A Pilgrim's Journey

On the Octave Day of Christmas our thoughts go to the one whose “yes” allowed it all to happen. How well we know the story, which tells us o...

Into our human condition Christ came. Into our tragedies and our sicknesses and our confusions, into our every need, He came. He chose to be...

St. Sylvester was born in Rome and was ordained to the priesthood by Pope St. Marcellinus. This took place during a brief time of peace for ...

St. Thomas was born in London, England around the year 1117. He was the son of pious parents, and his mother converted to Christianity throu...

In the midst of celebrating the incarnation of holy innocence, our joy is tempered by the remembrance of the deaths of the Holy Innocents. A...

The Feast of the Holy Family gives honour to Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and it is an occasion when we remember the importance of every family. ...

Saint Stephen was one of the first ordained deacons of the Church. He is also the first Christian martyr. The Greek word from which we deriv...

Lest the fact of the Incarnation and the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ become something relegated to cards expressing the greetings of t...

Chapel of the Crib at Greccio It was in a grotto at Greccio, on Christmas Eve in 1223, that St. Francis created a crèche depicting the birth...

The prophet Malachi spoke of “a refiner and a purifier of silver.” It was the Messiah to whom he was referring. “He shall sit as a refiner ...

Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a son. And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown g...

O precious Lord, once born for us in stable small and poor; be born again within our hearts, and there let us adore. - As once our Saviour t...

The Gospel for December 21st: In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, and she entered the ho...

The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house ...

From the readings for Mass on December 19th: And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren a...