Sunday reflections

Loving the unborn child     Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer   “Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say rejoice.  The Lord is near.”  These words introduce the Mass on the third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday (gaudete means “rejoice” in Latin). On this Sunday, we rejoice in knowing that at Christmas God comes near to us in […]

A World Weary of Suffering “Here is your God!” These words of the first reading, attributed to a prophet called the second (or Deutero)-Isaiah, are words of hope for a disheartened people. The Israelites, although freed from slavery under the Egyptians, now find themselves exiles in what is called the “Babylonian captivity.” The Babylonians had