“As religious people, we struggle, we see hard things happen, horrible things happen in this world. And our job is to figure out: How do you reconcile and keep going on within that?”

A Reflection for Monday of the Second Week of Advent, by Sebastian Gomes

This week on “Preach,” the script is flipped: Ricardo da Silva, S.J., the regular host, becomes a guest preacher, and Maggi Van Dorn, a usual producer, takes the mic as the host. Ricardo invites listeners to identify where they have experienced joy, even as he admits that we live in a world where joy is hard to come by.

A Reflection for Saturday of the First Week of Advent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

A Reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent, by James T. Keane

My mom and I decided to start a new Christmas tradition—reading a chapter of the Christmas classic by our fireplace every night leading up to Christmas Day.

A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Jill Rice

“Catch Me If You Can” returns to Christmas again and again, like a scab it can’t stop scratching.

A Homily for the Second Sunday of Advent, by Father Terrance Klein