If we are honest, to hear is to disobey, particularly if God’s words do not comport with our own plans.

None of us truly understands what it means that “the Son of Man will come.”

Fr. James Martin, S.J., writes "desire is a key way that God speaks to us, whether in Advent or the rest of the year."

When I think about the Holy Family I remember other holy families as well, the ones who brought me up in the faith, who showed me how to love and who taught me how to celebrate Christmas.