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Today’s readings I think we have to be a little bit careful about how we read and hear today’s readings. We’re still in the Christmas season – at the end of it, actually – and, more precisely, we’re at the … Continued
Today’s readings The feast of Epiphany is a celebration of the fact that Christian life looks like something. Because Jesus has appeared on the earth and taken our own human form, because he has walked among us and lived our … Continued
Today’s readings Perhaps our devotion for this Epiphany week should be to pray the Mysteries of Light on the Rosary. Epiphany is a time of manifestation, of light coming into the dark place that our world can be at times. … Continued
Today we gather to celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord. Epiphany is the traditional “twelfth day of Christmas” and we celebrate it on January 6, or the Sunday nearest that date. Many of our Orthodox brothers and sisters celebrate this … Continued
Mother Seton is a major figure of the Catholic Church in the United States. Her accomplishments contributed greatly to the growth of Catholicism in this country. She founded the first American religious community for women, the Sisters of Charity. She … Continued
The Church gives us this wonderful feast of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, on this, the octave day of Christmas. In a very real way, the Church still celebrates this day as Christmas day – that’s one of the … Continued
Today’s readings So what did you get for Christmas? Was it everything you’d hoped for? Perhaps you, like me, feel that the gifts are nice, but being together with family and friends at Christmas is the real gift. Today’s first … Continued
It’s certainly appropriate that we celebrate the Holy Family today, just a few days after Christmas. This feast helps to underscore that Jesus came to live among us in a very ordinary way: by taking flesh and becoming one of … Continued
Sometimes I wrestle with the question of what is the greatest feast of the Church year. Easter comes to mind, and probably Good Friday, because it is through the events those feasts commemorate that we were saved from our sins … Continued
Amias and Eliana were innkeepers. The had a little place with a few rooms in the town of Bethlehem, just south of Jerusalem. They weren’t really all that well-to-do, because not many people ever came to Bethlehem. They would get … Continued
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