV, about her newest book Experts in Humanity. Published by Novalis this spring, Experts in Humanity invites us to embark on a spiritual journey that…
The Grateful Disciple
Taking a new and contemporary look at the Catholic faith, The Grateful Disciple is an inspirational book for those wishing to understand how their faith can be incorporated into their everyday lives. David Wells takes the reader along with him,…
The Life of Dorothy Day
Many titles have been used to describe Dorothy Day: activist, journalist, suffragette, and, most recently, candidate for sainthood. But, after reading Patrick Jordan’s biography, nothing describes her better than a statement made by one of her fellow members at the…
Remembering St. Polycarp and the Possibilities of Miracles
St. Polycarp was a leader of the second generation of Christians — that is, those who were not immediate eyewitnesses to the death and resurrection of Jesus. He was known to be a holy man, a person of prayer and…
The Transfiguration of Jesus
Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. (Matthew…
Our Sisters and Brothers, the Refugees
A number of years ago, I spent time in a small rural town in the U.S. state of Nebraska. Like many other cities in the American prairies, the city experienced a large influx of immigrants seeking work on one of the neighbouring…