on December 1. In 2021 I posted at CatholicCulture.orgCelebrating Advent Essentiallywhich highlights key aspects to celebrating the Advent season. This year I’m encouraging families to be even more simple and essential in this busy season. See my post at Catholic Culture:The Simplicity of ...
Church Year Dictionary About Sign In Ordinary Time PrayersWhat is Ordinary Time?Ordinary Time is the season outside of the other major liturgical seasons. It runs immediately after the Christmas season until Lent and then resumes again after Easter season. Its focus is on the entirety of Chri...
We have entered the most solemn and holiest days of the Liturgical Year, Holy Week. As our Lenten journey comes to an end, we enter more fully into the suffering, passion and glory of our most beloved Lord. Now just days away from the Sacred Triduum. We began our week with Palm Sunday...
We grasp this more easily for special seasons of the year. Even though we are sometimes unable to be very attentive to a season like Christmas or Easter because of various pressures and distractions, we know that these seasons are special and that there are “angels” inside them that are a...
In fact, I think, for this very reason, joy might be a bit harder to truly cultivate in times of exuberant happiness. It’s hard during times of grief, as well. I’d much rather go into a season of grief with my joy deeply rooted than to try to grow it during that time. But ...
The day has finally come: The House of Representatives is set to vote on the Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Why then write at all, knowing that the time is not right, that the times are not propitious? Because: Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. (l. 6–9) ...