In these early days of the new year, many of us are probably feeling a mixture of anxiety and hope – anxious about the many crises in our nation and world, yet hopeful that 2025 will be better.
Pope Francis offers insight that for him hope, especially hope in God that is expressed in concrete action, is the elixir to anxiety
“The light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it” (Jn 1:5). Thus does the prologue to John’s gospel, read at the Christmas morning Mass, suggest the deeper meaning of our celebration of the birth of Jesus.
This interactive webinar and Conversation in the Spirit is dedicated to the woman at the well, Photini, and hosted by the Women in the Church Working Group for AUSCP. This webinar seeks to inspire conversation around the callings women have.
In our last WW before Christmas Day, there’s the disappeared keffiyeh at the Vatican, how Coca Cola was involved with Santa Claus in 1930 and Charlie Brown in the 1960s, Pelosi’s Communion ban, a bruised pope, cardinals in white — and dread for January 20 but with a few reasons to be of good cheer!
