Jubilee 2025 officially begins the day after Christmas. Be sure to plan and post the special ways your parish will be commemorating the Jubilee theme, "Pilgrims of Hope."

In his final public address, the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin said, “A dying person does not have time for the peripheral or the accidental. He or she is drawn to the essential, the important.”

My grandfather from Austria used to play a little game with us when we were small. He'd walk his fingers up our arms like a spider, repeating a soft chant in his native language: El camina, el camina . . . which means "coming, coming" but doesn't say precisely what's coming.

It’s hard to imagine the end-of-the-world cataclysm described by Jesus in Luke’s gospel. A glimpse comes from the 2019 film Don’t Look Up.

It had been a very difficult day at work, a day filled with anxieties and conflicts and much uncertainty. I felt the weight of the world on my shoulders.

As we prepare for the coming of the Lord, let us acknowledge our sins and ask the Lord for forgiveness.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. 

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