"If the Infant Christ is fostered in us, no life is trivial. No life is impotent before suffering, no suffering is too trifling to heal the world, too little to redeem, to be the point at which the world's healing begins."

-Caryll Houselander

 

Saint Damasus I - Glorious Mysteries

Pray and Sacrifice for Bishop W. Michael Mulvey of Corpus Christi

Pro-Life Women Comprise the Real Women’s Movement, by Jennifer Roback Morse at NCR

A Rare Caravaggio Portrait Was Hidden Away for Years. Now, Visitors Can See It in Person for the First Time, by Sonja Anderson at Smithsonian 

Cooking with Eggnog: Three Spirited Holiday Recipes, by Katherine Cobbs at Garden & Gun 

ICYMI: Forgiveness and Irony, by Roger Scruton at City Journal 

The Space People Struggle to Style the Most—And How to Master It, by Erika Owen at Domino

Getting Adult Children to Christmas Mass, by Greg Erlandson at OSV

Rare New England Coin From 1652 Found in an Old Cabinet Sells for $2.52 Million at Auction, by Regina Sienra at MMM

Notre Dame Chief Architect Reveals Devotion to Our Lady Who Gave Him Strength to Complete Restoration, by Oleńka Hamilton at Catholic Herald

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Marked down today only: our delicate Madonna and Child Relief! The work of award-winning artist, Thomas Marsh.