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The Story Begins with Christmas
Our God is a storyteller. As a writer of stories myself, this fact has always made me feel like what I am doing actually matters — like every little word that I manage to jot down on a page really can change the world. After all, I am mimicking my Father’s own craft. Perhaps I am only creating pseudo-worlds, while his Word takes on Flesh, but there is something so beautiful in being able to reflect God’s own creative nature in such an intimate way. When you think about it, the story God has written is more bizarre, more fantastic, more mysterious, more mystical than any fantasy epic you could…
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Four Feast Days to Celebrate During Advent
It’s no secret that our Church is home to a lot of beautiful traditions. Traditions are like spices — they add warmth and depth and flavor to the rhythmical cadence of the liturgical year. Throughout the year (during Lent, Advent, Easter, Christmas, and Ordinary Time) the feast days of Saints are sprinkled like mulling spices in a hot cup of cider. These feast days help to break up the seasons and remind us of the remarkable men and women who have gone before — the ones who pave the narrow way. Choosing to celebrate these feast days can help add some of that spice into our own life, and breaks…
