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Mary of the Month (March 2013)

By On Friday, 8 Mar 2013 · 1 Comment

In case you might be tempted to anxiety over the future of the Church, here is a magnificent rendition of the “woman clothed with the sun, the moon at her feet.” This biblical image describes Mary, but it also describes God’s plan for the Church. Even though the Church is an outcast in so many [...]

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Book signing December 31st

By On Saturday, 15 Dec 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Book signing December 23rd

By On Tuesday, 11 Dec 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Fortnight for Freedom: The trees on the mountain

By On Friday, 22 Jun 2012 · Leave a Comment

Today the Catholic Church remembers two martyrs, St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher. St. Thomas More proves a number of jokes wrong: there is at least one lawyer in Heaven. He was also my confirmation patron, not because I aspired to follow his career, but because I aspired to follow his courage in living [...]

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Does God curse us with bad weather?

By On Monday, 6 Feb 2012 · 1 Comment

The first snowfall of the year is always something magical. I love to look out at the ordinary world that has been transfigured. Messy piles have disappeared, dirty things are covered over, and all the trees are clothed in white as if dressed for a wedding. I always feel that a new snowfall is a [...]

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Looking for a good New Years resolution? Ask the Pope

By On Sunday, 1 Jan 2012 · Leave a Comment

Pope Benedict expressed three wishes for Christmas. They would make excellent resolutions this New Year.

VATICAN CITY, 9 DEC 2011 (VIS) – Wednesday, 7 December, thanks to a “tablet” connected to the power grid, Benedict XVI lit the largest Christmas tree in the world from the papal apartments. This electronic “tree” is located in the [...]

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Lighting Advent candles

By On Saturday, 26 Nov 2011 · Leave a Comment

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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Discalced Carmelite Video

By On Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011 · Leave a Comment

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Seven Billion is a big family

By On Monday, 7 Nov 2011 · 1 Comment

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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