The waiting is almost over Michael Gilbert CSsR Almost 60 years ago the world was shaken by the civil rights movements in America. Martin Luther King and others launched a massive direct-action campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. King was arrested for defying a state law that forbad mass public demonstrations. In prison, he penned, […]
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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
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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
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