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 ...
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At this point in the season, we’re past our Lenten promises — many of them unfulfilled — and wondering if we’ve allowed ourselves to be changed at all 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 ...
I first got to know Sister Johanne McCarthy, C.S.J., about 18 months ago when she wrote to complain that our Albany diocesan newspaper wasn’t giving ...
I was driving to Rochester last week to give a talk to the local chapter of Magnificat, and I decided to make the trip into a mini-retreat of sorts. I brought ...
I am not a patient person. Not by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I consider myself to be one of the most impatient people I know. If I start an ...