This Advent, echo John the Baptist: ‘Behold the Lamb!’ December 9, 2023By Father Patrick Briscoe OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary John the Baptist cries out to us, like parents urging their children, saying “This is the Lord!”
A new baby for Advent December 7, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Commentary, Open Window There is nothing like that wait for the baby to arrive, especially in those final hours before the birth.
‘You kill your crickets, eh?’ Discovering Dickens’ other Christmas tale December 7, 2023By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Books, Commentary “The Christmas Carol” is only the most prominent of Dickens’s several Christmas stories, my favorite of which is “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home,” published on Dec. 20, 1845.
Can one Mass satisfy my Sunday and Christmas obligation in 2023? December 6, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Question Corner You cannot “double dip” by attending a Christmas eve Mass that happens to be on Sunday and have this one Mass fulfill two obligations.
Pray the news, pray the media, and imbue the culture with Christ December 6, 2023By Sister Nancy Usslemann OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Growing our spiritual lives while immersed in a digital world requires a media spirituality that centers us in Christ, the perfect communicator.
Keep the candle lit: pouring out the greatest gift December 5, 2023By Christina Capecchi Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Young Adult Ministry The things we buy cannot replace quality time spent with loved ones.
Detachment as a component of God’s peace December 4, 2023By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Detachment scares people — it sounds like coldness or indifference — but I’m coming to believe it’s actually a deep manifestation of love.
How shall we continue? December 4, 2023By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Child & Youth Protection, Commentary, From the Archbishop Pope Francis wrote about encountering Christ and the joy of evangelizing, a church that goes forth, not hiding or shrinking from challenges, but embracing them in openness and love to all.
Spend this Advent season with the saints December 3, 2023By Bert Ghezzi OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary, Saints Advent prepares us for Jesus’ coming at Christmas and for his coming into our lives afresh. And no one knows how to get ready to welcome Christ better than the saints.
Let the warmth of Advent pull the bleak midwinter from you December 2, 2023By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary Make Advent loving and fun, with your focus on Jesus.
Unity is impossible? Here’s what a 450-Year-Old, 40-part motet can teach us December 1, 2023By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Arts & Culture, Commentary The richness of 40 distinct voices lifts the soul upward, but also outward.
Friday abstinence: Getting to the meat of the matter November 30, 2023By Emily Stimpson Chapman OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Abstaining from meat is still the U.S. bishops’ stated preference for how Catholics should observe Fridays.
