Our Theme for this Week: Why we love Christmas Carols/Hymns. Our days are filled with Christmas music this time of year, let us draw close and consider why we love these song/hymns. Do They Know It’s Christmas? In the mid 1980’s there was a horrible famine in Ethiopia and some musicians decided to raise money...
Our Theme for this Week: Why we love Christmas Carols/Hymns. Our days are filled with Christmas music this time of year, let us draw close and consider why we love these song/hymns. Angels We Have Heard on High… One of my favorite Christmas carols is ‘Oh Holy Night’. I was probably about 12 when the...
Our Theme for this Week: Why we love Christmas Carols/Hymns. Our days are filled with Christmas music this time of year, let us draw close and consider why we love these song/hymns. Angels We Have Heard on High… Advent is a time to gather and wait for Jesus. On Sunday we reached the midpoint and...
Our Theme for this Week: The Sacred Art of Mary. As we search for great works of art around Mary and the birth of Jesus, may these reflections help bring us closer to Him through her. “A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet,...
Our Theme for this Week: The Sacred Art of Mary. As we search for great works of art around Mary and the birth of Jesus, may these reflections help bring us closer to Him through her. St. Anne with Mary I am not what you would call an “artsy person”. I never cared much what...
Our Theme for this Week: The Sacred Art of Mary. As we search for great works of art around Mary and the birth of Jesus, may these reflections help bring us closer to Him through her. The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 17th Century Residing at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore...
May these reflections give you some thought as to how our favorite movies/specials teach us about God entering the World. A Viewing of The Muppet’s Christmas Carol: the Path of Conversion and the Suffering Christ Broadly considered, this childhood classic reveals a story of conversion embodied through the person of Ebenezer Scrooge, who meets the...
May these reflections give you some thought as to how our favorite movies/specials teach us about God entering the World. Home Alone: A Reflection on Fear, Family, and the desires of our Hearts “I made my family disappear”- one of the greatest lines said by Kevin McCallister to the camera while moving his eyebrows up...
May these reflections give you some thought as to how our favorite movies/specials teach us about God entering the World. “To my brother George the richest man in town.” George Bailey, a man with dreams, a man who thought he knew his life’s plan, where he ought to go, and what he ought to do....
“You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing.” – Isaiah 9:1-2 To help keep our focus on this time to grow with wonder for Christmas we offer you this year’s OLPH Advent & Christmas Prayer Calendar (page 3 of our linked OLPH Advent packet). The goal of this prayer calendar is to approach each...
