by Greg Beben | Dec 6, 2025 | Meditations
In today’s Gospel we find the first mention of John the Baptist in the Bible. This is also the first time we hear of him in Advent. We will turn to him often throughout this Season, for he is the divinely appointed messenger sent to prepare the way for the coming of...
by Greg Beben | Nov 29, 2025 | Meditations
A blessed new Liturgical Year to all! Today we begin a new Year with the Season of Advent. New beginnings, especially in our journey of faith, offer something exciting and hopeful, a chance to renew and to start over. We enter into Year A, so our Sunday Gospels will...
by Greg Beben | Nov 28, 2025 | Seasonal Introductions
Each Advent we are given the opportunity to begin anew and to enter a deeper place of interior awareness. We not only continue to await the Second Coming of the Lord, but we look forward to celebrating again the birth of the Babe in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago!...
by Greg Beben | Nov 22, 2025 | Meditations
We begin this final week of the Church’s Liturgical Year with the great celebration of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. In our time we are not very familiar with kings. We think of them as something from the past, or at most as figureheads to perform public...
by Greg Beben | Nov 15, 2025 | Meditations
The world strives and struggles to build many structures and make many improvements. However, anything that is not done in God and for God cannot last. All that is of earth will finally come to an end. Only God and his will and all who are in his will can remain...