Are mercy and compassion the same thing? Is this really the year of mercy…or is it really the year of compassion? Find out the answers to these questions when Liz Estler reflects on the new Jubilee Year of Mercy which begins tomorrow, December 8, 2015, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
What spiritual symbolism is contained in the Isaiahan prophecy that a virgin would conceive? Find out when St. Bernard of Clairvaux continues his explication of this Scriptural passage, in part II of II of another of his famous Advent homilies.
Is heaven a real place? Could it be, rather, a state of being? Find out more as Father John Bartunek examines what the Church has to say about this.
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