Category: Christmas
Fatima: A Story Too Fascinating to Ignore — ...
Posted by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 25, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Movies | 0 |
Unexpected: A Purgatorio in Quatrains
Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Nov 3, 2019 | Catholic Church, Family, Featured, Literature, Liturgy, Poetry, Spirituality | 0 |
Sing a New Song to the Lord
Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jul 7, 2019 | America, Books, Catholic Church, Culture, Featured, History, Liturgy, Music | 64 |
Seeing the Christmas story through the eyes of The Grumpy Old Ox
by Leslie Palma | Nov 22, 2020 | Christmas, Culture, Faith, Family, Literature, Spirituality | 0 |
In the Gospel of Luke, Christians learn from an early age that Jesus was born in a stable and...
Read MoreFirst Lady’s Rose Garden renovations spark the usual hysteria
by Janet Morana | Aug 28, 2020 | 2020, 2020 Election, America, Architecture, Christmas, History, presidential election, Trump | 2 |
I cannot tell a lie; Melania Trump did not cut down the cherry trees in the White House Rose...
Read MoreAdvent: The Season of Two Comings
by Father Frank Pavone | Dec 6, 2019 | abortion, Catholic Church, Christmas, Culture, Featured, Scripture | 0 |
Advent is upon us. The word means “coming” and the season focuses first on Christ’s second coming at the end of time, and then on the historical reality of his first coming and his birth at Christmas. When the...
Read MoreAvoiding the Widening Gyre of Our Times — A Nativity Reflection
by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 24, 2018 | Books, Catholic Church, Christmas, Culture, Faith, Featured, Literature, Poetry, Spirituality | 0 |
Let us not get caught up in the widening gyre. Let us not stumble.
Read MoreChristmas Gifts of Music to Freshen the Season and The Whole Year
by Carl C. Curtis | Dec 16, 2018 | Christmas, Featured, Music | 0 |
How do we avoid the deadly familiarity that might render songs about the greatest of events, God’s becoming man, a great big bore?
Read MoreWhy the Wise Men Followed the Star
by Deal Hudson | Dec 23, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Scripture | 0 |
Their experience with the babe in a manger seemed to announce the beginning of a life that would overturn the order of things and challenge the supremacy of all earthly powers.
Read MoreChristmas Is Also for the Unborn!
by Father Frank Pavone | Dec 22, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Saints | 0 |
Our Christmas cannot be complete until we join in the great effort to end the oppression of the unborn once and for all. In the merciful and loving example of our Lord, let us make room for them, too.
Read MoreChristmas Gifts: Making a Joyful Noise With Three Singers and a Pianist
by Carl C. Curtis | Dec 10, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Music | 0 |
Beyond the joys of piano, the delights of the soprano are not to be ignored, and I have three to place under the tree, and they are sublime.
Read MoreThe 100 Best Catholic Films for Christmas
by Deal Hudson | Dec 5, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Movies | 12 |
In offering this list, I am not following any theological guidelines, rather I am concerned with...
Read MorePrepare The Way of the Lord: Our World Needs Advent!
by Father Frank Pavone | Dec 1, 2017 | Christmas, Family, Featured, Spirituality | 0 |
Abortion continues to tear apart children in the womb, their families, and our whole society. Ours is a world that needs Advent, a world that needs Christ.
Read MoreEight Recordings for Christmas — From Grand Mahler and Sacred Rachmaninov to Superlative Rozsa and a Requiem for Mothers
by Deal Hudson | Nov 19, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Music | 0 |
I always come back to Haydn, even before Mozart, but I’m not going to argue the case — I am immediately drawn in to his sound world, so full of emotion, of dancing and weeping, and the conductor Giovanni Antonini is afraid of neither.
Read MoreLet’s Stop Sneering at the “Christmas and Easter Catholics”
by Mike Eisenbath | Apr 7, 2016 | Catholic Church, Christmas, Faith, Featured, Friendship, Liturgy, Manners, Spirituality | 4 |
I’m actually someone who misses all those Christmas-and-Easter Catholics on the 50 other Sundays. Their spots in the pews are lonely when vacant. No matter what the ages are of those people who could fill those places, we miss them in our worship. We miss their voices and prayers, their spirit and their needs.
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