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December 21st is the 'shortest' day (and the longest night) of the year. It's also the day the Church celebrates the 5th O Antiphon, O Radiant Dawn, on the final countdown to Christmas. It's also my mom's birthday. She would have been 100 years old today, something she'd mused many times, had she not been… Continue reading O Radiant Dawn

The word Bethlehem means, "House of Bread". The breaking of the bread is a sign of charity, unity, and friendship. Religious family traditions and customs bring the truths of Faith into the home. One of these beautiful Christmas customs is the Christmas Wafer; a thin wafer baked from pure wheat flour and water and bearing… Continue reading The Christmas Eve Wafer: Poland’s Gift of Faith to the World

In a small chapel, on the rue de Bac in Paris, under the side altar to the right as you enter, there is a blue velvet chair. Dressed in an ivory-colored silk dress, blue mantle, and white veil, Our Lady sat in this chair in 1830 when she spoke to a young French nun and… Continue reading Of Blue Velvet Chairs and Ivory Silk Dresses

PRESS RELEASE: ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 20, 2018 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Dominican Sisters of Mary will further bring their 'Joy to the World,' as they have accepted an invitation to sing at the 96th annual White House National Christmas Tree Lighting. The event itself will be recorded before a large audience on the Ellipse… Continue reading The Singing Nuns Will Light Up Our National Christmas Tree

In the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark, and the twentieth of Matthew's, we read about the mother of James and John wanting her sons to sit at the right and left (places of honor) of Jesus in His Kingdom to come. And Jesus' response, "... it is for those for whom it has… Continue reading The King Has A Mother