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Today, December 17, marks a change in the season of Advent. For those who do…

So now you get to hear what the rest of my first trip to Italy was like.

Fr. Don Goergen, OP breaks open the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, encouraging us to be open and receptive to the grace of God working through us and transforming us.

Joseph Epstein’s mean-spirited op-ed piece on whether Jill Biden can call herself “Doctor” ignited…

In the Old Testament, when we encounter the idea of breath, we should think of…

There’s a certain irony in calling today’s celebration “Gaudete [Rejoice!] Sunday,” its former…

Seek the Something More: 3 Advent Homily 12/13/20 by Fr. Patrick Hyde, OP

For 13 December 2020, Third Sunday of Advent, based on John 1:6–8, 19–28

Fr. Scott Steinkerchner, OP, Promoter of Media for the Province of St. Albert the Great, opens up the readings for the Third Sunday of Advent, calling us to make straight the way of the Lord within ourselves to renew our hope in a better world.

Patrick goes to Italy for the first time.  Mamma mia!!

It's a dangerous job to be a prophet. Usually it does not end well. The prophet…

I gave this homily on December 8, 2020 at the WashU Medical School. It touches on some current issues.

For 10 December 2020, Thursday of the second week of Advent, based on Matthew…

Immaculate Conception homily 2020 by Fr. Patrick Hyde, OP

Today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
For the daily readings, see the USCCB.

Why is it that Mary needed to be sinless? Because this made her the fitting…

Do people see in Christians people who proclaim comfort in Jesus? Or, is it the…

This is the darkest part of the year, at least in the northern hemisphere, but the darkness is not…

Hear about my first full years in Washington DC.  

Fr. James Marchionda, OP breaks open the word for this Sunday's readings, reminding us that we, like John the Baptist, must decrease so that Christ, living in us, can increase.

Today is the Memorial Feast of St. Francis Xavier, SJ.
For the daily readings, see the USCCB.

Actions speak louder than words. It is not enough simply to say the name of God…

For the daily readings, see the USCCB. 

Henry David Thoreau, the great American naturalist, poet and…