by Greg Beben | Dec 24, 2024 | Meditations
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light! (Is 9:1). The long Advent wait is over, and the promised Messiah has come into the world. This feast of Christmas is so important that there are four liturgies to celebrate this day. The Vigil Mass, the Mass...
by Greg Beben | Dec 30, 2023 | Meditations
During this Octave of Christmas, we rejoice and celebrate the arrival of Jesus, the Son of God. He has entered into time, into human history and culture, taking upon himself all that is human, to transform it all and to give it meaning. He has entered into the human...
by Greg Beben | Dec 24, 2023 | Meditations
Glory to God in the highest! Today a Child is born. Although he looks like any one of the countless millions of unnoticed, poor children born into the world, he is no ordinary child! This is God himself who has come as our Savior! His coming is announced by an angel...
by Greg Beben | Dec 22, 2023 | 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 | Jan 7, 2023 | Meditations
The first reading for today’s Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord gives us these striking lines: “Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you. See, darkness covers the earth, and thick clouds cover the peoples; but upon...
