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Homily for Christmas Midnight Mass
By
deacon greg kandra
Like a lot of people of a certain age, I remember well the first time I heard this gospel proclaimed – and it wasn’t in church. It was in my parent’s den, in Rockville, Maryland, watching an 18-inch Philco black and white TV. The person proclaiming the gospel wasn’t a priest or deacon or minister.…
A Christmas medley of melody
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for this particular singer — so here’s an early Christmas gift, from Your Humble Deacon to you. Merry Christmas!
Tony Blair = St. Paul?
By
deacon greg kandra
I suspect we’ll be hearing more and more about Tony Blair’s conversion, as more experts and friends and enemies weigh in. Today’s nugget: from Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent from the London Times, who spoke with one of the priests who shepherded Blair on the road to Rome: The Roman Catholic priest who was instrumental in…
O, star of wonder…
By
deacon greg kandra
People have been wondering about that star, the one that guided the magi, for 20 centuries, and now an astronomer at Notre Dame is giving it a shot: His quest: discovering just what “the star in the East” was that led wise men to travel to Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. As a theoretical astrophysicist, Grant…
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