Christmas
The New-born Child & The Essential Happiness of Heaven – Christmas Meditation Day 2 (Dec 26)
The New-born Child In the cradle before us lies the new-born Infant wrapped in swaddling-clothes and laid in the manger. Let us contemplate Him for a few moments and see what lessons He teaches us. 1. He teaches us the unspeakable force of divine charity. How was it possible for the Eternal Word, the co-equal…
Christmas Meditation (Dec 25) The Nativity & Heaven
Increase your haul this Christmas with extra spiritual gifts! Christmas meditations by the late Fr. Clarke SJ run daily through the entire Christmas season.
The first few days include bonus meditations from “The Great Truths”, a series that ran though advent and include the entire background of salvation history and how you fit into it, including God’s great love for you and His desire to redeem you and be with you forever!
Christmastide Meditations
These are daily meditations for Christmastide. The first few days also have the completion of “The Great Truths” set, which complimented the Advent Meditations. These meditations are short be very fruitful.
Feast of St. Andrew: Time to start your Christmas Novena!!!
The St. Andrew Christmas novena begins today. We have a trick to help you say the novena this year! Free and our pleasure to provide!
The First Church Liturgy: Angels Adoring, Shepherds Give Glory – All History is Changed
Let Our Lord remember your stinky self as one of the shepherds that bent a knee in the stable.
Why we need 12 Days of Christmas and How the Catholic Bishops Robbed us of Them
Many in America tell us God has no place in the public sphere. Especially Jesus. Nativity scenes are forbidden on Government property, unless it’s one of a hundred different displays. Christmas is preceded by months of advertising. The “you need this” advertising of vehicles and jewelry now began soon after Halloween. Christmas is secularized. To top…
Who Needs a Savior?
I’m glad Christmas is an octave+. It’s just too much to soak in in one day. I heard that on a recent Polish polka show, the hosts were cracking a joke that Christmas for Poles begins at Midnight Mass and they don’t leave the house for 12 days. It’s funny because it’s true. Between the ham, the Christmas carols,…
Sausages, Fireplaces, and The Mystery of Christmas Traditions
Well, I am within the 12 Days of Christmas, so I don’t consider this article late (by the way, don’t forget the Epiphany House Blessing!). My bride and I both spring from good ethnic stock–she, a Chicago Polack; I, a Cleveland Slovenian. But through the strange twists and turns of Providence (and decisions that I can only…
Who is this Savior Born of Mary?
Christmas is wrought with contradictions and hope. I love it. I always have to wonder just Who people think Jesus is and what His Incarnation means for us today, though. Besought with an authoritarian government, the encroachment of Marxist demoralization, and myriads of distractions foisted on us by the mass media, it is difficult sometimes…
“It’s A Wonderful Life”: Capracorn?
As is my Christmas tradition, I watched Frank Capra’s “It’s A Wonderful Life” once again last night. Watching the accompanying featurettes, I was surprised to learn that the film was somewhat of a box-office failure when it was released. Critics described Capra’s vision just as Old Potter described George Bailey’s idealism: “sentimental hogwash.” The director’s…