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For anyone wishing to celebrate the Advent and Christmas seasons with both delight and some sense of a deeper meaning of the holidays, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington offers the perfect occasion: a special exhibition called “Juggling the Middle Ages.”  

Father William P. Saunders, pastor of Our Lady of Hope Church in Potomac Falls and episcopal vicar of faith formation, releases Celebrating a Merry Catholic Christmas, with practical suggestions to enter fully into the season.

As I have confessed to you many times before, I do not consider myself a good prayer. My prayer is often dry. 

When, several weeks ago, a Christian couple who own a bakery in Northern Ireland won a court ruling allowing them to refuse to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, it was international news. 

The vote in Ireland in the spring to take away constitutional protection for the unborn came as an unhappy surprise to Irish Catholics in the United States. It was a piece of news we didn't want to hear or believe.

When the verses from Chapter 33 of the Book of Jeremiah are read as the first reading on the First Sunday of Advent this year, I will hear them in a new way.

In his poem, "Fog," Carl Sandburg describes the fog rolling in quietly "on little cat feet." Advent is like that.

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