Family Tips for Advent and Christmas Eve

by Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
December 3, 2021
Family Tips for Advent and Christmas Eve

Advent Wreath: The Advent wreath symbolizes the millennia from Adam to Christ, when the world awaited its Redeemer. It also represents the years awaiting Christ’s Second Coming. The...Read more

Advent and Mary

Reflections on the Woman of the Apocalypse by Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
November 30, 2021
“Jesus is conceived by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary’s womb because he is the New Adam, who inaugurates the new creation: ‘The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from...Read more

A Saintly Jubilee Addition

October 26, 2021

During its 75th anniversary year, Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Arlington opened a prayer garden honoring its late former pastor.

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STATEMENT BY BISHOP MICHAEL F. BURBIDGE ON U.S. HOUSE PASSAGE OF “WOMEN’S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT”

September 24, 2021
September 27, 2021

In the United States, the tragically pervasive acceptance of abortion has resulted in more than 62 million abortions since Roe v. Wade . Still, today the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impose abortion on demand nationwide—and thus double down...Read more

THE ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY OF JEROME KERN

Reflections on the Golden Age of American Pop Music in Honor of my Late Father by Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
September 27, 2021
THE ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY OF JEROME KERN In Honor of my Late Father, Martin Edlefsen

By Father Frederick Edlefsen

Officially, my tenth birthday was in 1975. But I turned ten in 1955 like some...Read more
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