The story surrounding the Jewish Festival of Lights, is filled with intrigue, fear, war, and then of course, victory. The celebration of that victory gives us the miracle now known as Hanukkah, when a ...

From the Archives for 2014: Every eleven years in non-leap years, several feasts interrupt the Sunday cycle of the Liturgical Calendar; these feasts take precedence over the Sundays in Ordinary Time: ...

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights or the Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish celebration that remembers God’s deliverance during a time of great oppression. Around 165 BC, the ...

Readings: Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17 John 2:13-22 Here is a phrase you are going to hear a lot in the coming weeks: “Home for the holidays.” Whoever used it first was a ...

The Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome—a feast about a building—can intimidate preachers. The temptation? Mention it briefly and move on to the readings. But Sylvester Tan, S.J.

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