We're only a few days into Advent, and most of us have been bombarded by so much Christmas music and Christmas advertising and Christmas everything that we're ...
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Advent
A Christmas poem written by Madeleine L'Engle in 1973 but sounding incredibly timely for all of us living in a troubled world today:
This is no time for a ...
We are approaching the mid-point of Advent, which, of course, includes the lighting of the rose-colored candle in our Advent wreath. It’s not just a pretty ...
My Catholic News Service column for the Second Sunday of Advent. (The image is me offering an expanded version of this message as a reflection at Mass during ...
For the longest time, I considered myself more of a Lent person than an Advent person. The journey through the desert felt familiar, the three-prong practice of ...
'Tis the season to decorate, shop, wrap, bake... Nope! This season of Advent is made for just the opposite: waiting, anticipating, resting, praying. It's a ...
Advent in our modern world has long been behind the cultural eight ball. It’s a season of waiting in a world of instant gratification, a season of quiet ...
My newest book of spiritual reflections is now available from Liturgical Press. It's never too early to start planning for Christmas, right? You can get Daily ...
Lighting the Advent wreath each night for prayers before dinner has long been my family’s tradition. The flickering candlelight growing brighter with each ...
If you've been a reader of this blog since the early days, you know my family has had some Advent struggles over the years. There was the time we needed to ...
Excerpted from Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
‘Tis the season to pack on a few pounds.
Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s ...
The shoes were placed by the front door with care last night. Okay, to be honest, the almost-18-year-old just left them there out of habit, but the two girls ...
Earlier this week another Catholic blogger decided to do a line-by-line dissection of the popular Christmas song "Mary, Did you Know?" Nothing he said was new ...
Don't let the frenzy of the season rob you of the chance to wait in wonder this Advent. Here's my OSV Newsweekly story from last Advent to get you in the ...
I love Advent and Christmas. Really I do. I wear a Santa hat, light the Advent wreath, deck the halls, and drink eggnog like it's going out of style, but ...
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As we move through the O Antiphons this week, I thought I'd let Amy Grant do the talking for me, at least for today, with this ...
Okay, here’s the question of the day: Is the Christmas stocking important or irrelevant? This debate rages at our house each Christmas season. For me, the ...
I spent the past two days at my grandmother's bedside, watching her die. We don't know how long she has -- minutes, hours, days, weeks? For anyone who's been ...
The shoes were placed by the front door with care last night. Okay, to be honest, the almost-17-year-old just left them there out of habit, but the two girls ...
A lot of my friends and family members are already wrapping Christmas gifts, which I find truly astounding because I haven't even started shopping. Haven't ...