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The Happy Priest on Living the Christmas Gift

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God is love.  He calls us to be a gift for one another.  How absurd it is to waste our lives by not being a gift for others. Each ... continue reading


Feast of the Holy Family: The Christian Family is a Domestic Church

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We actually live in Church. We were baptized into the Lord and we now live in His Body. The Christian family IS a church, the smallest and ... continue reading



Pope Benedict XVI: May the Child Jesus Not Find us Unprepared

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In the night of the world, we must let ourselves be amazed and illumined by this act of God, which is totally unexpected: God becomes a ... continue reading


Advent Reflection: Children are Christmas Promise Carriers

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The Christmas Jesus teaches us about the inherent gift of children, full of promise, full of anticipation. Children simply love. Their ... continue reading


Advent Reflection: Holy Mother, Holy Child, Born of Each Other

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An ordinary day had suddenly become the most miraculous day in human history. The God she loves above all else has called her name; called ... continue reading


A Christmas Poem: Dream of Me

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Jennifer Hartline offers a poem reflecting on the beauty and the mystery of the Christ Child in the arms of ... continue reading



Advent: Season Of Preparation, Repentance, Penance And Renewal

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"It is one's whole existence that becomes penitential, that is to say, directed toward a continuous striving for what is better. But doing ... continue reading


3rd Joyful Mystery: The Birth of Christ

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In our world, material poverty means to be vulnerable, shunned, and perhaps worst of all, invisible.  Poverty is empty and deprived. ... continue reading


The Happy Priest - on Mary and the Mystery of the Incarnation

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It is precisely in difficult and challenging times that we must look to the witnesses of faith. Mary is the greatest of them ... continue reading


Congregation for the Clergy on 4th Sunday of Advent

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Wake up, therefore, because the birth of the Lord is almost at hand, let us go to meet Him in His glory: to listen to him, to love Him and ... continue reading


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