Saints, Feasts, and Seasons Feed

Hold your fire! Let's call a truce in the war on Christmas

U.S. Catholic — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:06:54 -0700

To the barricades, patriots! Lock down the airports! Suspend the Constitution! Appropriate billions of dollars! Prepare a preemptive attack! The enemies, whoever they are, have launched a war on Christmas!

Conscientious courage

U.S. Catholic — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:00:21 -0700

Franz Jägerstätter paved the way for those who object to war by following a higher order.

Watch: 5 questions with Laurie Brink, O.P.

goodwink — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:15:00 -0800

We shouldn’t get hung up on the details surrounding Jesus’ birth, says this Bible scholar. As with any scripture story, there’s more here than meets the eye.
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Open some doors this Advent

goodwink — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:49:59 -0800

"Listen! I am standing at the door knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with me" (Rev. 3:20).
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Get wrapped up in family traditions this Christmas

goodwink — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:46:39 -0800

THE CHRISTMAS MY DAUGHTER WAS 6 AND MY SON WAS 3 was probably the low point. Not that it lacked anything, you understand. Quite the contrary.
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What child is this?

goodwink — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:27:56 -0800

Christmas Day of the year of the Lord 2000. Two thousand years of the reality of the Incarnation of God in human flesh, the coming of the holy into our midst, the poor son of Mary and her husband, Joseph, son of God and son of Man, firstborn of all creation.
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Have yourself a defiant little Christmas

goodwink — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:20:05 -0800

In those long ago days of Christmas innocence when it always snowed gently in a starry and windless night, my parents would hustle my sisters and me into the back seat of the car, and we would drive slowly, snow crunching under the frozen tires, into the neighborhoods of the rich to see the lights.
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What are you waiting for?

goodwink — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:59:40 -0800

ADVENT IS THE LITURGICAL SEASON OF VIGILANCE OR, to put it more mundanely, of waiting. During the four weeks prior to Christmas, we light the candles of our Advent wreaths and put ourselves in the spiritual space of the Israelite people who, through many long centuries, waited for the coming of the Messiah ("How long, O Lord?").
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All in the family

goodwink — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:15:00 -0700

A journalist tries to get the real scoop on his cousin the saint.
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Death takes a holiday

goodwink — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:15:00 -0700