Today, on this day after the first Sunday of Easter, we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation.  The feast was moved from March 25 (Good Friday this year) to today.  I thought about writing something about celebrating the ...

Every year on March twenty-fifth, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Jesus in the womb of the sinless young woman of Nazareth, Mary.  Every year on today's  date, the Catholic Church celebrates its ...

Today is the feast day of St. Mark, the Evangelist, the author of the second Gospel. Mark was young when Jesus was crucified and resurrected and probably never met Jesus in the flesh.|But he was obviously gifted and tasked ...

PRE-PRAYERING | Finding presents to give is a great adventure, if you love the one to whom you will give the gift. The degree of difficulty depends on the depth of love. A gift for the mailman or business associate is no ...

Today's reading from Luke contains one of the great understatements of all time - Mary, by most accounts a young woman of 15 or so years of age, is visited by an angel and, according to the author, is "greatly disturbed." ...

As we end the third week of advent and prepare to enter the fourth and final week we turn our attention to Luke's accounts of Mary's preparation for the birth. Today we reflect on the shock, joy, confusion, and acceptance ...

PRE-PRAYERING || We begin this last Sunday of Advent with a prayerful spirit of availability. There is still time for us to experience our stillness, our darkness and our desire to be full. We pray with the coming of ...

PRE-PRAYERING | We begin this last Sunday of Advent with a prayerful spirit of availability. There is still time for us to experience our stillness, our darkness and our desire to be full. We pray with the coming of fulfilled ...

The work of any family is to make their house a home. David, in our first reading for this Advent Sunday, feels a bit embarrassed about having his rest in a beautiful palace, while the residence for the Ark of God, dwells ...

A very wise Jesuit priest once listened to me talk about how I pray and asked me, "Where is the focus of your prayer - on you or on God?" I realized that I often prayed for what I wanted from God but rarely prayed to find ...