Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection for the readings and Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Advent, Dec. 21, 2025.

This was before 24-hour news, before television itself. What there was to see was limited to a British Pathé newsreel, which people would have watched in movie theaters before the main feature. This ...

It is the most painful memory of my childhood. I wish I could report that it was some sorrow that I suffered, but I am the one who produced the pain. And for one who was so dear to me! My family was ...