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Holidays and Holy Days

Here you will find musings related to Advent and Lent, Christmas and Easter along with reflections prompted by holidays like Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, and the onset of summer. It’s also a place for thoughts on Holy Days and related topics like the communion of Saints and the Sacraments. Posts  are  pictured  with  the  most  recent  first.  Look  for  season-related  series  or  start  with  one  of  these  popular  reflections:

  • 5 Thanksgiving Psalms to Pray This Week
  • 40 Days in the Word: 3 Ways to Add Scripture to Your Lenten “Diet”
  • Praying with the Penitential Psalms
  • Find Peace This Advent
  • The Jesse Tree: An Advent Tradition for the Whole Family

 

RETURNING TO GOD…AND PRAYERS FOR UKRAINE
My heart is breaking over events in Ukraine. As I continue to meditate on the readings from Ash Wednesday, I’m drawn over and over to Joel 2:12–13— “Yet even now,” says the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning…” Joel is crying to a people crushed by an invader the way Ukraine is ...
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Ash Wednesday ashes on forehead with "Return" in large type
RETURN: GOD IS CALLING YOU!
"Even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart…” (Joel 2:12) “Return.” The whole idea behind “returning” somewhere is that you go back to where you were before. And in the case of returning to God, even if you have never loved or followed him, he has always loved you. Before you were even born, he had ...
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ADVENT: WAITING FOR JOY
“Behold, I am coming soon.” He says it twice in one chapter (Revelation 22:7,12). Really, Lord? I have to ask. Two thousand years and counting … “soon”? And he repeats it: “Surely I am coming soon” (vs 20). Come, Lord Jesus! my heart cries out. Come! Please! It’s not easy to wait, especially in our need. But Advent plunges us into ...
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Come Lord Jesus
COME, LORD JESUS! — 1st Sunday of Advent
Advent is not a simple season. Its four weeks are full of festive preparation, yet it’s a penitential time as well. Along the way, it asks us to hold in balance three separate “comings”: The coming long ago of Jesus to earth, born as a child in Bethlehem His coming at the end of time in joy and glory, preceded ...
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The REALLY True Meaning of Christmas
There are lots of good books on the meaning of Christmas, and it’s not often I come across something new. But here at the heart of Michael Patrick Barber’s new book, The True Meaning of Christmas, is a gem we all should keep in mind as we approach our celebration of the birth of our Lord: Just as we shouldn’t ...
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Good Friday, Holy Saturday; ENTERING THE DARK AND THE SILENCE
Today we enter the darkness. We feel the betrayal of Judas, then stand at a distance with Peter, deny Jesus ourselves.  Like Peter, we are afraid.  What use is there, for all this suffering? On Good Friday, we enter into it.  We stand horrified beside the cross.  "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" We are crushed by the ...
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Palm Sunday: ENTERING THE NEW COVENANT
Readings for Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. At the Procession with Palms:  Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16.  At the Mass:  Isa 50:4-7; Psa 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1 – 15:47.  My most vivid childhood memory of Easter is the Palm Sunday morning we visited a community of religious sisters.  I must have been six or seven years ...
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5th Sunday of Lent: ANNOUNCING THE NEW COVENANT
Readings for the 5th Sunday of Lent:  Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:3-4, 12-15; Heb 5:7-9; Jn 12:20-33 (if you hear different readings, your parish may be using the Year A readings that go with the Scrutinies for RCIA) The night before I turned sixteen, I couldn’t sleep for crying.   High school wasn’t easy for me.  Not the work so much; it ...
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4th Sunday of Lent: CALLED BACK TO COVENANT
Readings for the 4th Sunday of Lent:  2 Chr 36:14-16,19-23; Ps 137:1-6; Eph 2:4-10; Jn 3:14-21 (if you hear different readings, your parish may be using the Year A readings that go with the Scrutinies for RCIA) The honeymoon didn’t last long. In fact, it hadn’t even started.  The people were still wearing their wedding clothes, for crying out loud; God ...
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