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Perhaps it’s been around for a while, but I just discovered that Typepad has integrated a "you can close all comments at once" function – well, not all comments at once, but as many as you check on the "list posts" page. Good. That means I won’t have to use my little sneaky system that…

John Allen’s interview with the Armenian Patriarch Though Benedict indeed spared no effort to send positive signals to the Turks, his more immediate sensitivity in his meeting with the Armenians was actually for someone else – the Armenians themselves, and especially their leader, Patriarch Mesrob II. “It would have been a huge headache for us,”…

First Sunday of Advent edition. What hymns were sung? What were the Mass parts? How was the Advent wreath handled? What liturgical colors were in evidence? Homily? So…when did Lo, How a Rose "ere Blooming become an Advent hymn? Especially a First Sunday of Advent hymn? Just wondering. Our parish uses the very unfortunate Mass…

Today’s Angelus in St. Peter’s Square: I would like, above all, to remember with affection the Catholic community who live on Turkish soil. I think of them as we enter Advent time this Sunday. I was able to meet and celebrate Mass with these brothers and sisters of ours who find themselves in conditions that…

Augustiniaster has some videos to share with you – 2 so far: the Irish Dominicans celebrating the feast of St Clement and the first of what I hope will be a series of ‘guided walks’ about Rome: A Walk on the Caelian Hill

….I think so… After the high drama of Thursday night and Friday morning, watching The Storm make its way east and north, I finally decided that it definitely looked like it was going more north than east, my Chicago Contacts were assuring me that all was well, and an eye on various Chicago webcams revealed…

Sunday is the memorial of St. Francis Xavier, a fact that will be swallowed up in the First Sunday of Advent, but Gaswhin, presently heading back to the States from India, has somet thoughts on St. Francis and misisonary zeal.

There are many of them out there, of course, but this one is rather different – in 1966, Dorothy Day wrote a series of Advent reflections for Ave Maria magazine. Here is the first. In it, her compassion, her faith, and her wide-ranging knowledge are all powerfully in evidence. It begins, intriguingly enough, with reflections…

Check out the Catholic Homeschooling Carnival for lots of great links, including many that are Advent-related.

I’m off to Chicago. If you’re there, come see me at Mary of Angels tonight or around noon at the Daughters of St. Paul bookstore tomorrow. Comments closed!
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