Sunday, Dec. 19, is the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Mass Readings: Micah 5:1-4a; Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19; Hebrews 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-45. On the Fourth Sunday of Advent we do well to ponder what is ...

Come Lord Jesus be our guest and let these gifts to us be blessed. Amen. It’s a simple prayer that most Christians know, whereby we ask Jesus to be present at our meal, in our homes and in our lives.

We are hours before Christmas. Our Blessed Mother, in luminous celebration as Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Immaculate Conception, is standing close by. In God’s time, she and Joseph, have arrived in ...

Happy (real) new year: the beginning of a new year of grace, which began Dec. 3 with the First Sunday of Advent. “The holidays” so overwhelm our senses each December that it’s hard to remember that ...