Make Ready for the Christ by Fran Salone-Pelletier

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"This birth is most significant, even for doubters. It is the one unique nativity that effects the transformation and transfiguration of all creation."

The Working Catholic: Advent, Part II by William Droel

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This holy season is designed to reinforce behavior that should occur all year long. The second in a series of Advent reflections.

“May Dew Descend from Heaven”: An Advent Reflection by Michael Ford

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A visit with Benedictine abbess Mother Paula Fairlie, who has always been drawn to the season of Advent.

The Human Deed: An Advent Meditation by Edward R. Burns

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The Incarnation reminds us that authentic Christian faith must always be rooted in the lives and needs of ordinary human beings.

Healing in a Time of Trouble by Susan K. Roll

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The 17th-century Jesuit priest Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld remains a hero of the women's ordination movement.

The Worst of Times Can Be the Best of Times by Fran Salone-Pelletier

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"Now I was being asked to practice the faith of receiving, trusting that dependency and vulnerability were open pathways to God."

The Meaning of Sacrifice by Ray Temmerman

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Rethinking the concept of sacrifice through its true meaning: to make something or someone holy.

The Working Catholic: Advent by William Droel

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The Incarnation means that God is intimately in our midst, even in places where we don't often think to look.

Two Poems by Salvador Espriu / Translated from the Catalan by Andrew Kaufman and Antonio Cortijo Ocana

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Selections from a visionary Catalan poet whose work has rarely appeared in English.

Labels by Anne Kerrigan

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Fighting prejudice and polarization in our society means leading by an example of love.