This weekend we shall celebrate the feast of the Nativity of the Lord, Savior of the World, and we look forward to hosting you and your loved ones as we Praise God for the Christmas gift of His Son and the Salvation of the world. As we are returning to a more normal way of life after the Covid Pandemic, that now for most of us it is a flu-like illness, and for those who have underlying health issues we know that we are called to take some additional precautions

We are entering the fourth Sunday in Advent, and from the 16th of December onward the readings at the Masses have moved from the preparation for Christ’s Second Coming, the end days, to the Nativity of the Lord, His birth on Christmas Day and the intersecting of humanity and Divinity. So let us focus on the meaning of the birth of Christ—for us as an individual, as The Church, and for the world.

Our Advent Giving Trees, complete with the donation envelopes, are once again benefiting the Knights of Malta Mobile House of Care and our parish’s Neighbors in Need Fund.

The Practice or Habitus of Prayer To paraphrase St. Thomas Aquinas, habitus matters. For when we practice something we become better at that something and then we become what we have practice, whether we are taking about a virtue or a vice. When it comes to prayer, there is no time like the present.