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We know how fragile newborn life can be. And we know that these tiny lives can still be lost, even with all the technological advances of our own century.
Somewhere in the course of a childhood or a lifetime, we learn to balance expectations and reality.
One of the great mysteries of our faith is how it was possible that God, infinite and all good, could come down upon this earth and become human like us.
The Peace Prayer reminds us to brighten the lives of others with deeds that manifest our familial bonds as children of a loving, forgiving God.
I know that the Jesus being born with no fanfare in a cave to a young mother seems almost too wonderful to be true—but it is.
On this Sunday after Christmas, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family.
Dark days can mean dark moods. This natural turn of the seasons helps explain the timing of Christmas.
Knowing that God not only knows but experienced what it was to be a human being should give us patience with our weakness and joy in our strength.
In Luke 1:26–38, the angel Gabriel visits Mary. Before delivering the news that she would become pregnant, Gabriel prefaces the message by saying, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.”
Christmas allows a break from that gray depression, an inner darkness reflected in the winter sky.
