Month: December 2018
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60-Second Sermon-Second Sunday of Advent
Kathleen Norris reflects on the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Advent. Roman/RCL: Luke 3: 1-6
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Second Sunday of Advent
Our readings for the Second Sunday of Advent this year remind us that the Advent of the Messiah is the Advent of justice and joy.
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What to make of the Advent Wreath, or When the periphery moves to the center
The great Robert Taft, SJ (only recently having passed on to another shore where he now stands in a greater Light) famously reminded us that the “soft points” in the liturgy (points of transition) are magnets for accretions, sticky places that easily caught the passing whims and creative endeavors of priests and practitioners on its…
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Keeping together
Do you have a time-lag in your church? Do you find the music somehow getting slower and slower?
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on the First Sunday of Advent
…in these days such apocalyptic readings remind us that humanity has upturned God’s created order that in our violence and greed we have allowed the aboriginal chaos to return that in our racism and xenophobia
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Fr. Don’s Daily Reflections – December 2
New! Profound reflections from the monastery each day of December.
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Christmas and Partaking of Christ’s Pascha
The most holy word of all, the one we hear at our liturgy, is connected to both human suffering and the fundamental problem of death.
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60-Second Sermon-Immaculate Conception
Sr. Jeana Visel, OSB reflects on the Gospel for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. Reading: Luke 1:26-38