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 ...
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'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 ...
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 ...
"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came to be through him,
and ...
Every year, St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Delmar (like so many other area churches, Catholic and not) sponsors a Giving Tree. At the start of Advent, the ...
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 ...
So it occurred to me, as I scrolled through old photos looking for something to feature on Throwback Thursday this week, that the pajamas I was wearing on ...
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 ...
If any of you were around these parts last year, you may remember that we started our Advent season not with a prayer but with a coin toss. Because that's how ...