I was recently in Calgary attending a launch for one of our newest titles, Small Things: Reflections on Faith and Hope. It was held at St. Mary’s University, one of Catholic Canada’s best-kept secrets. The author, university President Gerry Turcotte,…
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception holds special meaning for all of us here at Novalis. It was on this feast day, Dec. 8, 1935, at a Catholic Action congress in Ottawa that Fr. André Guay proposed to create what…
December 8th is a special day for us at Novalis. Aside from being the traditional feast day of the Immaculate Conception, it is the very day that our founder, Fr. André Guay, began what would become Novalis. His dedication to…
Every Fall we have the great fortune of participating in When Faith Meets Pedagogy, a conference for Catholic teachers from across Ontario. The conference offers us the opportunity to meet with leading religious educators and discuss the many ways we…
The Novalis offices have been rather quiet the past few days. This is not to suggest, however, that little is being done. Instead, all of us on staff are hard at work preparing for the fall season and several are…
We launch this blog today, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, because it reminds us of a particular moment in time. For it was on this day, back in 1935, that the seeds of Novalis were sown.