Readings: • Is 62:1-5 • Ps 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 9-10 • 1 Cor 12:4-11 • Jn 2:1-11 Saint John’s account of the wedding in Cana is unique to his Gospel; it is also the first […]
Readings: • Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 40:1-5, 9-11 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-28, 29-30 • Acts 10:34-38 or Or Ti 2:11-14; 3:4-7 • Lk 3:15-16, 21-22 If […]
Readings: • Isa 60:1-6 • Psa 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13 • Eph 3:2-3A, 5-6 • Mt 2:1-12 Pope Paul VI, in the Apostolic Exhortation, “Marialis Cultus” (Feb. 1974), emphasized that the “Christmas season is a […]
Readings: Nm 6:22-27 Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 Gal 4:4-7 Lk 2:16-21 “If anyone believes that holy Mary is not the mother of God (Theotokos), he has no share in the divine inheritance”, wrote the […]
Readings: • Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 • Psa 128:1-2, 3, 4-5. • Col 3:12-21 or 3:12-17, or 1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24 • Lk 2:41-52 What is a “family”? A few decades ago, most Americans would have […]
Readings: • Mi 5:1-4a • Heb 10:5-10 • Lk 1:39-45 “One of the most beautiful moments in history” wrote Abp. Fulton Sheen in The World’s First Love, his wonderful book on the Virgin Mary, “was […]
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where—” said Alice. […]
Readings: • Zeph 3:14-18a • Isa 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 • Phil 4:4-7 • Lk 3:10-18 A few years ago, I was in the car with my daughter the day after Thanksgiving, She began searching the […]
Readings: • Bar 5:1-9 • Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 • Phil 1:4-6, 8-11 • Lk 3:1-6 “There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know,” wrote St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the […]
Readings: • Jer 33:14-16 • Ps 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 • 1 Thes 3:12-4:2 • Lk 21:25-28, 34-36 “We preach not one advent only of Christ,” wrote St. Cyril of Jerusalem in the fourth century, […]
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