by Nik on 30 December, 2019
Fr. Prosper Gueranger is the eminent priest who was the leader of the original Liturgical Movement, before it was hijacked by the Modernists. Pope St. Pius X himself highly recommended the work of Fr. Gueranger in his endeavor to “restore all things in Christ.” St. Pius X saw the work of Fr. Gueranger as an […]
by Nik on 28 December, 2019
The famous Bishop Richard Challoner, in 1807, gives his instructions and commentary on today’s Feast of the Holy Innocents. The eminent Bishop is renowned today among true Catholics to be a tremendously edifying source of both instruction and material to be used for pious recollection and prayerful meditation. Being that this world has returned to […]
by Nik on 24 December, 2019
On this Christmas Eve and last day of Advent, it would be good to take some time to reflect on a few things surrounding the Birth of Our Lord. Each time we pray the third Joyful Mystery of Our Lady’s Holy Rosary, there is much that we could and should meditate on, yet we easily […]
by Nik on 21 December, 2019
Taken from Lives of the Saints, With a Practical Instruction on the Life of Each Saint by Father Francis Xavier Weninger, 1876 St. Thomas was a fisherman, born in Galilee. The divine Saviour received him among His Apostles, to announce His Gospel to the world, and to convert mankind. From the time that he was […]
by Nik on 20 December, 2019
On November 9, 1846, Pope Pius IX set the tone of what would be a glorious pontificate of nearly 32 years with his encyclical Qui Pluribus (On Faith and Religion). Pius IX has gone down in history as one of the most important pontiffs the Church has ever had, given to the world by the […]
by Nik on 18 December, 2019
This sermon by Fr. Francis Cuthbert Doyle OSB, while originally given to children in 1896, is just as important and applicable to all Catholics, children and adults, today. December 18 marks the Feast of The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an important feast day in anticipation of the Birth of Christ one week later. […]
by Nik on 26 November, 2014
This post is part of a series of posts dedicated to revealing and explaining the 8 strategic components of a learning system that yields continuous progress with minimal effort. Linguistic research frequently makes use of large databases of frequency data among words in a language. These databases organize and compile words as functions of frequencies of being used together […]
by Nik on 24 November, 2014
This post is part of a series of posts dedicated to revealing and explaining the 8 strategic components of a learning system that yields continuous progress with minimal effort. Grammar. The part of language learning that everybody dreads. Is it really as big of a deal as everyone makes it out to be, though? When you first start learning a […]
by Nik on 22 November, 2014
This post marks the first of a series of posts dedicated to revealing and explaining the 8 strategic components of a learning system that yields continuous progress with minimal effort. Language learning is one of those subjects that elicits heated debate, both among learners and teachers. Unfortunately, all this debate ends up detracting from the original purpose of […]
by Nik on 17 May, 2013
This topic is one that I find to be of the utmost importance, simply due to the fact that its widespread prevalence throughout society leads to such a large amount of people either relinquishing their language learning goals or feeling as if their progress is going nowhere fast. The widely accepted “correct” way to learn […]