In the secular world, Christmas is but a single day. Wow, so much work for just a day of celebration! Many Catholics celebrate the full 12 Days of Christmas. While others still see the Christmas Season as ending with the Baptismal of the Lord.
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Our Lady of New Orleans
There are countless reasons why I love my faith as I do. Not to put any other Christian denominations down, but Catholic (meaning Universal) is the original Christian Faith. Our first duly appointed Pope was a fisherman named Simon, later called Peter by Christ Himself.
Continue reading “Our Lady of New Orleans”Guided By a Star
My mother was born and raised in the Philippines. Her mother was Filipino with just a splash of Chinese. Her father was a Blue-eyed Spaniard. Much of the Philippines reflected Spain’s influence from the Catholic Faith to traditions.
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Growing up Catholic made me feel special in a way. My faith was woven into the very fabric of my life. God ever present was comforting. It still is, but I wonder about the generations to come.
Continue reading “Epiphany Sunday and More”Blessed Be This Day
Within the Catholic Faith are Holy Days of Obligation, days outside of Sundays that Catholics attend Mass. While I don’t know how many Days there were in the beginning, in 1642 Pope Urban reduce it to just 36. Then in 1917 the Vatican listed 10 days in addition to Sundays that fell under the Code of Canon Law as Days of Obligation.
Continue reading “Blessed Be This Day”And Tears Fell from Heaven
Throughout the world Catholics will celebrate the Holy Family today. Their feast day is December 30, but often is moved to the closest Sunday thus allowing more of the faithful to attend. When this happens, the actual feast day normally celebrated on December 28 is all but forgotten.
Continue reading “And Tears Fell from Heaven”Saint John and the Christmas Season
While God does not work in Poetic Justice the way we think of Poetic Justice, there is something just in the fact that Saint John is the only Apostle whose feast day is within the Christmas Season. He was the youngest of the Chosen, and the only one to remain at the foot of the cross.
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Today is the 2nd Day of the Christmas Season. It is the Memorial Feast of Saint Stephen. It is also a Friday. Every Friday throughout the year is approached as a mini Good Friday. While fasting is not required, abstinence and penance is.
Continue reading “As the Season Continues”It’s Christmas Morning!
For the life of me I cannot recall Christmas Morning traditions as a child. There were the squeal of delight accompanied the flurry of ribbons, bows and colorful paper ripped from packages and tossed aside. Santa always managed to bring us something special even when times were tight.
Continue reading “It’s Christmas Morning!”Eggnon on Christmas Eve
Here we are all together for Christmas Eve’s blessed morning. It’s always a quiet morning for us. All the secular activities of the season are behind us now. We can enjoy a simple breakfast, perhaps take a stroll, then have a quiet dinner before Midnight Mass.
Continue reading “Eggnon on Christmas Eve”4th Sunday Advent: For He So Loved the World
Today marks the last day of Advent Sundays, but not the end of the Advent Season. That will not end until Christmas and the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Continue reading “4th Sunday Advent: For He So Loved the World”Good Morning Beautiful Embers Day of Advent
Not just on Sundays but all of Advent is filled with moments of quiet reflection. It is in the stillness of our hearts that the Lord waits, anxious to speak with us. Often that is more difficult than we can imagine. To be still requires the virtue of patients and a trust in God.
Continue reading “Good Morning Beautiful Embers Day of Advent”Give Thanks To The Lord
Welcome to the second Ember Days of Advent. While no longer fasting as a part of our Ember Days observances, it is a Friday. Whatever we do, there shall not be meat on the table.
Continue reading “Give Thanks To The Lord”Remembering A Feast Day of Old
Do you like learning new things about your faith? So much of the customs and traditions of old have fallen away, depriving those of us living in a hustle and bustle secular world to miss out on the quiet moments of contemplation of faith.
Continue reading “Remembering A Feast Day of Old”The First Ember Days of Advent
Ember Days. Until I began reading Dad’s text book The Visible Church which was published in 1922 as part of a Catholic Education I hadn’t even heard of Ember Days. Dad received the book to help him study in 1951, when he converted to the Catholic Faith. Little had changed in the teachings at that point.
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