by Adam | 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 Adam | 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 The Exodus Team | 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 Adam | 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...
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