Readings this Week

  • We all know the elements of the Christmas story: Caesar's census and Herod, shepherds and Magi, ox, swaddling clothes & manger, a stable and not room in the inn, Emmanuel and the Prince of Peace. But underneath each of these people, places, and things, there is hidden a wealth of meaning that often goes unnoticed....

  • The Feast of the Holy Family challenges us to grow in the virtues of piety, honor, patience, and forbearance, and to learn to laugh together....

  • artridge in a pear tree           Jesus Christ, symbolized as a mother partridge that feigns injury to decoy predators from helpless nestlings.   Two turtle doves                     Old & New Testaments   Three French Hens                 Faith, hope, charity   Four Calling birds                    The Four Gospels   Five Golden Rings                  The Pentateuch or......