By Kitty Mandis | Marriage Preparation Coordinator, Office of Laity & Family Life How do you keep the music playing? How do you make it last? These first two lines from a song made famous by James Ingram and Patti Austin in 1983 are questions that all couples face when adversity Read More
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Mercy and the Holy Family
On this day of Christmas, my True Lord gave to me—the Feast of the Holy Family! Not only is today the annual celebration of this special day honoring Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as the exemplary “domestic church,” the church of the home, but this year, the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Read More
Season of Advent, Year of Mercy
Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus! Kyrie Eleison! Lord, Have Mercy! We have endured news of so much violence and hate in recent weeks, near and far, with the presence of terrorism lurking here on the home-front. All this is happening as we Catholics experience our annual encounter with the Church’s Season Read More
Church as Home, Home as Church
“…All I know is I’m not home yet This is not where I belong Take this world and give me Jesus This is not where I belong…” (song by Building 429, “Where I Belong”) “Our hearts are restless until they rest in You, O Lord…” (St. Augustine of Hippo) Hello, Read More