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Watching and Waiting During Advent in Carmel

by Carmelite Sisters | Dec 10, 2020 | Calendar & Seasons, Prayer / Spiritual Life, Spotlight | 0 |

Advent in Carmel To experience Advent in Carmel is to enter into a rarified atmosphere that is...

A Practical Plan for Advent 2020

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Nov 29, 2020 | Calendar & Seasons, Put Out Into the Deep | 0 |

If we lose our focus on the Lord, neither his coming in past history, nor his coming at the end of...

Advent Reflection — Wonderfully Made

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Dec 16, 2019 | Reflect | 0 |

“Creation of Adam” (detail) by Michelangelo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons...

Watching and Waiting — Advent in Carmel

by Carmelite Sisters | Dec 12, 2019 | Calendar & Seasons, Prayer / Spiritual Life, Spotlight | 0 |

Advent in Carmel To experience Advent in Carmel is to enter into a rarified atmosphere that is...

Daily Reflection — Wonderfully Made

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Dec 12, 2018 | Reflect | 0 |

“You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works! My very self you know.” (Psalm 139:13-14) Every single one of us is made intentionally by God....

Daily Reflection — Hear the Baptist’s Cry

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Dec 10, 2018 | Reflect | 0 |

A Daily Reflection for Advent… “All praise, eternal Son, to thee, whose advent doth thy people free; whom with the Father we adore and Holy Ghost for evermore.” * – – – * Closing verse from “On...

Focus on the Lord this Advent

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Dec 2, 2018 | Calendar & Seasons, Put Out Into the Deep | 0 |

We should allow the clarion call from this great saint to reverberate in our souls. Today we enter...

Daily Reflection — God’s Promise

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Dec 13, 2017 | Reflect | 0 |

“He promised us eternal salvation and an unending life of blessedness with the angels, and an...

A Practical Plan for Advent

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Dec 3, 2017 | Calendar & Seasons, Put Out Into the Deep, Sundays | 0 |

“But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only...

Daily Reflection — These Great Blessings

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Dec 8, 2016 | Reflect | 0 |

Today we recall the Immaculate Conception of Mary in her mother’s womb and ponder the grace that has become available to us all. From the first moment of her existence, God filled the Blessed Virgin Mary with His grace so...