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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...

Advent Reminds Us to Wake Up

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. | Dec 1, 2020 | Sundays | 0 |

During a time when parties and endless carols dull our spiritual senses, the message of Advent...

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...

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...

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...

Encountering the Word — 1 Corinthians 16:13

by ICL Editor | Mar 19, 2017 | Verse | 0 |

A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.” (1 Corinthians 16:13) Please share on social media. Print this...

Daily Reflection — How Long, O Lord?

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Dec 20, 2016 | Reflect | 0 |

“How long, Lord? Will you hide forever? Must your wrath smolder like fire? Remember how brief life...

Encountering the Word — Psalm 89:47-48

by ICL Editor | Dec 20, 2016 | Verse | 0 |

A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “How long, Lord? Will you hide forever? Must your wrath smolder like fire? Remember how brief life is, how frail the sons of man you have created!” (Psalm 89:47-48) Please share this quote on...

Daily Reflection — Humble Beginnings

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Nov 28, 2016 | Reflect | 0 |

“Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let...

Daily Reflection — Let’s begin…

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Nov 27, 2016 | Reflect | 0 |

In confident hope we look forward to the resurrection of the body and the general judgment, but I...

Encountering the Word — Luke 12:35-40

by ICL Editor | Nov 13, 2016 | Verse | 0 |

A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and...

Encountering the Word — Ecclesiastes 9:11-12

by ICL Editor | Nov 9, 2016 | Verse | 0 |

A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and...