Practical Tips for Making Advent a Part of Life?
Here. Not heavy theology. But good tips toward making these next weeks more than stressing about Christmas gifts and arrangements.
View ArticleDo You Want to Save Christmas?
Then live Advent. “Advent is a discipline: a way of forming anticipation and channeling it toward its goal,” Joseph Bottum writes in his beautiful new book, The Christmas Plains. “Nothing we do can...
View ArticleOur Choices Have Eternal Consequences
From a recent diocesan paper column: Just as much as Jesus discoursed on the beauty of Heaven, he spoke about the reality of hell. He compared hell to a blazing furnace, an unquenchable fire, a worm...
View ArticleDo We Bring Peace to the World?
This morning in Rome, Pope Benedict prays with us all for the families who lost children on Friday in that horrifying school shooting in Connecticut: I was deeply saddened by Friday’s senseless...
View ArticleDeep Longing, Sure Hope
In his new book on The Feasts of the Church and how they form us as Catholics, Washington, D.C.’s Cardinal Donald Wuerl writes with Mike Aquilina about Advent: In Advent the Church prepares to receive...
View ArticleGeorge Washington, the Blessed Mother, and #Advent
As we begin the season of Advent, Fr. Peter John Cameron writes in The Magnificat Advent Companion about what we are called to enter in to: If you visit George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in...
View ArticleGetting into the Advent Spirit
Fr. Robert Barron popped into my inbox this morning (I subscribed to this daily Advent reflections! you can, too) with more to say about longing: I’ve always sensed that the Advent attitudes of...
View ArticleWhy Advent?
Saint Charles Borromeo explains (hat tip, as we say, to ibreviary.com): Beloved, now is the acceptable time spoken of by the Spirit, the day of salvation, peace and reconciliation: the great season of...
View ArticleChrist, the New Temple
In the Gospel Sunday, Jesus meets John the Baptist. Fr. Robert Barron of Word on Fire fame writes about it in the monthly Magnificat magazine this month: All four of the Gospels compel us to approach...
View Article10 Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (Dec. 23, 2015)
1. We live in a world weighed down by unbelief: Lord, increase our faith. Lord Jesus, help us to believe that you are coming. #lauds — Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) December 23, 2015 2. Today’s Mass...
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