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The Starry Manger
The Catholic Astronomer - Dec 23, 2017 at 4:00 am
Today is the day before the day before Christmas, or Christmas Eve Eve. Did you know that a Manger can be found among the stars? Here it is, right in the constellation of...
+Father Piero Gheddo, 89 (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 23, 2017 at 3:12 am Father Gheddo, a member of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, helped draft the Second Vatican Council’s decree on missionary activity (Ad Gentes, 1965) and St. John...
Italy: Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants issue joint statement on Reformation (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 23, 2017 at 3:12 am The Italian bishops’ conference, joined by Orthodox dioceses and several Protestant communities in Italy, recently issued a joint statement for the 500th anniversary of the...
Bethlehem…the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.
Aleteia - Dec 23, 2017 at 3:00 am Frederick Buechner
Hamilton review – the rise and fall of a scrappy orphan who shaped America
Catholic Herald - Dec 23, 2017 at 12:28 am Hamilton, a huge critical and box-office success in America, arrives in London, having won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2016...
ADVENTCAzT 2017 21: A person may be silent, and yet have a frightening noise inside
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 23, 2017 at 12:01 am
Here is ADVENTCAzT 21, for Saturday in the 3rd Week of Advent.
Two days left! Sunday is Christmas Eve Day.
Both Joseph Ratzinger and Fulton Sheen talk to us today. Hard to beat...
Sharing the Word for December 23, 2017
Franciscan Media - Dec 23, 2017 at 12:00 am Saturday of the Third Week of Advent
December 23, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Psalm 25:4-5ab, 8-9, 10, 14
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He's Here! (Well, Almost)
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:43 pm To one and all, your loved ones and those you serve, Buon Natale – Merry Christmas! May all the joy, light, goodness and love born on the Holy Night be yours through these days...
The Mystery of Advent—Annunciation & Incarnation
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:04 pm The biblical term “mystery” refers to a long thread running through history, hidden under ordinary faces and events. It comes to a climax in an Angel’s annunciation to a Virgin...
Justice, Mercy and Peace
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:03 pm “He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling. But he who...
Daily Catholic Quote — O Antiphons: O Emmanuel
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:02 pm O Emmanuel: “O Emmanuel (God with us), our King and lawgiver, the expected of the nations and their Savior: come to save us, O Lord our God!” (Vespers for December 23rd; antiphon...
Encountering the Word — Luke 1:57-58
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:01 pm “Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a son. And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced...
Daily Gospel Reflection for December 23, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:01 pm Today’s Gospel: Luke 1:57-66
I love Elizabeth and Zechariah. They’re so relatable. Zechariah had the job of presenting sacrifice to God, but when God sent an actual messenger to...
10 Facts few people know about the Christmas story (VIDEO)
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Even devout Christians don’t know some of these tidbits.Almost three years ago on Christmas Eve, as I sat in the hospital holding my first baby, it dawned on me that at one point...
Gwen Stefani’s new Christmas duet is an instant classic
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Stefani wrote six original Christmas tunes.Gwen Stefani’s fourth studio album is her first with a Christmas theme. The title song from the work, “You Make It Feel Like Christmas...
Put these 4 movies on your Christmas holiday watch list!
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm These films about the Nativity Story are the real reason we're celebrating.Santa, Scrooge and Frosty the Snowman are fine in their own way. And hey, I like looking at lights,...
Advent Light: John the Baptist, fierce priest and prophet
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm A reflection and prayer for December 23, 2017, Day 21 of AdventThus says the Lord GOD: Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; And suddenly there will come to...
‘3801 Lancaster: American Tragedy’ details monstrous story of Kermit Gosnell
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Amazon Prime offering is a disturbing look at a death-loving villain and how he was able to continue for so long.If there is anything undisputed, it is that the actions of...
Want to know who made the first Nativity scene?
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: December 23, 2017Saint Francis of Assisi is credited with creating the very first Nativity scene in the year 1223 in a cave in Greccio, Italy, wanting to “do...
Andrea Bocelli sings a Christmas carol written by Saint Liguori
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm We never knew Bocelli could play piano so well!Bocelli released this recording of “Tu scendi dalle stelle” for Christmas, 2009. Recorded in his home, the opera star accompanies...
