by Derek Cummins | Nov 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
1. Assess your priorities. Advent is a time of preparation to welcome the Messiah anew into our hearts. But in order to welcome him and receive that peace and freedom that only he can give us, we must prepare our hearts for his coming. Come Christmas, will we receive...
by Derek Cummins | Nov 29, 2023 | Advent, Our Team Picks
The following is an excerpt from “On the Incarnation” by St. Athanasius the Great So then, men having thus become brutalized, and demoniacal deceit thus clouding every place, and hiding the knowledge of the true God, what was God to do? To keep still...
by Jacob Zepp | Nov 29, 2023 | Advent, Feast Days, Our Team Picks
On December 6th, we celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas, a.k.a. Santa Claus. As you may have expected, St. Nicolas’s story neither begins at the North Pole nor in Sombertown. Rather, it begins in the city of Myra, located in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). Nicolas was...
by Jacob Laskowski | Nov 29, 2023 | Advent
Bishop Thomas John Paprocki Paprocki is the ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois (installed on June 22, 2010). Growing up in Chicago, he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1978. After ordination, he studied law at DePaul...
by Jacob Laskowski | Nov 28, 2023 | Exodus 90, Fraternity
It is not difficult to become a saint. When Jan Tyranowski first heard those words, he was sitting in a pew at Mass. It was during that Sunday homily that his life changed forever — and so did the Church. He began to study the lives of the saints — and St John of the...
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