Sunday, Feb. 2, is the feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Year A). Mass readings: Malachi 3:1-4; Psalm 24:7-10; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40 or 2:22-32. As the Gospel opens today, we see Mary and ...

The Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Family on the Sunday between Christmas and New Year (provided they are both not Sundays themselves, in which case Holy Family defaults to Dec. 30). Last ...

Pope Benedict XVI marked the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord with vespers and explained that the presentation of Jesus in the temple reveals Christ as the light of the world. “In the encounter ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, celebrated on February 2, 2009, comes at just the right time this year, a time when we ought even more to reflect on the Jewishness of Jesus. Fr. James ...

A number of the medieval Flowers of Our Lady have been associated with the feasts or seasons of the liturgical year for which they are in bloom, and for which their characteristic forms or colors have ...

In a profound reflection delivered during Sunday’s Angelus prayer, Pope Francis emphasized how Jesus Christ reveals the ultimate criterion by which all history is judged: love. “Whoever loves lives, ...

Parish elders know that the laughter should actually have come when the parents and godparents said, "Yes, we fully understand what we are undertaking." The seniors understand that life is a mystery ...