Everyday For Life Canada: 2022

The Holy Family is the model for the human family

Today, as we celebrate the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we post the mediation of the day from the Magnificat. It's written by Sister Mary Jean who was a Dominican sister, author and illustrator of children's stories.

The Humility of the Holy Family

Mary and Joseph were privileged above all the earth’s peoples in being able to live under the same roof with God Incarnate. They shielded him on the frightening flight into Egypt, guarded him during the exile. They heard his first word, guided his first step, and watched him grow out of babyhood into boyhood and young manhood. With God dwelling in it, the little house at Nazareth was as near to heaven as anything on earth could be. However humble their work, it was sweetened by the joy of doing it for Jesus.

Dec

Exhibtion in Spain reconstructs in 3D the image of the Shroud of Turin

The most recent study on the Shroud of Turin dates it back to the first century. The shroud is believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus. Here's the summary.

A new study overseen by Dr. Liberato de Caro of Italy’s Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council, in Bari has concluded that the Shroud of Turin dates to the first century.

Dec

Every Canadian should watch "Justin Turdeau's Twas the Night Before Christmas"

O Canada!

O Canada! Our home and native land!

True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,

The True North strong and free!

From far and wide, O Canada,

We stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee,

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

"God keep our land glorious and free!" Do watch and share PM "Justin Turdeau's Twas the Night Before Christmas." Every Canadian should see it.

Dec

Reclaim Christian marriage and family

Traditional marriage and family life are under spiritual attack today. Marriage, family and the person have been progressively redefined. Sexual identity has become gender identity. Children are taught in public schools that there are at least six genders. Even the words mother and father are questioned. Biology no longer matters, and feelings and ideas have supplanted reason, truth and facts.

Let's face it. We're now living in a post-modern, anti-Christian culture in the West.

Dec

Moderna to build new production plants in Canada, UK and Australia

If you thought the world push for the covid-19 vaccine was starting to slow, think again. Moderna plans build, with the help of government funds, new plants in Canada, Britain and Australia. This suggests that the experimental mRNA shot will continue to be promoted aggressively, and done with tax dollars. Why else would Moderna and these governments be expanding manufacturing capacity to produce hundreds of millions of doses.

Dec

"Planned Parenthood Honors King Herod With Lifetime Achievement Award"

About a week ago The Babylon Bee posted this story, "Planned Parenthood Honors King Herod With Lifetime Achievement Award." Reader caution: what you're about to read is satirical.

At a special ceremony Thursday, Planned Parenthood posthumously awarded Herod the Great with its highest honor, the organization's coveted PPFA Margaret Sanger Award.Planned Parenthood gives the award out to individuals who advance the pro-abortion agenda, and baby-murdering King Herod was the obvious choice.

Dec

The Nativity Story matters

Today, Christmas Day, we read from the Gospel of Luke 2:15-20,

When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us." And they went with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they saw it they made known the saying which had been told them concerning this child; and all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.

Dec

"La Cantata dei Pastori"

La Cantata dei Pastori, Italian for, The Song of the Shepherds, is a play written by Andrea Perrucci, in 1698, about the Birth of Jesus. It's the Christmas story. It's original title was, Il Vero Lume tra l'Ombre, ossia la Spelonca Arricchita per la Nascita del Verbo Umanato, Italian for, the True Light in the Darkness or the Adorned Stable for the Birth of the Verb Incarnate. Perrucci was an Italian dramatist, Jesuit and writer.

Dec

"The House of Christmas"

The great English writer, philosopher and defender of Christianity G. K. Chesterton wrote the poem "The House of Christmas" about the birth of Baby Jesus. He tries to express the mystery, hope, beauty and wonder of the event that forever changed the world.

Dec

"Ex Ore Infantium"

The English Catholic writer and poet Francis Thompson wrote the poem "Ex Ore Infantium." The Latin title means: Out of the mouths of infants. It's a poem about Baby Jesus. His poem "The Hound of Heaven" was described by the bishop of London as "one of the most tremendous poems ever written," and by critics" and the Times of London predicted that people would be reading the work 200 years later. They were right.