Parents, Do You Know?
There is a Christmas song I’ve heard a few times entitled “Mary Did You Know?” It asks Mary, the Mother of Jesus if she knew who her Son…
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Evangelizing Christmas
WARNING: This article is meant as satire. While I am partially serious, please take no offense. Team, this is it. We’ve been waiting all year, and we only…
What the Baptist Can Teach Us about Joy
Readings for December 16, 2012: Third Sunday in Advent On the third Sunday of Advent, the penitential purple of the season changes to rose and we celebrate “Gaudete”…
Blessed Are the Poor at Christmas
Amid all the bustle of cooking, shopping, and family visits, we need to find a time of quiet and peace, a peace the world does not give. While I…
Nothing Is Lost
Last night I was talking to my dear aunt on the phone and, after telling me that she’s been saying one rosary after another for a special intention,…
Forming Intentional Disciples
I read a whole lotta books, but most of them aren’t germane to Catholicism. And if you want a review of Neptune’s Inferno or Korsun Pocket, there are…
Fielding Hot Potatoes: Mothers as Evangelists
The time: A weekday morning The place: A parish church The scene: A young mother, holding her baby and leading several older children, is leaving the church after…
Advent and the Second Coming
Despite what the local radio stations and giant retailers say, we are not yet in the season of Christmas. We are now in that glorious season of Advent. …
Hope in the Imperfect
I recently received a class-wide email from another mother of a child in my son’s preschool class. She had joined the class for a Thanksgiving celebration and stopped…
Good for the Soul
For many people confessing our faults to anyone else is not easy. We fear looking bad or what others will think about us. It also makes us very…