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During the Christmas season, we frequently encounter the word “Peace.”  Tonight, we leave the past behind and look toward a new beginning; one of the constant hopes of the human heart is a new year of peace. Read more...

Like the Christ child, each one of us is born into a family with parents. Read more...

The brutality and injustice that marked Herod’s tyrannical reign continue to hold many people captives of fear, oppression, and death. Read more...

On this third day of the Octave of Christmas, St. John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, boldly proclaims the truths of the Incarnation. Read more...

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our brother Fr. Daniel Shanahan, O.P. (1934-2019). Read more...

“For today in the city of David a Savior has been born for you who is Christ the Lord.” The divine became human and entered our world in the form of a helpless baby, to bring us back to God. Read more...

We might think that John the Baptist had it easy, he could literally point others to Jesus. And it can be argued that John the Baptist wasn’t trying to get other people to evangelize, but trying to get others to go to Jesus themselves, to follow Jesus. Read more...

As we set up our crèches, and make our last-minute Christmas preparations, St. Joseph invites us to be open to an unexpected “grace of apostleship” that will enable us to receive an unlikely person into the home of our heart “for the sake of his name, among all the Gentiles.” Read more...

Did you ever wonder why there is a visible joy in the faces of very young persons when they receive communion? Or why an aged priest who has physical limitations suddenly appears more youthful and exuberant while celebrating the Liturgy of the Eucharist? Read more...

God always exceeds our expectations, and there’s no better example than the conception of Jesus in Mary’s womb. Read more...

Whether or not you feel hopeful, you can choose to be hopeful, by choosing to act like a hopeful person. You can choose to stretch forth toward the good thing you desire, even though you know it’s a tough go. Read more...

The remaining time of Advent can be a time to share Christ’s love with someone who has forgotten or become deaf to it, so that through our small acts of prophetic mercy “all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” Read more...