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In the Light of Reality
For all of the iPhones, iPads and modern comforts and conveniences, we all still seem to want the basics. We want something real. A good hot cup of coffee brewed on a frosty Minnesota winter morning is one of the great gifts of the earth and its Creator (couple it with bacon and eggs, and…
Feast of the Epiphany–The Annual House Blessing
(picture courtesy of Fr. John Trigilio’s blog) *Many local parishes will provide the faithful with blessed chalk and incense. If your parish does not offer this, approach your priest (pester him if you have to!) and ask him to bless a piece of chalk for this traditional house blessing and devotion. The family gathers…
Today is St. John’s Feast Day–Did You Have Your Wine Blessed?
If not, grab a couple of bottles and run over to your parish and have Father bless the wine! When uncorking the bottles, don’t forget to raise the glass of blessed wine to one another (including the children, as is the custom) and toast: “Drink to the love of St. John the Divine.” Prayer at…
The Desire of the Everlasting Hills
For these thousands of years that ancient country had stood along its sea, between the waters and the great desert, peopled we know not how and sprung from we know not what origins; its separated small fertile bays, its lesser plains, its hill cities and ports had grown. The plough of Egypt had come in and…
The Fourth Sunday of Advent
It is our pleasure to provide our readers prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Not only are these prayers appropriate for the lighting of the final candle of the Advent Wreath, they are appropriate as part of the mealtime or evening prayers throughout this week until Christmas. We hope these are providing some spiritual sustenance for…
From Under the Rubble…Can You See the Baby?
Another December, another War on Christmas. Every Advent, it seems, we must slog through a barrage of anti-Christmas noise commandeered by the usual suspects. Full of sound and fury, they engage in a grotesque and painful pirouette with spineless officials and misguided judges to cleanse any remaining whiff of religion from public life. The all-too…
Third Sunday of Advent: Gaudete Sunday
It is our pleasure to provide our readers prayers for Gaudete Sunday. Not only are these prayers appropriate for the lighting of the rose candle, they are appropriate as part of the mealtime or evening prayers throughout this week. We hope these are providing some spiritual sustenance for your Advent.–The Board of Directors Prayers for Gaudete Sunday…
Does Contraception Help, Or Hurt, The Poor?
The Witherspoon Institute has an important three part series that begins by looking at the Contraceptive Mandate, and then moves more deeply to address the persuasive task that confronts us in the culture: given that the formidable evidence documenting the destructive nature of contraception is on our side, how do we turn the tide? A…
The Second Sunday of Advent
It is our pleasure to provide our readers prayers for the Second Sunday in Advent. Not only are these and all the prayers for the Sundays in Advent appropriate for the lighting of the candles on the particular Sunday, they are appropriate as part of the mealtime or evening prayers throughout each of the weeks in…
