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“O gates lift up your heads Grow higher ancient doors That the King of Glory may come in Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory! (Ps 24:7...
Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus begins with a reference to Augustus Caesar (v 1). It is easy to rapidly move on to the rest of the account, and so put Augustus Caesar out of...
Christmas Eve is a day of anticipation. Even its name identifies it as ‘the day before’ Christmas, and today’s liturgy repeats many times the words ‘Today you...
On this day, 22 December, in 1216, our holy father Dominic received papal approval from Pope Honorius III for the establishment of an Order of Preachers. In anticipation of the 800th...
It is interesting that the liturgy places the reading of Isaiah’s prophecy that ‘a young woman / virgin is with child and will bear a son’ with Luke’s account...
Each week, a Dominican member of the Province of St. Joseph’s Preaching Advisory Board prepares this Preacher’s Sketchbook in anticipation of the upcoming Sunday Mass. The...
The Christmas-January issue of the Irish friars' vocations office newsletter, 'Dominican Connect', has been published. Coming at the end of the...
Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to Ghana, where I was a guest speaker at the assembly of the Theresians International—an organization of Catholic women, dedicated to...
Br Nicholas Crowe OP considers St Matthew's presentation of Christ's lineage, which is read to us during Mass in these days before Christmas. What does the person of Joseph...
The Octave before Christmas, sometimes called 'the Golden Nights of Advent' is a time when we prepare more intensely to celebrate the First Coming of Christ at Christmas. In...
