Advent Calendar 2019

As we gather at the crib, we become aware once again of the vulnerability of the little baby, lying in ...

Pope Francis turns 83 today Tuesday 17 December and we have a very special Happy Birthday Message for him on ...

The lights of the Christmas tree remind us that Jesus is the light of the world, the light of our ...

As we journey in Advent and look forward to Christmas, we celebrate our joy at the coming of the Lord. ...

“Mary is a mother who contemplates her child and shows Him to every visitor. In her, we see the Mother ...

The word Advent means coming. The Lord is coming. This is the root of our hope: the certainty that God’s ...

May the feast of our Mother Mary Immaculate help us to make  our whole life a “yes” to God, a ...

Let us allow ourselves, then, to teach hope, to faithfully await the coming of the Lord, and whatever desert we ...

Joy, prayer and gratitude, the Holy Father said, are three attitudes that prepare us to live Christmas genuinely. In this ...

Pope Francis tells us that Advent is “an invitation to vigilance, because, not knowing when He will come, we must ...

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Today the Church praises smallness. God’s works begin by sprouting from a seed, from little things. Jesus speaks about this ...

Why does the Christmas crèche arouse such wonder and move us so deeply? First, because it shows God’s tender love: ...

Setting up the Christmas crèche (crib) in our homes helps us to relive the history of what took place in ...

There are two attitudes typical of lukewarm Christians: putting God in a corner – either you do this for me ...

Jesus exhorts us to be ready for His coming: “Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your ...

Today is the First Sunday of Advent. Advent is the season four weeks before Christmas in which we prepare for the ...

Making a crib is like opening the door to our home and saying: “Jesus, come in!”: “If Jesus dwells in ...

Mary was able to turn a stable into a home for Jesus, with poor swaddling clothes and an abundance of ...

Pope Francis reflected on the feast of Christmas, which he said is filled with “the surprises of Jesus.”

Pope Francis’ catechesis ...

This is the final day of Advent. Thank you for sharing the journey with us this Advent on our calendar. ...

Advent has a twofold character, for it is a time of preparation for the Solemnities of Christmas, in which the ...

During Advent, we think of the injustice, the evil, the violence that exists in our time and we pray that ...

Lord Jesus, Master of both the light and the darkness,
send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas.
We who have ...