Blog - December 2021

December 26. 2021: "All those years — in fact, most of his earthly life — Jesus spent living in Nazareth with Mary and Joseph. And then they also had, as we can see and learn from the Gospels and from the life of Mary and Joseph, that they were part of a large extended family that included cousins, aunts, uncles, and also Jesus’ grandparents, St. Joachim and St. Anne, Our Blessed Mother’s parents."

December 25, 2021: "So tonight, every land rejoices, and every human heart is filled with new hope and new possibilities. And that means your heart, and my heart, every heart is alive with the promise of salvation."

December 19, 2021: "Our readings today bring our attention to the Blessed Virgin Mary, our Mother. We are invited throughout the holy season of Advent, and especially in these final days before Christmas, to reflect deeply on Mary’s faith."

December 19, 2021: "As we know, this was the last of the missions founded by St. Junípero. Next year, we will mark the 240th anniversary of the foundation of this mission on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1782."

December 15, 2021: "We thank God today for the gift of faith and we thank the generations who have come before us and passed on this precious gift and helped to build a strong and flourishing Filipino Catholic community, not only in the Philippines or here but around the world."

December 12, 2021: "Our Lady of Guadalupe came to be the Mother of the Americas, to announce the new birth of Jesus Christ among the peoples and nations of the New World. Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. This country and every country in North and South America, is born “under God,” and under the mantle of Holy Mary, every nation and every person under her loving protection and care."

Diciembre 12, 2021: "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe vino para ser la Madre del continente americano, para anunciar el nacimiento de Jesucristo entre los pueblos y naciones del Nuevo Mundo."

December 5, 2021: "Our Lady of Guadalupe was sent by God to announce the evangelization — not only of Mexico, but of all the Americas. This country, every country in North and South America, are under her mantle, under her loving protection and care."

Diciembre 5, 2021: "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe fue enviada por Dios para anunciar la evangelización, no sólo a México, sino a todo el continente americano. Todos los países de América están bajo su manto, bajo su amorosa protección y cuidado."

Diciembre 4, 2021: " 'La sangre de los mártires es semilla de la Iglesia”. Esta expresión de la Iglesia primitiva se ha verificado como cierta desde los tiempos del Imperio Romano, en la época de los Apóstoles, hasta los horrores de la España revolucionaria de los años treinta."

December 4, 2021: " 'The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.” This expression from the early Church has been true from the Roman Empire in the time of the Apostles, through the horrors of revolutionary Spain in the 1930s."