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Advent Wreath Prayer Service for Fourth Sunday of Advent

Posted on December 17, 2021December 3, 2025 by FRESHImage

This weekend marks the fourth and final Sunday of Advent. In just a few days now, we will celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Just what His coming means for us we have reflected upon with the help of the “O Antiphons” of Adv...
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Advent Wreath Prayer Service for Third Sunday of Advent

Posted on December 10, 2021December 3, 2025 by FRESHImage

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Indeed the Lord is near.” This is the beginning of the Church’s prayer for this Third Sunday of Advent, also known as Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete is the Latin imperative, rejoice! And so today, my d...
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Advent: A Penitential Season

Posted on November 19, 2021November 21, 2025 by FRESHImage

Dearest Friends in Christ, Years ago, the Season of Advent was considered to parallel the Season of Lent as a time of preparation and a time of repentance appropriate for acts of penance. This is seen in various ways. Most ostensibly in ...
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Advent is Quickly Approaching

Posted on November 18, 2021November 19, 2025 by FRESHImage

Dearest Friends in Christ, Advent is a time of waiting, a time of preparation. Unfortunately, for many of us Advent is often characterized by the busyness of preparing for all the various holiday celebrations we take part in, at work, at our ...
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Mary: A Woman of the Word

Posted on October 6, 2021June 6, 2022 by Tony Crescio

Happy Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary! “Do whatever he tells you” (John 2:5). With this short statement, Mary gives us the Christian program for life, a regiment which she had followed very closely, not only after giving birth to the Son o...
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Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

Posted on October 2, 2021October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

Blessed Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels to you! Today’s celebration of the Guardian Angels has the tendency to take us back to childhood. After all, for many of us, the prayer to our guardian angel is among the first we learn. Angel o...
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Learning Asceticism from the Desert Fathers and Mothers

Posted on March 15, 2021March 11, 2024 by FRESHImage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oksD-v8-JWI Welcome to another installment of FRESHImage Presents! We’re at the midway point of the Lenten Season, and if we’ve really decided to challenge ourselves this Lent to grow in holiness and ...
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Perpetua & Felicity: Striving for Eternal Happiness

Posted on March 7, 2021October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

The desire for happiness is a universal human experience. From of old philosophers have constructed their theories of what it means to live a good life based on this self-evident truth and have sought to articulate for the human family the path ...
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We Dare to Say: The Lord’s Prayer as Penitential Practice

Posted on March 3, 2021February 26, 2024 by Tony Crescio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRv_6c3SGbo Welcome to FRESHImage Presents! Have you ever felt like you were just rattling off the words of the Lord’s Prayer and not really praying them? I know I have! We all have, we all get distracted...
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Polycarp: A Patron Saint for Lent

Posted on February 23, 2021February 18, 2023 by Tony Crescio

February 23rd Today the Church commemorates one of the most acclaimed figures of its early life, St. Polycarp, bishop and martyr. The greatness of Polycarp’s reputation is really astounding when one considers how little we know of his life. H...
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