I came back from the Christmas break to find a link to this lovely reflection in my mailbox. It’s by Maureen McCann Waldron, who blogs here regularly. Happy New Year to all!
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Christmas
We conclude our seasonal retreat with one final week-starter reflection. In the coming days, take a few moments to evaluate your experience with the entire Advent and Christmas retreat. Perhaps you would like to share something at this time in the comments. Thank you for your participation in this retreat. Christmas Time, Second Week: The [...]
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Merry Christmas! We continue our seasonal retreat by reflecting on Christmas. Please share your retreat experience with others here in the comments. Christmas Time, First Week: Jesus Is Light in the Darkness. Petition: Ask for the grace to receive Jesus, the Savior, as the light of our path. A first-century philosopher observed: “When I light [...]
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The moment my son, Brady, was first placed into my arms everything changed. As I gazed into his tiny eyes, stroked his peach fuzz hair, and snuggled new life, I knew my life would never be the same. I knew my life would be consumed with loving him, and I knew, as I held him, [...]
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The feast of Epiphany today brings the Christmas season to an end. To mark the day, here’s a litany called “Now the Work of Christmas Begins” composed by Howard Thurman, an African-American theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when [...]
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We conclude our seasonal retreat with one final week-starter reflection. In the coming days, take a few moments to evaluate your experience with the entire Advent and Christmas retreat. Perhaps you would like to share something at this time in the comments. Thank you for your participation in this retreat. Christmas Time, Second Week: The [...]
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Merry Christmas! We continue our seasonal retreat by reflecting on Christmas. Please share your retreat experience with others here in the comments. Christmas Time, First Week: Jesus Is Light in the Darkness. Petition: Ask for the grace to receive Jesus, the Savior, as the light of our path. Jesus is here! We now have a [...]
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Where is Christ being born today? It certainly isn’t where we expect, if history is any guide. Where, today, is that stable at the obscure roadside inn in the little backwoods burgh? Perhaps it is in Malawi, where Ambition’s imagination shapes clay like the hands of God. Perhaps it is in your town. He is [...]
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In the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius encourages us to pray with our imaginations. He suggests we enter into the nativity scene in our mind’s eye, seeing the rough timbers of the stalls, smelling the animals and the hay; listening to the soft murmurs of conversation between Mary and Joseph in the stable. He knew that [...]
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Let us seek the grace of a cheerful heart, an even temper, sweetness, gentleness, and brightness of mind, as walking in His light, and by His grace. Let us pray Him to give us the spirit of ever-abundant, ever-springing love, which overpowers and sweeps away the vexations of life by its own richness and strength, [...]
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