Advent & Christmas News
The mystery of our reconciliation with God
By • Catholic Online • 12/5/2011
The divine nature and the nature of a servant were to be united in one person so that the Creator of time might be born in time. To speak of our Lord, the son of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as true and perfect man is of no value to us if we do not believe that he is descended from the line of ...
The Happy Priest: John the Baptist Shows Us How to be a Witness
By • Catholic Online • 12/4/2011
John the Baptist commands our interest because he is a witness. By his witness, he reminds us that we are called to be witnesses. And in any age, to be a witness is challenging.We must witness that what we have found in Christ Jesus is true, real and worth living out to the ultimate ...
Let the word of the Lord come to us
By • Catholic Online • 12/4/2011
The first coming was in flesh and weakness, the middle coming is in spirit and power, and the final coming will be in glory and majesty. WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - We know that the coming of the Lord is threefold: the third coming is between the other two and it is not visible in the way they ...
Advent Reflection: Children are Promise Carriers
By • Catholic Online • 12/4/2011
In my most desperate times my three year old has been known to hold my face in his miniature hands and tell me 'You’re my pleasure'. BETHPAGE, TN (Catholic Online) - “Before God, who is eternal, you are much more a child than, before you, the tiniest toddler. And besides being a child, you are a ...
St. Charles Borromeo: On the Meaning of Advent
By • Catholic Online • 12/4/2011
When we remove all obstacles to his presence he will come, at any hour and moment, to dwell spiritually in our hearts, bringing with him the riches of his grace. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - This reflection is taken from the Office of readings for the first week of Advent. It is an excerpt ...
Pope: Christ Child Calls for end to Suffering for Children
Vatican Information Service • 12/2/2011
The glory of the true God becomes visible when the eyes of our hearts are opened before the stable of Bethlehem. VATICAN CITY (VIS) - The Pope celebrated Midnight Mass tonight in the Vatican Basilica on the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord. "God stoops down", the Pope said in his homily. ...
The Birth of Mercy: Being Post Abortive in the Advent and Christmas Seasons
By • Catholic Online • 12/1/2011
I can still remember it as if it were yesterday, making Christmas stockings for my nieces and nephews the Christmas immediately following my abortion. That was over 40 years ago, yet I remember those stockings vividly; the materials, the graphics, the pain of sewing them together as I thought of my ...
Pope Benedict: 'You Can No Longer Fear Me, You Can Only Love Me'
By • Vatican Information Service • 12/1/2011
Yes, Lord, help us to see something of the splendour of your glory. And grant peace on earth. Make us men and women of your peace. Amen. ROME (Vatican Information Service) - Here below, is the full-text English translation of Benedict XVI's homily from Midnight Mass in St Peter's: Dear ...
Pope St. Leo the Great: 'Christian, remember your dignity'
By • Catholic Online • 12/1/2011
Dearly beloved, today our Saviour is born; let us rejoice. Sadness should have no place on the birthday of life. The fear of death has been swallowed up; life brings us joy with the promise of eternal happiness. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - On this Feast of the Nativity of the Lord, Catholic ...
Why Celebrate Advent?
By • Catholic Online • 11/30/2011
"We know that there are three comings of the Lord. The third lies between the other two. It is invisible while the other two are visible. In the first coming He was seen on earth, dwelling among men; … in the final coming "all flesh will see the salvation of our God and they will look upon Him whom ...
