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Living between the first and final comings of Christ

December 7, 2024 Carl E. Olson 1

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 […]

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Winter’s Epiphany: Lessons from the Classroom of Creation

December 15, 2023 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 10

In the debut of this column last month, we examined the ancient Christian conviction that our Lord authored “two books,” which is to say that nature is an epiphany of the divine splendor analogous to […]

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Finding the Christmas good amid the holiday glitz

December 13, 2018 Russell Shaw 3

Deploring the commercialization, secularization, and general thinning-out of the spiritual meaning of Christmas is part of the stock in trade of commentators on things religious of whom your humble servant is one. Nor should we […]

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