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There's something evocative about this Christmas tree, as imagined by Salvador Dali. This would be a greeting card I could mail to a gri...

 Joseph, our certain hope below,      Glory of earth and heaven, Thou pillar of the world, to thee      Be praise immortal given. Thou as sa...

St. John of the Cross tells us that we do not truly know what it is we need, but Jesus knows. The soul properly disposed “does no more than ...

On this day in 1476 was born a girl named Lucy . She would eventually become the prioress of a convent in Narni, where she received the stig...

Feliz Dies de Diego! Exemplar of Evangelization, pray for us! Juan the Widower, pray for us!

What was the color of that Blossom bright? White to begin with, immaculate white. But what a wild flush on the flakes of it stood, When the ...

The great temptation of Advent, at least for me, is the petty sin of low horizons and little expectations — missing the moment to focus on t...

One of the most astute observations about the true meaning of the season I have ever read, Carl Olsen's substack article places my sorr...

"It is sometimes asked whether poets are not more commonly found external to the Church than among her children; and it would not surpr...

While waiting for Advent and preparing for it as a catechist, I am drawn more and more deeply into my lifelong love of this season, now that...

Some notes worth noting about the latest study:  "As for the top pastoral priorities of American priests, they are: youth and young adu...

 section 14: The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, Is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those w...

I join Amy Welborn in her annnual lament : the prayer attributed to St. Francis was written by WWI pacifists, and it had nothing to do with ...