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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When I was approaching my 60th birthday a couple of years ago, I decided to have two words from my favorite psalm tattooed on my left arm. “Be still,” it says, ...
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 ...
The Advent season — with its message to “Be watchful! Be alert!” — felt uncomfortably timely for me this year. Coming off a recent health scare, I have been all ...
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 ...
Join us for an online Advent evening retreat focused on the beauty and joy that can be found in the unfolding of this liturgical season. Through the Scriptures ...
"The Advent season invites us to put the world’s ways aside and sink into the slow goodness of a spiritual season be-decked not in tinsel and bows but in ...
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 ...
Manic Monday makes a rare reappearance! It's certainly not because I have so much time on my hands because I am busier than ever, but the good kind of busy. ...
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 ...
A very brief invitation to my Seattle Advent retreat. My first time in the Pacific Northwest. I loved it, and I found a spiritual vibe everywhere — at Pike ...
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 ...
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 ...