We Christians believe that this child is the hope seeded deep in the psyche of all those who waited for the day of the Lord in Judaism, though they still wait...
Advent
Get ready for Advent with U.S. Catholic: reflections, practices, and justice-centered insights for the season of hope.
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 always opens me up. Just when I think I am in control of my life and ministry, I am confronted by the challenges of a new liturgical year. The prophets...
"For a child has been born for us, a son given to us… he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." These...
Thanksgiving, and in some places Halloween, is barely over these days before stores begin to play Christmas songs as background sound for the orgy of buying...
By Mary Clare Brady This article appeared in the December 1993 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 58, No. 12, pages 31-33). “It was the best of times, it was the...
