The Nativity and Epiphany:The fullness of celebrating the coming of our Lord By Father Nicholas Speier In approaching the Christmas Feast and celebrating the beginning of the New Year (2009) we recall that the historic Christian center of this time…
(The following article was published in the October, 2008, issue of TOUCHTONE Magazine. Its author, John Thompson, is a librarian at Waynesburg University in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where he also teaches New Testament. He, his wife Nancy, and their three children…
“Above everything, beware of your own confidence, lest you fall from a height of discipline because of lack of training. It is better to move ahead a little at a time. So then, withdraw from the pleasures of life little…
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.” Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country(1948) Every year during our family’s summer vacation I look forward to reading a great book. I have…
“A [parish assembly] can only be the Church if her experience is such where all ages, genders, professions, cultures, etc., meet, for this is what the Gospel promises us to be the Kingdom of God: a place where all natural…
