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Called and Gifted for Mission

By Sr. Karen Freund This wonderful feast of the Baptism of the Lord officially closes the Christmas season. Mark’s version, used in today’s gospel, says, “On coming up out of the water he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, […]

Our Holy Family

By Fr. Dan Merz The feast of the Holy Family is an important feast! Because we all belong to a family. Even if your parents are deceased and you have no other living members, you belong to the Church family here at Newman. And maybe you haven’t thought of it, but you belong to the […]

We Crave God

In Blaise Pascal’s work, Pensees, he says: “What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not […]

Expect More this Advent

By Fr. Paul Clark This past week I found myself shopping for chicken soup for a certain sick pastor… I guess I never realized how many options there are for canned soup. I went directly to the section of the aisle with the Campbell display and searched for soups of various chicken flavors amid the […]

Preparing with Patient Enthusiasm

People knew over a year in advance that the Pope was coming for a visit to America and the preparations began. Security, space limitations and requirements, protocols, crowd management, itineraries, invitations, regulations, and so much more was necessary to pull this event off effectively. It’s not every day that we get a visit from such […]