SPECIAL COLLABORATION
SAINT ANDRÉ BESSETTE (1845-1937)
The Frail Old Man Who So Loved St. Joseph by Fr. Samuel Baillargeon, C.Ss.R
André was born on Grand-Bois rang in Saint-Gregoire d'Iberville on August 9, 1845. On February 25, 1855, when he was only nine years old, his father had an accident in a forest that caused his death. On November 20, 1857, his mother died of tuberculosis. His maternal aunt, Rosalie-Foisy-Nadeau, lodged the 12 year old orphan in St. Césaire, from 1857 to 1860. (...)

Spiritual Meditations
The Rosary by Paul Kokoski
The Holy Rosary is a devotional prayer of the Catholic Church which is both mental and vocal, and which honors the Blessed Virgin Mary. It consists of fifteen decades of Aves, each decade being preceded by a Pater and followed by a Gloria, recited on beads. A different mystery is contemplated during the recital of each decade. These are the fifteen joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries of the life of Christ and His Blessed Mother. Recently, Pope John Paul II added five new mysteries - the Mysteries of Light. The Rosary begins with the recitation of the Apostles' Creed (on the crucifix), one Our Father and three Hail Marys. (...)

SPECIAL COLLABORATION
The Medicine of Immortality by David W. T. Brattston
A prominent Canadian politician was recently alleged to have received a Communion wafer at a Roman Catholic Mass, to have put it into his pocket and returned to his pew - to the horror of parishioners and media alike. Presumably he was a Calvinist, because the liturgical churches (Eastern Orthodox, Armenians, Ethiopians, Anglicans, Lutheran, and both Byzantine and Latin rite Catholics) hold the Eucharist in great reverence and maintain strict regulations as to how Communion elements are to be treated and to whom they may be distributed, if only to prevent disrespectful handling. These regulations are not modern inventions nor did they originate with superstitious monks in the Dark Ages. The present article looks at Christian regard for the Eucharist before AD 250 to show how the earliest believers shared the same practices as liturgical denominations today. The ancient writings are the common heritage of all Christians because they date from before the division into present-day denominations, even before the division separating Armenians and Ethiopians from the rest of Christendom in AD 451. (...)

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