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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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O Come O Come Emmanuel. Come into our hearts and bring us the joy of knowing that we are Your children. For now and for always we are Yours and Yours alone.
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December is the coldest, darkest time of the year for those living in the Northern Hemisphere. It is no wonder that so many of the Holy Days throughout December shine with candlelight.
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When most of us think of our Lady of Guadalupe, we think it must be some sort of Mexican celebration. That would be true, but that’s not where it ends. Did you know that our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of the Americas? That would be all of the Americas – from South America through Central America and North America.
Continue reading “A Little Friday Spice for Our Beautiful Lady”A Blessed Solemnity Feast
Imagine my surprise when the Vatican came out recently to reject petitions within the Church to formally proclaim Mary as “co-redemptory” or “co-mediatrix.” It shows how little I know about certain movements within the Church.
Continue reading “A Blessed Solemnity Feast”On the 2nd Advent Sunday Let Us Pray
Each Sunday of the Advent Season is dedicated to a pray for a particular grace. On the Second Sunday of Advent we pray for Peace.
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The best part about the Feast of Saint Nicholas is that for those who wish to separate the Secular Santa Clause from the birth of Christ, this gives you a way to do it gracefully without appearing to be some sort of a Scrooge. It also lets you open your home to others in the spirit of Christmas Giving.
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Advent is the most wonderful Season. My home has not one but three Advent wreaths and candles. It is the lighting of the candles, the glow of their lights, that fills my heart with immense joy. It is the anticipation and preparing the way of salvation that resonated within me.
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