Happy New Years everyone! However, many different cultures celebrate the beginning of the new year on other dates during the year. For example, the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is celebrated at the beginning of October. The Chinese will celebrate the beginning of the new year in late January. In fact, we as a church […]
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The Seventh Day within the Octave of Christmas
“This year, Christ was born again and again and again,” says Father Jerry in today’s homily. “Many of us brought him to birth. Maybe this quieter Christmas rightly reflects a year when we experience the mystery of Christ’s birth in unexpected and lasting ways.” He adds, “This year the Word of God was made flesh […]
Continue ReadingThe Sixth Day within the Octave of Christmas
Today the church celebrates The Sixth Day within the Octave of Christmas. Let us pray. Grant we pray, Almighty God, that the newness of the Nativity in the flesh of your only begotten Son may set us free, for ancient servitude holds us bound beneath the yoke of sin. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Thomas Becket
Today the church celebrates The Fifth Day of the Octave of Christmas, and also The Feast of Saint Thomas Becket, bishop and martyr. Let us pray. O God, who gave the martyr Saint Thomas Becket the courage to give up his life for the sake of justice, grant with his intercession that renouncing our life […]
Continue ReadingMonday within the Octave of Christmas
Today the church celebrates Monday within the Octave of Christmas. It is also The Feast of the Holy Innocents, the first martyrs. Let us pray. O God whom the Holy Innocents confessed and proclaimed on this day not by speaking but by dying, grant we pray that the faith in You which we confess with […]
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