Would you recognize Mary’s voice if she were knocking at your door? Conan Rainwater, SJ, reflects on the importance of drawing close to our Mother Mary in these final days of Advent. Based on the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Is that Aunt Mary I...
Each year we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the day after we celebrate the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is this Immaculate Heart of Mary that allowed her to give her “fiat” or her yes to the angel Gabriel. The heart of Mary can...
The world of my childhood was a very enchanted one, where the supernatural seemed ready to jump out at you around every corner. To the six-year-old me, it was a mysterious and scary place. It didn’t exactly help that the house that we lived in was purportedly haunted....