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by bcadmin | Dec 25, 2021 | Angels, Blessed Virgin Mary, Calendar & Seasons, Christmas, Featured, Holy Family, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Merry Christmas, Nativity of the Lord, News, Shepherds, St. Joseph | 0 |
“I am with you always, to the close of the age.” (Matthew 28:20) Merry Christmas! I love holidays. I love family. The two just seem to go together, don’t they? Some holidays are joyful gatherings, some not so much. We are all too human, as the saying g…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 17, 2021 | Calendar & Seasons, Featured, Jesus Christ, Lent, News, Regular Feature | 0 |
Lent is supposed to be a season of a successful journey through the desert of penance to a new land and a new, deeper, intimacy with God. But often, we find ourselves going back to the same old Lenten pathways of past years and end up getting nowhere. …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | Calendar & Seasons, Catholic Church, challenges, Christmas, conversion, courage, Culture, Featured, God, Jesus Christ, News, Prayer, Sacraments, siren call, surrender, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King! Merry Christmas! It is a wonderful time as we celebrate our Savior’s birth with friends and loved ones. It is also an appropriate time to focus on what is most important and reject the …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2020 | Advent, anticipating, Calendar & Seasons, Carmelite, Featured, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, News, Prayer & Spiritual Life, preparation, Spiritual Life, Spirituality, waiting, watchfulness | 0 |
Advent in Carmel To experience Advent in Carmel is to enter into a rarified atmosphere that is filled to the brim with Carmel’s living legacy of Advent customs and observances. My first Advent in Carmel remains fresh in my memory today, still as vibran…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 29, 2020 | Advent, Angels, anticipating, Calendar & Seasons, Featured, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, manger, nativity scene, News, penitential, preparation, repentance, waiting, watchfulness | 0 |
If we lose our focus on the Lord, neither his coming in past history, nor his coming at the end of time will have much meaning for us. We will be like the people who Isaiah describes, “There is no one that calls upon thy name, that bestirs himself to t…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | All Soul's Day, attachments, Calendar & Seasons, Catholic Church, Doctrine, Faith, Featured, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, News, Purgatory, Redemption | 0 |
I’ll never forget that bleak January day when my father died. It was very hard to believe in the resurrection as I watched the undertakers carry away his lifeless corpse in a body bag. But imagine this scene. You are an unborn child who has lived in …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2020 | Assumption of Mary, Blessed Virgin Mary, Calendar & Seasons, Doctrine, Dormition, Featured, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Marian dogmas, News | 0 |
On August 15th of each Liturgical Year, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the United States, the Assumption is a Holy Day of Obligation unless it falls on a Saturday or Monday, in which…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 9, 2020 | Calendar & Seasons, Carmelite, Daily Reflection, Easter, Featured, Holy Thursday, Holy Triduum, meditation, News, Prayer & Spiritual Life, prayer life, silence, Solitude, Spiritual Life | 0 |
It caught me by surprise that the Carmelite Sisters keep a complete and prayerful silence during the Holy Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, not speaking until the conclusion of the evening Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday. I r…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Calendar & Seasons, Catholic Church, charity, compassion, Faith, Featured, Jesus Christ, Light of the World, Living the Faith, News, Regular Feature, salt of the earth, Scripture, suffering | 0 |
In 2005 while undergoing chemotherapy, I was sitting in an uncomfortable recliner on the sixth floor of the medical facility. An IV dripped poison into my veins that would simultaneously cure me of the cancer in my body, and wreak havoc on it, sending …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 25, 2020 | Calendar & Seasons, Catholic Church, conversion, Featured, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, Lent, News, Prayer & Spiritual Life, Saints, Spiritual Life | 0 |
“…if anyone wishes to seriously exercise the spiritual life, he had better know that the company of people that hold our own faith and worship in our own churches is a most difficult company to keep. And we ought not to pretend we can follow God …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | Calendar & Seasons, Featured, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, liturgical year, Living the Faith, News, Ordinary Time | 0 |
Candlemas and the Presentation of the Lord have already arrived! Christmas Day was forty days ago. We’ve been in the season of Ordinary Time on the liturgical calendar for three weeks. Before we know it, Lent will be upon us. That’s what happens in thi…
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