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...
by Greg Beben | Dec 13, 2025 | Meditations
This beautiful season of preparation teaches us how to combine two dispositions that balance each other. On one hand, we are filled with joyful anticipation, for “the coming of the Lord is at hand.” On the other hand, we wait in patience, for we do not know when the...
