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Second Saturday in Advent – December 13, 2025 Ecclesiasticus 48: 1-4,9-12; Matthew 17: 10-13 Prophet Elijah rose like a fire, like the flaring torch… introduces
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Second Friday in Advent – December 12, 2025 Isaiah 48: 17-19; Matthew 11: 16-19 Daring to behold the Reign is all about protagonism on behalf
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By Lavoisier Fernandes – The recent nightclub fire in Arpora, Goa-India, which claimed twenty-five lives and injured at least fifty people, has shaken the state’s
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Paul Suski – During Advent, on December 12, we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is an image traditionally held not to
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Second Thursday in Advent – December 11, 2025 Isaiah 41: 13-20; Matthew 11: 11-15 Daring to behold the Reign is, almost always, interpreted in terms
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Second Tuesday in Advent – December 09, 2025 Isaiah 40: 1-11; Matthew 18: 12-14 One of the signs or consequences of daring to behold the
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Second Wednesday in Advent – December 10, 2025 Isaiah 40: 25-31; Matthew 11: 28-30 Daring to behold the Reign is the task entrusted to us
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December 8, 2025: Genesis 3: 9-15, 20; Ephesians 1: 3-6, 11-12; Lk 1: 26-38 The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Mother –
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Officials believe two men were involved in a shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia.
After celebrating Mass for the Jubilee of Prisoners, Pope Leo delivers his Angelus address for the third Sunday of Advent, saying that Christian joy endures "when life seems to lose its meaning and everything appears darker.”
During the Sunday Angelus Pope Leo appeals for those fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo to stop the violence which has broken out and return to constructive dialogue. He also remembers the newly beatified martyrs in two separate beatifications in Spain and in France on Saturday 13 December.
During his homily on the Sunday of the Jubilee of Prisoners, Pope Leo XIV challenges both inmates and those responsible for the prisons to hold on to hope and he reminds everyone “that no human being is defined only by his or her actions and that justice is always a process of reparation and reconciliation.”