Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Advent, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
With Christmas just days away, Christians must embrace the human quality of “littleness” as a path toward living out God’s humility exhibited in Advent, the papal preacher said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary
Keeping Christ in Christmas, or in any other day for that matter, is really the challenge of a eucharistic lifestyle. Our words are meaningless and empty when they are not upheld by our personal conformity in all we think, say and do.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Commentary, Open Window
I must have been about 5 or 6 that Christmas Eve. My grandmother was spending the night so she could wake up with all of us on Christmas morning. To make sure that Grandma had a bed, my oldest sister Maureen and I slept on the third floor of our Rodgers Forge townhouse. We were […]
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Commentary
Each day we stand before the doors of chronos and kairos. We can enter into the frantic, fast-paced, nonstop rush of consumerist culture, with its endless urgent cries of “buy, buy, buy” and “more, more, more.” Or we can turn and open another door, the quieter way of faith.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Commentary, Open Window
As a woman and mother, I sometimes feel like I should feel close to Mary during Advent. And I do. But I often find myself looking more to St. Joseph. In so many ways, his story is similar to our stories. He’s thrust into a situation he couldn’t have anticipated. He considers backing out and […]
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Advent, News, Vatican, World News
Courageous trust in God, oneself and others is needed to see the good in one’s life and to be able to embrace a difficult and imperfect world, said the preacher of the papal household.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Advent, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis prayed that Advent would be a time of spiritual renewal to build up a civilization of love.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Commentary
During Advent, the church encourages us to renew our search for God and teaches us how and where to look for him.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Commentary
A Christmas tradition started by St. Francis may help us keep our focus more on the coming miracle than the latest sales. The beloved saint from Assisi taught us to live simply and care for the poor, including through the Nativity scene.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Advent, News, Vatican, World News
At 53 years old, Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini, the new preacher of the papal household, was among the youngest in the Vatican audience hall when he told Pope Francis and members of the Roman Curia: be open to change.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News
Christmas this season in the Holy Land will be celebratory, despite ongoing bloodshed and war, the patriarchs of the Holy Land said, as Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa encouraged pilgrims to come back to the birthplace of Jesus.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary, The Domestic Church
As we walk toward Christmas, may we try to view this season as one of opportunity rather than obligation, being open to the journey and to the ways we can give and receive.
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