“Is it Christmas yet?” Millions of children around the world ask that question every day during Advent, for Advent seems to be interminably long for them. Patience is not a …
Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the Second Sunday of Advent. So, if you have a traditional Catholic Advent wreath, you would light two purple candles. In today’s Gospel reading from Matthew …
Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the First Sunday of Advent, the first day of a new church year. This begins Year A, which means that for the most part, our Sunday …
On this 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Paul tells us how important it is to be models for others in his Second Letter to the Thessalonians (3: 7-12): “Brothers …
Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. In the United States, Catholics also celebrate National Vocation Awareness Week that goes from November 6-12. Although all people have …
In today’s Gospel reading from St. Luke (19: 1-10), we hear the story of the call of Zacchaeus. In the story, Jesus was walking through Jericho with a crowd of …
Today is the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, and because it is the second-to-the-last Sunday in October, it is also known as World Mission Sunday. Pope Pius XI instituted World …
On this Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we encounter a beautiful story by Jesus on the importance of persistence in prayer. We read: Then he told them a parable about …
On this Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we read the story of how Jesus healed ten lepers, but only one returned to give thanks (Luke 17: 11-19). We read: “And …
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