New Year’s Eve
By Dane Neufeld
New Year’s Eve offers a window into the overlapping but often divergent interests of the Church calendar and the secular calendar. While today is technically the feast of St. Sylvester, the s... Read More...
He Leadeth Me: On Frances Joseph-Gaudet
By Neil Dhingra
Frances Joseph-Gaudet’s 1913 memoir, He Leadeth Me, begins by telling the reader that the future missionary, prison reformer, school founder, and Episcopal saint was born in a log cabin in Mi... Read More...
A Northern Nativity
By Cole Hartin
William Kurelek (1927-77) was a Canadian artist and author who spent much of the second half of his anguished life grappling with Catholicism. His is not likely a name that would be familiar t... Read More...
A Test of Faith
By Ben Lima
The Massacre of the Innocents is a test of faith. Taking place in the midst of the Christmas story, Herod the Great’s vain attempt to do away with the threat to his reign by killing all the baby ... Read More...
A Christmas Paradox
By Molly Jane Layton
When St. John the Evangelist wrote the Christmas story, he left out all of the Christmas. There are no angels, no shepherds, no wise men. No Mary, no Joseph, no manger. No birth announce... Read More...
Saint Stephen, the Law of the Cross, and a Church that Would Rather Die than Kill
By Eugene R. Schlesinger
Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
Luke 23:34
Lord, do not hold this sin against them.
Acts 7:60
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.
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The Incarnation: God’s Great Eucatastrophe
By Neal Michell
People throng to Christmas Eve services, but few attend Christmas Day services. Somehow, the simplicity of Christmas Day services allows the truth of the Incarnation to touch our hearts in a sp... Read More...
O Holy Night: Beyond Sentimentality
By Peter C. Schellhase
A few Christmases ago I learned that “O Holy Night,” that Christmas Eve staple, is based on a quite serviceable French carol, “Minuit, Chrétiens,” by Placide Cappeau. But the differenc... Read More...