Msgr. Beaulieu – Octave of Christian Unity
2024 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – January 18 through January 25 “You shall love the Lord your God…and your neighbor as yourself.” “Ecumenism” is derived from the Greek…
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Msgr. Beaulieu – The Gospel and the First Reading
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; John 1:35-42 The Gospel in Ordinary Time is chosen primarily from the Synoptic Gospels — Matthew in Year A, Mark…
Msgr. Beaulieu – Two Periods of Ordinary Time
In volume four of The Church at Prayer, Fr. Pierre Jounel described Ordinary Time this way, “The thirty-four Sundays per annum or of Ordinary Time represent the ideal Christian Sunday,…
Msgr. Beaulieu – Twelve Days of Christmas and Pope Saint Sylvester
The dozen days that mark the period between the Savior’s birth and the coming of the Magi constitute a period of religious feast days celebrated among the Catholics in medieval…
Msgr. Beaulieu – Octave of Christmas and the Octave Day
Christmas is December 25, right? Or maybe it’s an eight-day celebration — something called an “octave?” Also right! But aren’t there 12 days of Christmas? Yes, to that too. The…
Msgr. Beaulieu – Feast of the Incarnation
4th Sunday of Advent St. Athanasius articulated the doctrine of the Incarnation most clearly and persuasively in a treatise known as De Incarnatione Verbi Dei or The Incarnation of the…
Nature and dignity 