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Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent December 21, 2022Daily Reading from the USCCB: Song of Songs 2:8-14 The Song of Songs is a scriptural
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Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent December 21, 2022Daily Reading from the USCCB: Song of Songs 2:8-14 The Song of Songs is a scriptural

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent December 20, 2022Daily Reading from the USCCB: Isaiah 7:10-14 This reading is messianic par excellence. King Ahaz has entered

I’m sure for people living in Isaiah’s time, the permanence of hills and mountains was something taken for granted.

It was a huge bag of peaches that took two kids to carry. I thanked them for their thoughtfulness, reflecting to myself, Who brings fruit

Reflect Silence and solitude are not loneliness, but stillness. In the stillness is an invitation to enter into the sacred presence so that we can

Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent December 19, 2022Daily Reading from the USCCB: Luke 1:5-25 Today’s Gospel recounts the promise to Zechariah and his

The Advent name for God is Emmanuel. We sing it over and over in the familiar hymn, “O come, O come, Emmanuel.” The name means “God is with us” and comes to us from the prophet Isaiah.

Fourth Sunday of Advent Cycle ADecember 18, 2022 A former Franciscan missionary in the Philippines once told me that when he traveled from mission to

Saturday of the Third Week of Advent December 17, 2022Daily Reading from the USCCB: Genesis 49:2, 8-10 During these last days before Christmas, the first

Friday of the Third Week of Advent December 16, 2022Daily Reading from the USCCB: John 5:33-36 There were many prophets like John the Baptist who