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Here’s the good news for those who’ve just had a baby: You get to take home a bundle of love who will be the apple of your eye for years to come. It's like being born again yourself. Wonder will come to live at your house. Your lineage will continue. The world has a future. Who knows what this child will accomplish? The possibilities of this new life are endless.

When the days stipulated by Moses for purification were complete, they took him up to Jerusalem to offer him to God as commanded in God’s Law

This year, he got a 10-footer, not a bare spot on it. But my mother warned him about his hubris.

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

There’s a cast: a messenger of the Lord; then the Lord himself; Jesus, both as a child and the cosmic high priest; Mary and Joseph;

The information in scripture on Jesus’ childhood is a bit sketchy. At the end of the story of the presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple,

The triumphant Christian does not fight for victory; [they] celebrate . . . a victory already won. —Reginald Wallis