Become a Child of Christ
I’ve always loved today’s Gospel, and I like to give my imagination lots of room to run as I visualize what it must have been like to be…
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Author: Carol Ann Chybowski
Create a Clean Heart in Me, O God
Have you ever felt like King David in today’s psalm? Here is a man who seems to have it all, to be a smashing success. The rags-to-riches story…
Have You Heard His Voice?
Today’s Gospel is all about seeking God. John the Baptist, the herald, first pointed all Israel toward the coming of the Messiah. Once the Messiah had come, he…
Receiving the Gift of Advent
Thanks to a quirk in the calendar, the season of Advent is now well underway. Hopefully we’ve have not broken our promises to ourselves to spend less time…
A Brief History of All Souls’ Day
Happy Feast Day! As you are all probably aware, today we are commemorating All Souls’ Day, the companion celebration to yesterday’s Feast of All Saints. Celebrating the legacy…
Tapping into Divine Mercy
Today is the feast of St Faustina Kowalska, the young Polish sister who received revelations from Jesus about the depth of His love and His mercy. We should…
An Attitude of Prayer, Revisited
Last summer, when I first began posting on New Evangelizers, I wrote about how and why I had been attempting to develop and attitude of prayer in my…
A Different Good Samaritan
Back in the late 80’s/early 90’s I took riding lessons and leased a horse at a small stable near Carpinteria. There was a carriage house on the property…
How can you fast during a feast?
I’ve always found today’s Gospel reading (Matthew 9:14-17) difficult to understand. It felt as though Jesus was light years ahead of John’s disciples, and even his own for…
Celebrating the Eucharist, Again
The feast of Corpus Christi, or in more modern terms the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, was introduced into the Church calendar in the mid 1200’s…