Fresco of the Proclamation of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX during the First Vatican Council. (Credit: [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons.) Listen This weekend, the Church gives us a double ...

Advent, the season leading up to Christmas, is a time of preparation for the arrival of the Christ child in many Christian churches. There are four weeks, four Sundays of Advent, and this Sunday is ...

Advent reminds us that our faith is contagious. We have everything we need inside our hearts to receive and share God’s love and light. We just have to honor the promise of our faith to do so. But ...

Today is the Second Sunday of Advent. What’s the line that sticks with you? Is it “Prepare ye the way of the Lord!” or “Every valley shall be exalted”? That might be the test of whether you are more a ...

Entering more deeply into the season of Advent, we are invited to consider who is this person Jesus whom we celebrate during this season. The Gospel at Mass today is the beginning of the Gospel of ...