21 December 2013
21 December 2013 Saturday of the Third Week of Advent Mary’s mission, her vocation, described in yesterday’s reading, calls for broadcasting to ...
20 December 2013
20 December 2013 Friday of the Third Week of Advent The Annunciation is the Advent event. The Virgin Mary, better than anyone else, can help us ...
19 December 2013
19 December 2013 Thursday of the Third Week of Advent Samson, whose birth was announced in the 1st reading, is one more link in the chain to ...
18 December 2013
18 December 2013 Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent In the first reading today Jeremiah describes in a most cryptic manner what the promised ...
17 December 2013
17 December 2013 Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent We have in the readings today a brief summary of God’s plan for his people throughout ...
16 December 2013
16 December 2013 Monday of the Third Week of Advent The first reading today is bizarre at best. It reports the account of Balaam, a pagan ...
15 December 2013
15 December 2013 Third Sunday of Advent “Hang in there, Baby!” That was the message printed under a picture of a cat on a poster that once ...
14 December 2013
14 December 2013 Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church. Today the Church celebrates the feast of “The Mystical ...
13 December 2013
13 December 2013 Memorial of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr Mt. 11:16-19 “You can’t win.” How often we hear that expression of frustration, when ...
12 December 2013
12 December 2013 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Recently I was able to travel to Mexico on a personal pilgrimage. The level of civilization of ...