First Sunday of Advent Mass with New Cardinals
By Carol Glatz – Concelebrating Mass with newly-created cardinals, Pope Francis said Advent is a time to be vigilant, hopeful and helpful. People of faith who believe in...
Category: Advent
Advent: Seeking the Face of God? Look Around You
By Mike Nelson – How many of you, when asked, “How are you doing?”, have replied, “I’m just waiting for this year to end”? We have experienced in...
Mass Readings: 29 November – 6 December, 2020
Liturgical Calendar Year B – Weekday Cycle Year 1 Sunday 29 November, 1st Sunday of Advent Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64: 2-7, Psalms 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 (4), 1...
Finding Light in a Weary World
“Can you believe people are putting their Christmas decorations up already?” an acquaintance asked me the first week of November. “I’m used to the stores starting Christmas...
Bishops in Zimbabwe Call for Reconciliation, Unity Ahead of Advent
By Magdalene Kahiu – As Catholics across the world prepare to usher in the Season of Advent on Sunday, November 29, Bishops in Zimbabwe have, in their...
Pope: What Nativity Scenes Really Tell Us
By Cindy Wooden – A Nativity scene is a simple reminder of something astonishing: God became human to reveal the greatness of his love “by smiling and opening...
Christmas Giving that Conveys God’s Love For Us
Many people know the short story by O. Henry titled “The Gift of the Magi” in which a young couple with very little financial means figure out...
In Advent, Have Hope for South Africa
This year will probably go down as one of the hardest in our national psyche. Its memory will be dominated by the dark incidents of gender-based violence,...
10 Ways to Put Christ into Christmas
During Advent and at Christmas, our kids focus on Santa Claus and jingling bells. Erin Carelse suggests ten ways of turning their focus to Christ. The speakers in the...
All About Advent Calendars!
By Carol Zimmermann – The Advent calendar with one tab or box to open each day for 24 or 25 days taps into something people really like: countdowns. It also...
Why We Must Wait For The Lord
In the age of the selfie and instant gratification, we may lose the patience to discover God within us — but there is a remedy, as FR RALPH DE HAHN explains...
Peace Amid the Noise
For Catholics, the Advent season should create a tension in reconciling the secular and the holy elements of the weeks leading up to Christmas. More scrupulous Catholics...
