THE GIFT OF SELF Epiphany 2012 We love to receive gifts. But we also enjoy giving them away. I plan my gifts by the middle of the year and I still give gifts until…
RELEASING YOUR COLLECTION OF BAGGAGE New Year 2012 A delivery package arrived last week with a carved wooden car inside. It is a collector’s item because it was made by a highly-skilled and famous young Filipino carver from…
AND SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS… “What is Christmas?” – we are always asked. What is its real meaning in a world that speaks only of the commercial value of this great Christian holy day? There…
POPE BENEDICT XVI ON CHRISTMAS God’s sign is his humility. God’s sign is that he makes himself small; he becomes a child; he lets us touch him and he asks for our love. How we would prefer…
WHY MARY? Advent 4 Today we revisit the biblical account of the Annunciation and we encounter the figure of Mary, the maiden of Nazareth, again. Why is Mary important in our approach to Christmas? Is it just…