Warmest Christmas greetings! We're entering our second Christmas since the COVID pandemic began in March 2020. And like last year, we're doing so with the combined optimism from vaccines and concern from a winter surge with a new variant. We have lived through a long season of frustration, …
Christmas
A Word: Saint Stephen’s Way of Love
Stephen sets our Christmas journey toward Jesus’s way of love by reminding us of the challenge of tradition and nostalgia. Following his following JesusThe Feast of Stephen Sam Portaro’s reflection from Brightest and Best rises to the central challenge of the Incarnation, and I …
A Christmas Message
Many centuries ago, communities would gather to pray. They observed that the days grew shorter; the night was winning. Perhaps soon the day would disappear entirely. So people gathered during these long nights and they would pray for the light to come again. Long before Christ entered the …