This is my prayer: that your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.” In St. Paul’s words to the Philippians, we are reminded that Advent...
Let all mortal flesh keep silence, And with fear and trembling stand; Ponder nothing earthly minded, For with blessing in His hand, Christ our God to earth descendeth, Our full homage to demand. The popularity of Christmas music is due in great part to human...
For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice. The Declaration of Independence speaks of our right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Nearly 250 years after those...
This one offered one sacrifice for sins, and took his seat forever at the right hand of God Once again, the second reading is taken from the Letter to the Hebrews. In this week’s text, the author contrasts the priests in the Temple, who offered sacrifices every day,...
Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf. In today’s second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews, the author describes the “sanctuary” of the Temple in Jerusalem...
“She-ma yisrael, adonai eloheinu, adonai echad” – “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone!” The first commandment, which Jesus offers in response to the scribe in today’s Gospel, comes from a passage in today’s first reading from the Book of Deuteronomy....
