According to tradition prayed 15 times a day from St. Andrew’s Day (30 November) until Christmas
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment
in which the Son of God was born
of a most pure Virgin Mary
at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold.
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Advent1 – Make time for God (5:30)
Advent, 1st Sunday. I recently visited my little niece. She was so excited that every half-hour she asked, “Is [...]
This Sunday we light the first candle on the Advent wreath, and we leave the other three candles unlit. As I child it always bothered me that the candles burned so unevenly – the last purple candle hardly got warm before Christmas came. I suggested to my parents that we could rotate which candles were [...]
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Treat the King as He treats Us
Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King. The glory of the King of Kings is revealed. Everyone is [...]
These children dressed up as saints for Halloween. The older girl is Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, her younger sister is the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the baby is Mother Teresa. When I come across something like this, I am amazed at how faith makes our world so much bigger, and so much smaller [...]
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The Mass 2.0: The Eucharistic Prayer (12:30) Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my Roof
So far we have covered the Gloria and the [...]
The United Nations recently announced that there are 7,000,000,000 people living simultaneously on the planet, an announcement that is more of a good guess than an accurate count. Most of that growth happened in the last hundred years (there were 2 billion people c. 1927). This is a rare blessing: we have been spared from [...]
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The Mass 2.0: The Creed (14:00)
We Catholics we share a common set of beliefs. We believe that we have met God in a significant way, and this [...]
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