by Greg Beben | Jun 26, 2025 | Meditations
The Founder of the Anawim Community, Fr. Francis Marino, used to point out that throughout the Liturgical Year there are a number of “companion feasts” – feasts that are closely associated with each other and that mutually enrich each other. One obvious example of...
by Greg Beben | Mar 24, 2025 | Meditations
One of the great blessings of our Catholic faith is the richness of the Liturgy, which brings into our lives again and again the holy people, days, and feasts for us to ponder and experience. Each time a feast day comes again, we have an opportunity to see something...
by Greg Beben | Dec 31, 2024 | Meditations
Today, as we begin a new year, we are especially aware of our existence as creatures who live in time. Another year has passed. For many of us, the years seem to go by ever more quickly. We know that we have a limited time on this earth, and moment by moment our time...
by Greg Beben | Dec 8, 2024 | Meditations
It is most appropriate that we celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception during the Season of Advent because the arrival of Mary is a critical step in the historical preparation for the advent – the coming – of the Messiah, the Redeemer of mankind. From the...
by Greg Beben | Aug 14, 2024 | Meditations
The readings for today’s glorious feast, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, offer us an opportunity to look back into salvation history to an earlier event in Mary’s life, the Visitation, and to the “great sign” in the sky in the Book of Revelation, and to the...
