5 Advent and Christmas Inspired Cocktails to Enjoy During the Holiday Season
Enjoy the holiday season with a good drink and a proper toast!
Tom Perna is the soon-to-be Director of Mission and Hospitality in Dining Services at the University of Mary in Bismarck, ND. In this position, he will enhance and develop Catholic culture within the dining experience. He starts in January 2021. Since 2012, Tom has been writing on this website – TomPerna.org. When he is not working or writing, he enjoys spending time with his wife and young son.
Enjoy the holiday season with a good drink and a proper toast!
When I hear Saint Peter Chrysologus’ nickname, “Golden-Worded”, my mind automatically transports me back to the 1995 James Bond film, GoldenEye.
“It is the task of the Holy Spirit to put into the disciples’ hearts the same joy that Jesus had, the joy of faithfulness to the love which comes from the Father.”
Do you know the history of one of our sweetest anthipons?
“Give me an army that prays the Rosary and I will conquer the world.”
He is known as the patron of bees, beekeepers, and candlemakers, but also known as the Patron of the Veneration of Mary.
With so many children returning to school over the last few weeks (at least here in Arizona) and with so many more returning after Labor Day in other parts of the country, I found it fitting to write this article. Teaching theology to high school students was one the best albeit hardest experiences I have …
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Around the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time we celebrate the memorial for a saint and Doctor of the Church that probably many people do not know: Saint Lawrence of Brindisi. He was born Cesare De Rossi in Brindisi, Italy, within the kingdom of Naples in 1559. He received his first education from the Conventual Franciscans …
The month of June marks the anniversary of the death of “the Apostle of Common Sense”, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, most notably known as G.K. Chesterton. In a time when an hyper-sensitive culture needs more common sense than ever before, we should be reading thisprolific and prophetic writer to remind ourselves that the culture didn’t just change overnight, but …
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As we approach the summer months, the temptation to dress casually for Sunday Mass increases exponentially. Why this is the case probably has to do with the culture in which we live as well as the rise in more casual services across the religious spectrum. Although this would make a good article and a philosophical …
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