First Sunday of Advent | Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come…. So, too, you must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.
This Sunday, at the end of the Church’s liturgical year, the readings describe the enthronement of the victorious Christ as King in Heaven in all His glory.
Today we celebrate the Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the day her parents brought her to the Temple and dedicated her to the Lord.
There’s a surprise at the start of this week’s mass: an Introit that isn’t from the Psalms. It is from Jeremiah 29:11–14. This powerful and affirming passage is a part of a letter Jeremiah writes to the exiles in Babylon - the Hebrews who have been taken from their own land and are now living in a foreign place.
Certainly the saints can seem remote. Most of the saints—even the best known—have names that sound strange to our ears. It seems they lived centuries ago in places we will never visit. And yet, this week, we have the opportunity to reflect on a saint who is very close to us, not only in terms of when she lived her life, but where, as well—here in the United States.
Today is the feast of St. Josaphat, martyred in the year 1623 for his ardent championship of union with Rome among the Byzantine-rite Christians of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Good morning, on behalf of Fr. Craig and the other members of the St. Ann Finance Council we are extremely grateful for each and every parishioner of St. Ann Catholic Church...
St. Ann Catholic School annual Red Bag program had to start a little earlier this year, but the outpouring of support continues to grow. Read the news coverage from our friends at the Shawnee Mission Post.
Let us all rejoice in the Lord as we celebrate the feast day in honor of all the saints, at whose festival the angels rejoice and praise the Son of God.