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Divine Encounter

March 25, 2020 By Karen Montagno 1 Comment

What a powerful moment, this divine encounter.  

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Annunciation, coronavirus, courage, fear, Gabriel, Mary

The Surprising and Disrupting News of the Annunciation

March 25, 2019 By Carrie Willard 2 Comments

If you’re anything like me, you might have still found scraps of Christmas lying around when you were getting ready to help your children with a school Valentine’s Day celebration. It’s still cold in most parts of the country, and we might still feel a bit of a holiday hangover when we’re not quite sure what to do with ourselves in the days following the Feast of the Epiphany.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Annunciation, Feast Days, Gabriel, Mary, pregnancy

Mary, Elizabeth, and you: finding your place in the Feast of the Visitation

May 31, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 4 Comments

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation, when Mary goes to visit her older cousin, Elizabeth after accepting the call to carry and give birth to Jesus. Just why do we celebrate this event? Where’s our place in the story? Let’s find it.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, Elizabeth, Gabriel, God, Jesus, John, Joseph, Mary, Visitation, Zechariah

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