Getting Ready for Advent
Advent is just around the corner, and it’s time to seize the moment in order to make the most of this beautiful season the Church gives us to prepare for the coming of Christ at Christmas. I thought...
View ArticleAdvent and the Year of Faith
Happy New Year!!! I don’t know about you, but no one howled that cry at the stroke of midnight on Saturday night in my neck of the woods. But, indeed that’s where we find ourselves: at the beginning...
View ArticleDoing the will of the Father
Today’s gospel from Matthew begins: Jesus said to his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven....
View ArticleIsaiah meets Handel during Advent
Today’s Old Testament reading should fill your heart with song! It does mine, and it lifts me to heaven. Why? In 1742, Georg Friedrich Händel, one of the best know composers of the baroque period,...
View ArticleRe-energize your Advent
Today, on Thursday of the second week of Advent, we find ourselves less than two weeks from the celebration of the Feast of Christmas. So it seems like a good time to ask: How’s your Advent going? If...
View ArticleEmmanuel, God is with us!
As we approach the Solemnity of Christmas, in these days of the “O Antiphons”, the scriptures point more and more directly to the coming of Jesus as the Messiah. Today’s Old Testament reading from...
View ArticleThe Visitation
Today’s gospel reading from Luke is familiar to us all: The Visitation. After making her fiat and giving her consent to bear the Son of God, Mary “goes in haste” to visit her cousin, Elizabeth, whom...
View ArticleMystery
Don’t you just love the seasons of the Liturgical Year?! It feels like we continually get chances to start all over again with each new season. For me, as brief as Advent has been so far, I...
View ArticleBless the Lord, O My Soul!
Many, many times when I get stuck in the muck, I recall to mind today’s psalm, Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his...
View ArticleMusic for the week before Christmas
I love music, and I always have a song in my heart & in my head. Of course, this time of year, it’s hard to go anywhere and not hear Christmas carols, but the music that fills my heart this time...
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