For 56 years, Fr Fred Power,S.J. promoted the Canadian Apostleship of Prayer Association and edited its Canadian Messenger magazine for 46 years. He is now Chaplain at the Canadian Jesuits Infirmary at Pickering, Ontario.
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"For the time being at least, it is safe to give God the total credit for all living things,---plants, shrubs ,trees. Insects, ants in their millions, animals on land, in the sea, in the air, and even human beings. "...
Writing is rewarding but it also has its hazards, at least for those who write for publication Perhaps the most discouraging pitfall is the expected response from your audience that never comes....
"Canada 150 & Me" is igNation's celebration of Canada's 150th birthday. Read what our contributors have to say about being Canadian and what it means to them. In today's post, the impact of Bernard Lonergan,SJ....
With the Books of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi (a Jewish tradition says that the Prophetic office died out in Israel with the third book), we come to the last of the Minor Prophets and also to the last, post-exilic period of prophecy....
Zephaniah is best known for introducing the theology of the poor, the 'anawim. He condemns the pride of nations and teaches that salvation is possible only to a remnant – those who are imbued with poverty and lowliness of spirit....
Christ recalled the Book of Jonah, when He referred to the conversion of the Ninevites as an example of repentance. He compared Himself to Jonah spending three days in the belly of the whale for He would spend three days in the tomb....
The Book of Hosea or Osee begins the final section of the Old Testament known as the Minor Prophets. They are minor" only in the sense that the books bearing their names are shorter in length than the preceding ones known as the Major Prophets. . . . The Hebrew Bible arranges the Minor Prophets in historical order . . .The Jerusalem Bible which we have been following uses the same order."...
The Book of Daniel is named after a young Jewish hero who is presented as living in Babylon during most of the sixth century B.C. . . . He is more a literary rather than a historical figure, but at the same time Daniel and his three companions are not purely legendary but rest on an older historical tradition....
Ezekiel (Hebrew for may God strengthen") is the third of the major prophets of the Old Testament. Unlike his older contemporary, Jeremiah, who provides the fullest personal information of all the prophets, . . . His first prophecy is dated 593 B.C. and his last 571 B.C. Thus his prophetic ministry extended over twenty-two years."...
Baruch was more than Jeremiah's secretary, recording faithfully recording faithfully what was dictated to him by the prophet. Baruch shared in the prophetic role and was held in high esteem by later generations....
