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Today's First Reading: Heb 6:10-20 Brothers and sisters: God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love you have demonstrate...

"The Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus' message. Lovingly received day after day by the Church, it is to be preached with dau...

I know that I've been quiet here since Christmas. Sometimes it seems that when the Lord is working most strongly in my soul, He moves me...

A priest recently said to me: "Our Lord comes as a baby at Christmas so that we might find it easier to love him". One has but to ...

Dear Kathryn, the new profile picture is for you! :) Blessed Christmas, everyone!

Hear us, O God, our salvation, as we rejoice on the feast of Saint Lucy, Thy virgin and Martyr, and grant us to learn the spirit of pious de...

“Am I not here, I who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow...

“The arrangement of the names of Christ , however, is manifold… Sun , because He is the illuminator… Vine , because we are redeemed by His b...

“ Peace begins with a smile.” ~Mother Teresa We are in the Advent week of Peace...have you smiled today?

"What was Juan Diego like? Why did God look upon him? The Book of Sirach, as we have heard, teaches us that God alone ' is mighty; ...

“What a great gift to have Mary Immaculate as mother! A mother resplendent with beauty, the transparency of God's love. I am thinking of...

“A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD!” ~from Today’s Gospel

God of joy and cheer, we thank you for your servant, the good bishop Nicholas. In loving the poor, he showed us your kindness; in caring for...

Lord, we believe that You can make us see. ~See today’s gospel

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father...” ~Matthew 7...

"It is not the actual pysical exertion that counts towards a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but by the spirit of faith...

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“Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.” ~Psalm 122 (Today's Responsorial Psalm )

“ Advent is, par excellence, the season of hope.” ~Celebration of Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI...