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Opening letter Christmas Quarterly

Tis the Season to be Merry! Now that many of us have spent over 50 years of Christmas celebrations we all must have several that were memorable. I remember being one of the first brother missionaries sent to Baltimore in 1971 and meeting up with our Brothers in Philly...

The Meaning of a Christmas Tree

The Christmas tree comes to us from Germany. Martin Luther is credited with being inspired by the starry heavens one night, and expressing his feelings to his family by bringing a fir tree into his home, and attaching lighted candles to its branches. Fir meant fire,...

HOOM Christmas letter from Father Paul and Mother Ruth 1971

…Words that we hear frequently sometimes lose their meaning and the great spiritual depth that lies behind these words seem to become dimmed in the hoary halls of time. Our blessed Mother Mary:  the two most outstanding attributes of her personality which of...

The Pope urges church, nations to remember the poor

Pope Francis has called for countries to shrink the gap between rich and poor, some of whom he said were getting only “crumbs”, in a message to mark the Roman Catholic church’s “day of peace”. The pope, who said in the first peace message...