Grace at the Threshold
Ela Milewska
December 31, 2025
As we prepare to cross into a new year, we do so with grace and hope, not fear.
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Ela Milewska
Ela Milewska has ministered in a variety of environments, from a small community in West Virginia to a department in the Archdiocese of New York. She has trained youth ministry and catechetical leaders, catechists, and educators across the United States and internationally. She also serves as a consultant for the U.S. bishop’s committee on evangelization and catechesis. She is the director of Franciscan Media.
The Celebration of Christmas
Ela Milewska
December 25, 2025
Christmas isn’t just a celebration of a birth, but of a new way of being. This is a day for joy: not manufactured cheer, but deep joy that says, “God is with us.” Always.
Christmas Eve: A Holy Pause
Ela Milewska
December 24, 2025
Before the angels sing, before the shepherds kneel, there is silence. Christmas Eve invites us to stop and breathe in the holy stillness.
The Beauty of the Incarnation
Ela Milewska
December 21, 2025
The beauty of the Incarnation is this: the God who created galaxies chose to dwell among us. Emmanuel means “God with us”—not just beside us, but within and around us.
Choose Joy
Ela Milewska
December 14, 2025
“Be strong, fear not! Here is your God” (Is 35:4). Today we choose joy and rejoice not in wishful thinking, but in the reality of God’s saving love.
Virgin Mary, Full of Grace
Ela Milewska
December 8, 2025
The Virgin Mary didn’t earn her holiness—it was a gift. And the same God who prepared her heart wants to shape ours to receive Christ fully.
Good News in Chaos
Ela Milewska
December 7, 2025
In a world that feels increasingly loud and chaotic, the good news of the Advent message breaks through: God loves you. Jesus saves you. Christ is alive.