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The Good Word
John W. Martens
Last year I posted on the readings for The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary which caused a stir I did not expect when I argued that the biblical readings alone do not lead necessarily to the Church s teaching on the Immaculate Conception of Mary but that Tradition is essential for this u
The Good Word
John W. Martens
We are in the midst of Hanukkah the Jewish Festival of Lights which is celebrated beginning on the 25th of the Jewish month of Chislev for eight days This year the Festival which falls in late November to late December in our calendar is celebrated from December 1-9 This festival commemorates
The Good Word
Tim Reidy
Regular readers will recall that America published a special issue on the Bishops Synod on the Middle East in October Here we offer a reflection from one of the bishops who took part in the meeting Gregory Mansour Eparch of the Eparchy of Saint Maron The task before him was great but only Pete
The Good Word
John W. Martens
For those of you with children you might want to check out this online and interactive Advent calendar that I located through a link on the Herald of Scotland website It has the 24 days of December prior to Christmas day on the calendar with information on typical Christmas symbols such as reinde
The Good Word
John W. Martens
John the Baptist is a bracing sort of fellow eye-opening and not in the slap some Brut on the face kind of way In another blog post we will have to explore how it is that Brut has made a comeback ndash before you say anything it is related to Advent after all as those of us who grew up buyi
The Good Word
John W. Martens
One interesting thing I found poking around the Common English Bible website was an Advent Blog Tour There are 25 bloggers each writing on a particular scripture passage for each day of December until Christmas Day None of these bloggers are Catholic and the Scripture passages on which they are c