We celebrate today Mary, the Holy Mother of God . We celebrate the maternity of Mary not only as one of the mysteries of Christmas, but also...

Verse [1] 14: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. 116. Note first the "flesh" here stands for man figuratively, accord...

My departure from the novitiate of the Order of Friars Minor, Holy Name Province (New York), on Christmas Day 1995, quickly became one of th...

Christmas breathes into the world the Love that is the Blessed Trinity. "And God said,....And it was so." (Genesis 1:6a, 7b) E...

(This is the little homily I gave to the remnant of the brethren this morning.) "This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about...h...

I was relieved yesterday by the resolution of a liturgical dubium that had been troubling me. Everyone was acting as if today, December 8, w...

More and more life takes the form of prayer; a path at once obscure and beautiful, dark but on which the next step is usually clear enough, ...