Preparing your heart and home in Advent November 25, 2024By Woodeene Koenig-Bricker OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary That sense of joyful preparation combined with anticipation is the attitude we bring to Advent as we await the arrival of Christ the Lord.
Preparing for Change November 22, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Commentary, Open Window As we look ahead to Advent, it almost feels as if nature is paving the way to that time, calling us to let the fading vibrancy of autumn go, and be open to the journey ahead. Change can be wonderful, but it can also be hard.
Family and friends, the 2024 election and Thanksgiving November 21, 2024By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary The shrug also helps us to remember that good people may disagree and still be good people, and that most of us are doing the best we can, by such light as we are given.
A Eucharistic Word: Waiting November 21, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist The Eucharist, as the source and summit of Christian life, has much to teach us about waiting.
In my end is my beginning November 20, 2024By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary For those of us who have been united through baptism to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the last day of each of our lives does not fade away into eternal night but opens onto a new day, at the height of which we will rest in the glorious splendor of the perpetual light of God, every moment of our lives on this earth held in his eternal memory.
A pilgrim reflects upon traveling hundreds of miles with the Eucharist November 20, 2024By Kai Weiss OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist As one of the perpetual pilgrims who traveled with him for the entire two months, I got to experience the adventure of a lifetime.
Question Corner: Is Dec. 9 a holy day of obligation this year? November 20, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments The solution for competing solemnities is to transfer the liturgical celebration of the non-Sunday holy day to the first subsequent available date. Thus, in the year 2024, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated in our liturgy on Monday, Dec. 9.
‘Don’t leave us alone’ November 18, 2024By Jenny Kraska Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Knights of Columbus, War in Ukraine What emerged from their words was the indomitable will of Ukrainians not to give in to circumstances, to resist and begin again to rebuild what was destroyed, thanks in part to the vital support of the Knights’ organization and Caritas Ukraine.
A faith that questions November 18, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Bible, Commentary Salvation history can be told through the questions that appear in Scripture.
Focus on God November 15, 2024By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary Like many, I was appalled at the dehumanizing words and lies spoken about migrants in the recent election, and the joy expressed about the threats to tear families apart by deporting hard working people hoping for citizenship. Words hurt.
What little we have to give November 14, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window The other day I was in a meeting at work. We were introducing ourselves to a group of people visiting from outside our organization. When it was time for one of my coworkers to introduce himself, he mentioned he had just started working there recently. The person leading the meeting laughed. He dismissed my new […]
Trump victory signals new hope of coalition building for Catholics November 13, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary While economics largely drove the result of this election, we Catholics understand that many cultural and social issues are far more important than decreasing interest rates and controlling inflation.
