Why Catholics Went to Mass on December 8, a Thursday

This post is a day late ... but perhaps it's just fitting. We usually reflect after an event, and yesterday was busy. In the middle of a still busy work at the end of the day, I ran to attend Mass with my family, wearing my white Extraordinary Minister's uniform to help the priest distribute the Eucharist to mass goers.

Yesterday was a day of obligation for Catholics. It was the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

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Now what is that?

Outside of God, where else could we really go?

Gratitude ... that's the one word that I believe summarizes the gospel today.

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Yesterday, I was reading an article about how science begins to acknowledge the biblical account of creation as that which more closely relates with their findings - a starting point for everything (the Big Bang) and a seemingly grand design that underpins them all.