December 2021

On the socks friends gifted me for Christmas is boldly printed “I am here” with the red marker seen in digital map apps. As soon as I saw them, I thought of Christmas. For with the birth of Christ, God is saying, “I Am (…)
There between an ox and a grey donkey Sleep, sleep, sleeps The Little Son One thousand divine angels, a thousand seraphim (They) fly around this great God of love. I imagine that if a children’s choir began to sing this very old Christmas hymn: (…)
A Dialogue with with Fr. Joachim Ostermann on the YouTube channel WhyKnowledgeMatters. (…)
As we move into these final days of Advent, we turn our attention to Elizabeth and Zechariah, to Mary and Joseph and to their stories. Each of them offers us an insight into our journey of faith and our relationships with others. Elizabeth reminds (…)
From the personal records of Fr. Oswald Fuchs, there is a Christmas reflection he wrote in 1991 about the first time he had to chance to go back to his hometown of Sedley to preach a homily: Sedley Revisited (The little Fuchs goes home (…)
John the Baptist is a dominate figure in Advent. His call to “prepare the way of the Lord” based on the prophets before him is the whole premise of the season. He awakens us to the work of this preparing: aligning our (…)