By Fr. Vince Freeh, MSC To know God’s love is truly thine / we must embrace it as divine. For us to own this from the start / the Lord gave us a human heart. It’s not that reason has no role / in how to reach this awesome goal, But finding meaning in the…
The Christmas plays we did each year in school / began without exception to the rule That we expose the Keeper of the Inn / as being heartless and beset by sin. But Scripture lends no credence to this view / and Christmas tells us judging is taboo. We also find the Bible did not…
When I was in Rome recently, we visited a lot of churches and cathedrals. In one of the churches, a unique version of the nativity scene was on display behind a glass front. In this display, you had to search for the manger scene. Most of the display showed people pursuing their everyday activities, some…
By Fr. Hilary Fischer, MSC (Illinois Community, Aurora, IL) This happened at Lemakot Mission in New Ireland in my early years there as pastor. It was the week before Christmas and we started preparing to set up the Christmas crib. The statues for it were stored in boxes in a side sacristy that had no…