Month: November 2024

The season of Advent arrives this year to remind us, as it always has, that the coming celebration of the Nativity of Christ Jesus (Christmas) is mainly about reaching out to those in need, as poor as that Child in …

Cada Adviento es una oportunidad para revisar la propia vida. Es un tiempo de esperanza, un recorrido espiritual, interior, para vivir con intensidad la presencia de Dios en medio de nosotros … y eso es la Navidad.

El Adviento nos …

Seguimos viviendo en un mundo que produce una gran incertidumbre respecto al futuro. La vida está en continuo movimiento, todo está cambiando, nada es estático. Nos acostumbramos fácilmente a la comodidad, pero cuando más seguros nos sentimos de que nada …

Happy New Year! The First Sunday of Advent brings us the beginning of a new Liturgical Year. And part of the process of beginning a new Liturgical Year is a reflection on time: the relationship between the past, the …

St. Andrew was the brother of St. Peter. They seem to have come from Bethsaida, although at the beginning of Jesus’ public life they were in Capernaum, plying their trade as fishermen. From St. John’s Gospel (1, 40), we …

We live in a world of change, sometimes rapid and bewildering change. We see changes in society, changes in the Church, and miracles and menaces of digital wizardry! Many people find such change disconcerting and unsettling. Therefore, most of us …

For centuries, holy men and women have praised God in thanksgiving, as is evidenced throughout the Bible and the writings of the Saints. St. Ambrose, for example, wrote, “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”

These days,…

The days leading up to (and following) Thanksgiving are among the busiest travel days of the year. When we travel, we almost always know our destination and we know, more or less, how much time we need to get there. …

Next Sunday will mark the beginning of a new Liturgical Year. That day, the First Sunday of Advent, will launch the new Year and it will be filled with words and images of new beginnings, a fresh start, and “a …

The Church honors Saint Catherine of Alexandria with a feastday today. She was martyred around 305 in Alexandria, Egypt. Alexandria, in her time, was one of the finest cities in the world and a center of learning and culture – …