Feast of the Epiphany

Feast of the Epiphany

The Adoration of the Magi. Pietro Perugino, 1442-1523. Italy. St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote, just 30 years or so after Matthew’s gospel waswritten, that the magi’s star was the sign that with the coming of the Christ allmagic was at an end.In the end,...
Christmas

Christmas

It is part of the Christian tradition that Christ was born in the night. The life=giving truth oftencomes to human beings in some kind of mental night as they endure and try to understand it.The night is the dark side of life in which the familiar shape of our world...
Christmas

Christmas Eve – Fourth Sunday of Advent

When people say that life, or their life, has a meaning we conclude that they have adopted acertain view of life which brings order into their experience. It proposes values for their rationalaspiration that excite their commitment. It enables them to act freely and...
Christmas

December 23 2023 -O Antiphon O Emanuel

You can hear the antiphon sung in Latin here, along with the Magnificat: O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver,the hope of the nations and their saviour,come and save us, O Lord our God.O Emmanuel (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23)Our king and our lawgiver (Isaiah 32:22,...