25 December 2016
25 December 2016 The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Silent Night Years ago I played the cello at the Christmas eve Mass with other musicians ...
24 December 2016
24 December 2016 Saturday of the Fourth Week in Advent Saint Bede, a Doctor of the Church, in his Homily on the Birth of St. John the Baptist, ...
23 December 2016
23 December 2016 Friday of the Fourth Week in Advent The Shawshank Redemption is the 1994 movie based on Stephen King’s novella. It tells a ...
22 December 2016
22 December 2016 Thursday of the Fourth Week in Advent In St. Ambrose’s commentaries on the Magnificat says: “In the heart of each one may Mary ...
21 December 2016
21 December 2016 Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Advent In the summer of 1921, while vacationing at her friend’s estate, Edith Stein picked up ...
20 December 2016
20 December 2016 Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Advent Denise Levertov’s poem “Annunciation” is a moving meditation on Mary’s submission to the ...
19 December 2016
19 December 2016 Monday of the Fourth Week in Advent The readings for today from the Book of Judges and the Gospel of Luke do not give many ...
18 December 2016
18 December 2016 Fourth Sunday of Advent In the preface to An Anthology of George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis said that fatherhood must be at the ...
17 December 2016
17 December 2016 Saturday of the Third Week in Advent When I was growing up, I used to love lists like we see in today’s Gospel. Genealogies, ...
16 December 2016
16 December 2016 Friday of the Third Week in Advent There is a lot of light in the world, and much goodness. If all we do is think of how the ...