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Advent 2025
Spirituality
Everyone’s got a job to do when it comes to welcoming Jesus. Sing with a heart as full as if…
Advent 2025
Spirituality

On Christmas Eve, it’s not a carol that comes to my mind, but an aria, though not from Handel’s “Messiah”…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

I’m not going to my grandmother’s house. We live 2,000 miles and two airplanes from our families of origin. There…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

The “Scandal of the Particular” refers to the absurd notion of the Incarnation — the ineffable, infinite, transcendent God breaking…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

There was a time in my life when believing in God was believing in a certainty. As a boy growing…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

The Christmas seasons of my childhood in Ireland were layered with magic and meaning. Families went “visiting” house to house,…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

Some things just strike us. We feel it. Immediately. Like that amazing meal. Or the first time you did that…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

Successful wassailing demands an uncomfortable degree of movement. I’m not talking about the swaying of hips or the smacking of…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

The title of this song — “Easier Said Than Done” — brings to mind conflicting feelings. On the one hand,…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

“Uni trinoque”— “the one in three” — stands as the central mystery around which every Christian feast day dances. In…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

I love Christmas music. Once Thanksgiving is over, my house is constantly filled with the sounds of Bing Crosby, the…

Advent 2025
Spirituality

This one’s for the millennials. I was 9 when my aunt herded me and my cousins up the New York…

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