A Faith Checklist
It is the Season of Christ’s birth and the end of the year which means it is a season of checklists. Dad has one, the kids have their list,…
Faith Library
Category: Saints & Church Year
Walking through the Catholic calendar.
Early Gifts
Are you excited? Did you get it? What, you say? Your gift, your early Christmas gift from Jesus. It was right there, in his conversation this morning, the…
Are you ready?
Something wonderful also is about to happen to you. Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart. As you ready for his joyful coming? Jesus said to…
First the Fast, Then the Feast
Readings for the 2nd Sunday of Advent, December 4, 2016 Christmas cards speak about it. Christmas carols sing about it. Even the angels at Bethlehem proclaimed it. “Peace…
Images of Christ in Those Around Us…and in Ourselves
I was looking through old photographs the other day. Yes, actual have-them-developed-and-hold-them-in-your-hand type of photographs. Many of the people in those images are no longer part of my…
Advent: The Real Meaning of Christmas Lights
Readings for the 1st Sunday of Advent, November 27, 2016 As fall moves onward towards winter we have places to go, things to do, people to meet. Yet…
Lessons From the Craft Fair
With autumn in the air I have already started to look forward to Advent. I know it seems a bit early but the parish I’m in has already…
Get to Know God Through the Litanies
I love the Easter Vigil Mass. From the lighting of the Easter candle outside of the church, to the thrill of watching as new members are baptized and…
You Saint You
In November our Church calls us to remember the remarkable of the Church both recognized (All Saints) and those unrecognized (All Souls). We set up memorial tables, reverence…
JACINTA MARTO, THE YOUNGEST EVANGELIZER
Everyone sees Jacinta Marto as a seer or as a potential saint. Here we will look at her as an evangelizer, the youngest evangelizer we know of. Who…