Joseph – The Dad of Jesus. He gets left out of the Christmas story quite a bit as he seems to be there to uproot Mary and get her off to Bethlehem for a tax census and then scoot her out to Egypt, and that’s about it. We know he was an older man with [...]
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The gospel accounts of the birth of Christ give us two different traveling moments, one before the big event, and one after. The most familiar to anyone who watches animated TV Christmas specials knows this one from Luke’s gospel, the most familiar Christmas story: And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the [...]
Cathedra Everywhere J.S. Bach wrote that “to sing once is to pray twice.” When I sing, and when I hear singing, I am surrounded by the presence of the angels and the prayers of the saints. I am in communion, even if in a community of one. I remember today one of the Advent meditations [...]
Thus, on the Feast day of St. Stephen (today in the Christian calendar), King Wenceslas looked out his window to see the poor man trying to find sticks and twigs, amongst the winter snow.
