Advent & Christmas News
Bishop Finn: Mary Guides Us in our Advent Journey
By • The Catholic Key • 11/16/2011
These Advent Marian commemorations help us prepare for Christ His rightful place as Sovereign Lord, Redeemer, and King. KANSAS CITY-ST.JOSEPH, KS (The Catholic Key) - This past week I had the joy of celebrating our Diocesan Feast Day in the Cathedral. December 8th marks the Solemnity of the ...
Reflection: Love in 'Deed and Truth' - ‘Open the Hands of God’
By • Catholic Online • 11/15/2011
Have you ever considered the significance of the fact that the same Jesus who promised to be with us always also told us that the poor would be with us always? CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - “The poor you will always have with you; but you will not always have me” (Jesus, Matthew 26:11)“And ...
Advent: Pope St. Leo the Great, 'The Mystery of Our Reconciliation with God'
By • Catholic Online • 11/13/2011
The Conqueror’s victory would have profited us nothing if the battle had been fought outside our human condition. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - One of the great gifts that we have,especially as Catholic Christians, is the rich Tradition of the Church. We stand on the shoulders of giants - men ...
Advent Reflection from St Irenaeus: 'Eve and Mary'
By • Catholic Online • 11/12/2011
As Eve was seduced by the word of an angel and so fled from God after disobeying his word, Mary in her turn was given the good news by the word of an angel, and bore God in obedience to his word CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - The great Bishop Irenaeus was educated in Smyrna where he learned ...
Pope: Advent Leads to Life and Love
Zenit News Agency • 11/10/2011
Mary "is the 'way' that God himself prepared for his coming into the world." VATICAN CITY (Zenit) - Advent represents for the Christian an exodus from the world of sin and death to that of life and love, says Benedict XVI. Before praying the Angelus today with those gathered in St. Peter's ...
Immaculate Conception: From the Catholic Catechism
Catholic Online • 11/9/2011
Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, "full of grace" through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. Chesapeake, Va. (Catholic Online) - On this Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Catholic Online presents these texts of explanation and instruction on ...
Pope: On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Asia News • 11/8/2011
This Woman, in the eyes of God, has always had a face and a name: 'full of grace' (Lk. 1:28), as the angel called her when visiting her in Nazareth. VATICAN CITY (AsiaNews) - "In Mary Immaculate, we contemplate the reflection of the Beauty that saves the world: the beauty of God that shines on the ...
Advent: Friendship with Mary
By • Catholic Online • 11/7/2011
Gentle woman, tower of strength, beacon of faith, humble servant...O, highly favored daughter! CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - One of my favorite things about being Catholic (there are many) is enjoying a rich and blessed friendship with Mary. This time of year that friendship is particularly ...
Father Cantalamessa's 1st Advent Sermon
By • Zenit News Agency • 11/7/2011
The Christmas liturgy will speak to us of the "holy exchange," of the "sacrum commercium," between us and God realized in Christ. VATICAN CITY (Zenit) - Here is the Advent homily Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household, delivered in the Vatican in the presence of ...
A Commentary on Isaiah by Eusebius of Caesarea
By • Catholic Online • 11/5/2011
What does it mean to bear the good news but to preach to all nations, but first of all to the cities of Judah, the coming of Christ on earth? CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - The Office of Readings for the Second Sunday of Advent Includes this passage from 4th Century Father of the Church ...
