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What are you doing this week to make Christmas holy? I have to admit, I started the novena to the Infant Jesus one day late, then forgot the second day. So I’m not doing that one. I need to refocus (again, didn’t I just do that Friday?) on the point of the holiday. Join [...]
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A friend was told by a priest once that she needed not an hour of adoration, but an hour and fifteen minutes of adoration every week. Why? This is the most interesting answer I’ve ever heard, and I think of it often when I am sitting in the Presence of our Lord, distracted as all [...]
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How’s your hay? We are one week away from Christmas, and rather than getting caught up in counting the shopping days we have left, I need to focus on the days for hay-gathering. It’s time to recommit to making little acts of sacrifice, kindness and generosity each day of Advent. To give gifts to the [...]
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We’re rather used to reading personification in our fiction, where animals and objects take on human qualities like talking, seeing, and even feeling emotions. It probably doesn’t give you pause to read about the stars “seeing” the Christ Child laying in a manger filled with hay. If you take a moment to ponder what looking [...]
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St. Therese of the Child Jesus, a saint of just over 100 years ago, wrote often of her “Little Way”. She believed that doing simple, everyday tasks for love of Christ and love of souls is the way for most of us to worship Jesus, the King. She had a special heart for the Infant [...]
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One of the first things that new parents worry about is where the baby will sleep (and how the baby will sleep). How many books are there on the market about babies’ sleep habits and parents’ struggles with them? It is compelling that the Son of God was born with no crib, no proper nursery [...]
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