The light shines in the darkness.

7TH DAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD The light shines in the darkness. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens wrote these famous words in 1859 as the opening to his novel A Tale of Two Cities, but they seem to encompass...

Do not love the world.

6TH DAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD Do not love the world. How curious that, during the season of Christmas, we read through the first letter of John! It’s curious because it is not directly connected with the images and story of Jesus’ birth. Yet...

The Holy Spirit was upon him.

5TH DAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD The Holy Spirit was upon him.  Today our Gospel leaps ahead from Jesus’ birth to forty days later, when Mary and Joseph presented their firstborn to the Lord. Simeon surely saw many families at the Temple that day,...

Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.

THE HOLY INNOCENTS, MARTYRS (FEAST) Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.  It’s only three days after Christmas, and already we are witnessing a violent reaction to Jesus’ coming. Even though Jesus is still a helpless, vulnerable child, he poses a...

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