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  1. Auden on the Feast of St. Stephen

    | Samuel Bellafiore

    Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes— Some have got broken—and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burnt...

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  2. Advent and the Angelus

    | Jared Dees

    Jared Dees of Ave Maria Press writes about the power of the Angelus as a devotion intended to prepare us to celebrate feast of Christmas.

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  3. Waiting in the Mystery of Hope

    | Jessica Keating

    What surprises me, says God, is hope. —Charles Péguy, The Portal to the Mystery of Hope Every Advent I sit around a small prayer table with four-year-olds and contemplate the great mystery of messianic hope announced by the&...

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  11. Advent Fun and Festivity: St. Lucy's Day

    | Carolyn Pirtle

    Today the Church celebrates the feast of St. Lucy, a third-century Sicilian girl who pledged her virginity to Christ and endured a martyr’s death when she refused to renounce her faith. Numerous versions of St. Lucy’s martyrd...

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  12. The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Season of Advent

    | Maxwell Johnson

    For some Christian people throughout the world, especially Mexican and Mexican-American Christians, December 12, of course, is the celebration of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe. The feast commemorates her December 9–12, 1531 appearan...

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  19. The Problem of Experience

    | Madeline Running

    What happens when experience is treated as an end unto itself? Madeline Running thinks about how young people might properly understand experience in college.

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