Bellarmine University Our Lady of the Woods Christmas Eve Vigil Mass https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122524-Night.cfm Pray for Peace, People Everywhere Merry Christmas, Bellarmine, to you and your families. If you’re like my family you’ve been hearing and listening to Christmas songs for about a month nonstop. We’ve heard them on our smart speaker, the radio, at Christmas concerts, piano recitals, and St. Agnes’ Christmas pageant. Miriam, Max, and Petra, who are all five years old, have been really into “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Something about the repetition in the song really appeals to their age … while also driving adults a little crazy. When EJ, our oldest, was three, he sang “Jingle Bells” for a solid year. The next year, he started up on “We Three Kings.” Again for a whole year, we were hearing ”Woah … hoh.... Star of wonder…!” Christmas songs can be overwhelming and ines...
These posts are the collected homilies of Deacon Ned Berghausen, permanent deacon of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, assigned to St. Agnes Catholic Church. The title "Foot Washer" refers to the Last Supper (John 13:1-20) in which Jesus washed the feet of the apostles and challenged them, "“Do you realize what I have done for you? If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow."