Advent
Anticipating the Lord
By Michelle Francl-Donnay O Lord, we look to you; your name and your title are the desire of our souls. My soul yearns for you in the night, yes, my spirit within me keeps vigil for you. — Isaiah 26:8b-9a. I’ve been suffering from an ear worm all afternoon, five measures of music that I […]
Pope Benedict XVI’s Advent reflections
December 5Second Sunday of Advent Readings: Is. 11:1-10; Rom. 15:4-9; Mt. 3:1-12 Justice shall be the band around his waist, and faithfulness a belt upon his hips. Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall browse together, […]
Christ, be our light
By Michelle Francl-Donnay Anguish has taken wing, dispelled is darkness: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. – Is. 8:23a, 9:2 {{more}} In the last six weeks I’ve been half way round the world and back again. The trip was amazing. I took walks in the jungle where lizards the size […]
Advent 2010
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Toward an encounter with God incarnate
By Michelle Francl-Donnay Lift up your eyes and look. For who made the stars but He who drills them like an army calling each one by name. So mighty is His power, so great His strength, that not one fails to answer. – Isaiah 40:26 “Why does this time of year have to be so […]
Pope Benedict XVI’s Advent reflections
November 28First Sunday of Advent {{more}} Readings: Is. 2:1-5; Rom 13:11-14; Mt. 24:37-44 “Come, let us climb the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” – Is. 2:3 Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, […]
Pope Benedict XVI’s Advent reflections
December 19, 2010Fourth Sunday of Advent Readings: Is. 7:10-14; Rom. 1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24 {{more}} Through him we have received the grace of apostleship, to bring about the obedience of faith, for the sake of his name, among all the Gentiles, among whom are you also, who are called to belong to Jesus Christ; to all […]
At the Langhorne Monastery of St. Clare: ‘Our whole life is the Liturgy of the Hours’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T The lives of cloistered religious, whether they be monks or nuns, may be described by a single word – prayer. It is their constant. Prayer is not the interlude between work to sustain the abbey, or eating, or sleeping or recreation. Those are the interludes between prayers. Its most […]
Liturgy of the Hours: Praying with the whole church
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T When young men arrive at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary to begin the long process of continued discernment and formation for the priesthood, they are probably aware that all priests pray daily from their breviary. What they may not then know is this daily prayer is really the Liturgy of […]
Pope: Keep track of your blessings during Advent
By Cindy WoodenCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY – Advent should be a time when Christians keep track of the little blessings they receive each day, blessings that are signs of God’s love, Pope Benedict XVI suggested. “To keep a kind of ‘inner diary’ of this love would be a beautiful and healthy task,” the Pope […]