Turn to the Example of a Sinful and Scandalous Saint!When we feel like there is no hope for our lost loved ones and no amount of prayers seem to work, Fr. Chris Alar gives us an inspiring lesson and example in St. Monica and St. Augustine.  

The readings for this homily: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122325.cfm Christmas does not begin when the stores say it does. It begins with prayer. As Fr. Chris Alar, MIC explains, the Church enters Christmas at Vespers on Christmas Eve, because the mystery we celebrate is not sentimentality but the Incarnation itself — God entering history to heal what humanity could never repair on its own.

What are the signs, as foretold in Scripture, that will precede the end times and the second coming of Christ? Join Fr. Chris Alar, MIC, in this first of a 3-part series as he explains the signs and talks with Daniel O’Connor, an expert on eschatology, the study of the end times.