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The Advent Wreath

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John the Baptist best describes this holy period we know as Advent by saying, “One mightier than I is coming” (Lk 3:16). We are called during Advent to get ready, to prepare ourselves for the birth of Our Lord, Jesus, at Christmas. It is a season of penance, expectation and hope. We wait and watch Read More
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Learning to Pray with Catholic Tradition

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One of the great developments in prayer habits in recent years has been the rediscovery of lectio divina, the prayerful reading and reflection on Scripture. It was even more reinforced by Pope Francis’ 2019 motu propio Aperuit Illis, which established the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time as a world day of liturgical focus on the Read More
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How to Grow in Holiness

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One summer during priestly formation, I was traveling in West Virginia with the Dominican preaching team there. Somehow I learned that my best friend’s father had died. The man had been very solicitous of me, a kind of surrogate for my own dead father. I wanted to attend his funeral in Chicago but, at the Read More