ADVENTCAzT 2021: 27 – Vigil of Christmas: “This Day is like Thyself”
One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. Today Dom Prosper Gueranger presents thoughts of St. Ephrem the Syrian about how Christmas accompanies us for our whole lives. Fr. Troadec explains a humble image. Fr. John … Read More →
Light from Light: the Eternal Word Made Speechless Flesh
These are busy days so let’s plunge right in. Here are a few fast points to enrich your participation at Holy Mass for Christmas and for the Sunday in the Christmas Octave, back to back this year, in the Vetus Ordo, the Traditional Roman Mass, the Mass of our forebears which gave shape to all […]
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Sermon of St. Augustine on Christmas Day
Christ lowered Himself not for His own personal advantage but for our good; in order to justify us and give us peace and happiness.
Full Text: Pope Francis’ Christmas homily
Pope Francis offers Christmas Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 2021 / Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 24, 2021 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Below is the full text of Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, delivered Dec. 24, 2021 in St. Peter’s Basilica. In the darkness, a […]
‘Coal for Christmas’ aims at saving 5,000 Afghan families from freezing and starving
Refugee children in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 1, 2021. / Shutterstock Denver Newsroom, Dec 24, 2021 / 08:16 am (CNA). As the winter in Afghanistan is provoking the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, The Vulnerable People Project is get… […]
Opinion: Realism and rule of law essential for addressing border crisis
On Dec. 3, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced their disappointment in the Biden administration’s decision to comply with a court order to reinstate former President Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known […]
Open Letter to Confused Catholics: Chapter 12
“Comrades and Fellow Travelers” Among all the documents of the Council, it was the schema on religious liberty which led to the most acrimonious Let us take up where we left off. Christian common sense is offended in every way by this new religion. Catholics are exposed to desacralization on all sides; everything has been […]
Pope at Christmas: ‘God comes into the world in littleness’
The celebration of Christmas serves as a reminder that God did not reveal his greatness in a grand spectacle, but rather in the “littleness” of a poor, vulnerable child born in a stable in Bethlehem, Pope Francis said. “Let us be amazed by this scandalous truth,” the pope said in his homily Dec. 24 as […]
We live in a time of persecution, but the hope of Christmas can guide us through
We can find solace for our trials by turning to the Church’s Divine Office.