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by bcadmin | Dec 17, 2021 | Advent, Between the Sundays, Christmas, covenant, Featured, genealogies, genealogy, Gospel of Matthew, Jesus Christ, Living the Faith, News, Old Testament, promise, waiting | 0 |
“In this beginning of Matthew’s story, they hear much more than a list of names.” Today begins the octave before Christmas. While octaves following important feast days (Easter, Christmas, Pentecost) are an important part of our liturgic…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, Advent, Bible, Jesus Christ, News, Prayer, Sacred Scripture, waiting | 0 |
Image: Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash We should each make one firm decision right now, even before we finish reading this reflection. Let us all agree that we are going to make this the single best Advent of our entire lives. Go ahead, just sa…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 17, 2020 | Advent, Carmelite, expectations, Faith, family, Featured, God, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, Liturgical Colors, liturgical year, Living the Faith, News, Prayer, waiting, watching | 0 |
Every day we look forward to the gift of another dawn as the sun begins to peek through the curtain of the night to bring the vibrancy of color back to us yet again. It is a ritual of sorts, isn’t it? When the first blush of the dawn greets the dark cl…
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 | Dec 4, 2020 | Advent, Between the Sundays, Christmas, consolation, COVID-19, darkness, expectation, expectations, fear, Featured, grace, Living the Faith, News, peace, Salvation, waiting | 0 |
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by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Advent, alert, Featured, Gospel, Jesus Christ, News, Saints, Scripture, St. Mark, Sunday Scripture Reflections, vigilance, waiting, watchfulness | 0 |
During a time when parties and endless carols dull our spiritual senses, the message of Advent urges to wake up and be alert and vigilant. Our society is asleep spiritually. Here are some ideas to rouse ourselves, our famlies and our neighbors to a p…
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 | Jul 3, 2020 | Abortion, Abortion law, Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, diocese of Davenport, Iowa, Iowa Catholic Conference, News, the pro-life movement, waiting | 0 |
A Johnson County district court judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of the state’s new law requiring women to wait 24 hours before having an abortion, the Iowa Catholic Conference reported July 1.
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