Liturgical Year

DAVID O’BRIEN Here’s a 20-question quiz to test your knowledge about Advent and Christmas. It contains sample questions such as: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel, and...

JONATHAN F. SULLIVAN Keeping an Advent season of attentive and joyful anticipation — amidst the secular celebration of Christmas all around us ­— is an...

It seems that as a people, we are obsessed with winning.

Happy birthday to us! CONNIE CLARK You’re with your friends in an upstairs room when suddenly the whole house is filled with a noise “like...

This is the season of lengthening daylight hours and the greening earth's growth and renewal.

On Why Your Lesson Time Ought to be Liturgical MARC CARDARONELLA The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that liturgy is a “privileged place” for catechesis....

"Let's get away, just the two of us." "Great! Where are we going?" "We are going to get away from it all. No TV. No computer. It will be just the two of us." "I can hardly wait to spend the time together! But where are we going?" "It's very remote. No internet. No cell phone." "It sounds wonderful! But where are we going?" "We are going to the desert." "Are you crazy?"

Pope Francis teaches that caring for God’s creation is our mission.

Wednesday, February 18, is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. During Lent we make extra efforts to follow Jesus as we remember the days leading up to his crucifixion and death. There are many ways to do this, but there are three special ways we do this. Begin with the first letter, indicated by the arrow, and write that letter and every other letter on the lines given as you go around the circle. Keep going until you’ve run out of letters. You will discover these three special ways you can celebrate Lent.

A group activity for the family at home or your class family.