Thursday, December 31, 2009

Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas: "Children, it is the last hour"

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... just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour. -- 1 Jn 2:...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Sixth Day in the Christmas Octave: "Do not love the world"

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If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Fifth Day in the Christmas Octave: "keep his commandments"

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Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. -- 1 Jn 2:3-11 "A murderer fro...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Feast of the Holy Family: "I must be in my Father's house"

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Sirach 3:2-6,12-14; Psalm 128, 1-2. 3. 4-5; Colossians 3:12-21; St. Luke 2: 41-52 In these days following our Lord's birth, we contemp...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas Day: " In the beginning was the Word"

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... and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him ...

Hodie Christus Natus Est

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Christ is born today! Hodie Christus natus est! Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which ...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christmas Eve: "For the LORD delights in you"

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and makes your land his spouse. As a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so ...