CNEWA: Bringing Christ’s Love to the Poor
The Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) was founded by Pope Pius XI in 1926 to provide support for the Eastern Catholic Churches. The geographic area of...
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Growing: From the Celebration of Light at Candlemas into Lent
The arrival of Lent always seems too fast. Christmas season is so short yet so intense following the four weeks of Advent. We get a brief few weeks of Ordinary Time to...
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Sant’Egidio Communities Bring Friendship and Hope to the Poor
The Community of Sant’Egidio is an international movement counting over 60,000 individuals on five continents who gather for common prayer, offering friendship...
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Experiencing and Celebrating God-With-Us Through Gifting
Gifting, the giving and receiving of gifts during the Christmas season, serves to remind us of God’s great gift in coming to live with us personally. In Jesus,...
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Extraordinary Synod on the Family Begins
Shortly after his election, Pope Francis called for an Extraordinary Synod of the bishops of the Catholic church to meet in Rome. The meetings of this synod began...
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A Prayer for All Who Work
O God, who through human labor never cease to perfect and govern the vast work of creation, listen to the supplications of your people and grant that all men and...
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Church: Organizing as a Community
A conversation overheard recently in the locker room of our local gym led me to consider the concept of community more deeply: what living as community implies, how our...
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Crepe Paper and Sticks Become a Bird for Pentecost
The primary image of Pentecost is that of tongues of fire that accompanied the sound of a rushing wind and settled over the heads of the disciples, both men and...
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Savoring the Feast of the Ascension
The Feast of the Ascension is traditionally celebrated on the 10th day before Pentecost. In many places these days it is celebrated on the Sunday before Pentecost so...
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Incarnation’s Power
Throughout Easter Season, we reflect on the wonder of the Resurrection and the resulting transformation of a few frightened followers of Jesus into a living community...
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