Category Archives: Advent/Christmas
Just around the corner
I know it’s Ordinary Time, but our house still has one foot in the Christmas season. As most of you know, we started following the Vatican custom of leaving our lights and crèche up until February 2, the Feast of the Presentation (which is 40 days after Christmas). (Check out the webcam at St. Peter’s if …
The long night
This night is the long night, It will snow and it will drift, White snow there will be till day, White moon there will be till morn, This night is the eve of the Great Nativity, This night is born of Mary Virgin’s Son, This night is born Jesus, Son of the King of glory, …
Advent Prayer (repost)
Advent Prayer Like foolish folk of old I would not be, Who had no room that night for Him and thee. See, Mother Mary, here within my heart I’ve made a little shrine for Him apart; Swept it of sin, and cleansed it with all care; Warmed it with love and scented it with prayer. …
Where are you, God?
Fr. Mike Newman gave us this 3 and a half minute homily in our chapel this morning. It’s a homily for any of you who are having a hard day, are rushed and frazzled, and/or are a mom. Give yourself 3 1/2 minutes to listen to this. It will make you laugh and it will …
The O antiphons
This is a sampling of an absolutely beautiful rendition of the O Antiphons (which began yesterday) by Linda Witte Henke, a textile artist. You can go to this site to see the whole set: The great O antiphons.
He is not absent
“We are in the liturgical season of Advent, which prepares us for Christmas. As we all know, the word ‘Advent’ means ‘coming’, ‘presence’, and originally meant specifically the arrival of the king or emperor to a particular province. For us Christians it means a wonderful and overwhelming reality: God himself has crossed his Heavens and …
Christ comes
A Sunday-poem from Sr. Genevieve Glen, OSB: Christ comes, the promised peace of God, His hands with healing filled, In him is brokenness made whole And love from hate distilled. And when he comes, for whom we long, Then will all rage be stilled. Christ comes, the promised hand of God, To cast the veil …
Friday: from the archives
An Advent homily by Fr. Pat McNulty from Madonna House: Faith: A Subjunctive Mood It was about 3 a.m. when I pulled my car into the checkpoint at Canadian Customs and Immigration. Though there were trucks in their own lane, mine was the only car around. The middle-aged man in the booth requested my ID …
