Advent & Christmas News
Missing the Point: Racing Down the Royal Advent Highway
By • Catholic Online • 12/17/2010
As I raced through Advent, I was missing the point. Hurrying to accomplish, scrambling to tick items off the list, racing everywhere, rushing to get more stuff. It all reveals our modern focus has become terribly askew. What are we preparing for? We need Advent to help straighten the way, to teach ...
Making the Advent Journey with Mary: Hail, Full of Grace, the Lord is with You
By • Catholic Online • 12/15/2010
From antiquity, she has been given a special place of honor among Christians as the Mother of the Lord. She walked in a deep, abiding and intimate relationship with God. He was with her before she even responded to His invitation. God chose Mary even before Mary chose God. This order is vitally ...
The Star of Christmas - A Great Book for Christmas
By • Catholic Media Review • 12/14/2010
We have tried to maintain in our Christmas tree a balance between the lavishness of the Christmas season, with all its glitz and giving, with the stark reality of the humble manger which was honored to hold the Son of God. We look for books and music that do the same, and have found such a ...
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Celebrated Throughout the Americas.
By • Catholic Online • 12/13/2010
Pilgrims arrive by the thousands, many of them by bicycle and make their way to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City on the eve of the feast. Among them, dancers, musicians, singers and other performers come to offer their performances in honor of La Virgen Morena (the dark Virgin). ...
Congregation for the Clergy on the Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete!
Catholic Online • 12/13/2010
This joy, invisibly present within us, encourages us to journey on with confidence. A model and support of this deep joy is the Virgin Mary, through whom we were given the Infant Jesus. May She, a faithful disciple of her Son, obtain for us the grace of living this liturgical season alert and ...
Pope: Mary Calls Christians to be 'Immaculate'
By • Catholic Online • 12/13/2010
'Thus Mary says to us that we are all called to open ourselves to the action of the Holy Spirit to be able to reach our final destination, to be immaculate, fully and definitively free of evil' -- Pope Benedict XVI ROME, Italy (Catholic Online) - On the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, ...
Celebrate the holidays with this non-alcoholic eggnog
By • Catholic Online • 12/8/2010
Christmas time is soon to be here, and there are lots of holiday food and drinks to enjoy with families and friends. However - there are growing concerns about having a safe and sane Christmas season. To this end, we've uncovered this delicious recipe for non-alcoholic eggnog. Everyone in the ...
Immaculate Conception: 'O Virgin, by whose Blessing all Nature is Blessed!'
By • Catholic Online • 12/8/2010
God, then, is the Father of the created world and Mary the mother of the re-created world. God is the Father by whom all things were given life, and Mary the mother through whom all things were given new life. For God begot the Son, through whom all things were made, and Mary gave birth to him as ...
1st Joyful Mystery of the Rosary: The Annunciation
By • Catholic Online • 12/8/2010
Mary's answer to Gabriel is simply incredible, but it became much more precious for me when I stopped to ponder the middle of this story. We may miss the best part is we fail to recognize the humanness in Mary. Not sinfulness, but humanness. That's the quality that makes this event so marvelous. ...
Reflection on the 2d Sunday of Advent from the Congregation for the Clergy
Catholic Online • 12/6/2010
"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" (Mt 3:1). The heartfelt appeal of the man that from his mother's womb was selected as the precursor, resonates more than ever in our time. The one that would straighten the tortuous path and the wayward road of the people of Israel, is the luminous ...
