by Greg Beben | Dec 31, 2025 | Meditations
On this first day of the new year, the Church focuses our attention on Mary, the Mother of God. Why is this? As our Sunday meditation told us, the spiritual life is a continual interplay of God’s action and our response. God is always acting to bring us into union...
by Greg Beben | Dec 27, 2025 | Meditations
With today’s Feast in honor of the Holy Family, we continue our celebration of the Octave of Christmas. The whole Octave is meant to be seen as one day, in which we return again and again to stand before the manger, gazing with wonder and joy at the infant Jesus,...
by Greg Beben | Dec 24, 2025 | Meditations
The Christmas mystery is too profound to be limited to a single celebration. The Church dedicates four distinct liturgies to this feast, full of Scriptures for us to ponder. Then she extends the Christmas celebration throughout a joyful Octave. In our prayer, in...
by Greg Beben | Dec 23, 2025 | Seasonal Introductions
The Christmas Season takes its direction from the splendor of the light of Christ, which breaks into our Advent darkness with the three liturgical celebrations on Christmas Day. We then proceed into the Octave, which contains numerous feasts. There is an intensity of...
by Greg Beben | Dec 20, 2025 | Meditations
In the final days of Advent, the Scripture readings of the weekday liturgies often overlap with the readings of the Sundays. Today we return to two of the most important Advent passages, the prophecy given to the resistant King Ahaz, and the difficult challenge...
