• Almost Christmas!

  December 16, 2023

  Looking back at my last post on September 30, I was saying it was almost October. Well, now it’s almost Christmas! Wow! This tells me two things: First, that I don’t update this blog very often! Second, that time is moving faster than fast these days!! So, given that, I hope your Christmas preparations are […]

• 11 Days ‘Till Christmas

  December 14, 2022

  There are now only 11 days until Christmas, one day fewer than yesterday! But how the time creeps by. If only it were now.

• 12 Days ‘Till Christmas!

  December 13, 2022

  There are only 12 days until Christmas, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! If you’re not already deep into preparations for the arrival of the King, delay no longer and begin now.

• Fourth Sunday of Advent

  December 20, 2020

  Today begins the fourth and final week of Advent. On Christmas Eve at sundown or Vespers, we enter into Chrismastime or Christmastide. In this final stretch before the great feast of the Nativity of the Lord, we should be filled with hope. But what is hope and why should we have it now? According to […]

• Third Sunday of Advent

  December 13, 2020

  Today begins the third Sunday of Advent called Gaudete (Latin for “rejoice”) Sunday. The Church prescribes rose colored vestments today and on the third Sunday of Lent. The great feast of Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, nears, only 12 days to go! That is a cause of rejoicing, indeed! This week is also the […]

• Second Sunday of Advent

  December 6, 2020

  In the Gospel this Sunday, John the Baptist’s disciples seek out Jesus to ask if He is the One that is to come or should we expect another. Jesus replies in the language of the prophets of old: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise, and […]

• First Sunday of Advent

  November 29, 2020

  Advent, a season of waiting, preparing, and hoping begins! Waiting for what? Waiting for Jesus to come at Christmas! But he already came, right? Yes, in history he came, and he will come again like he promised. But liturgically, we relive his first coming (the first Advent), and we anticipate with joy his second coming […]

• Advent is Near

  November 24, 2020

  Take heed. The liturgical season of Advent begins Sunday, November 29 (just five days from today). That day begins a new church year with the First Sunday of Advent. Advent celebrates both the first Advent of Jesus as the God-Man in the incarnation as well as the second Advent of Jesus as the just judge […]