For all of my blog followers and friends out there, I hope you had a joyous and meaningful Easter celebration with your family and church family. If you were here at Nativity, we were thrilled to welcome you, along with upwards of 7,000 others between the Triduum and Easter Sunday (as well as thousands more […]
Category: What’s new at Nativity
Easter is here. So that you can have a truly incredible and worshipful experience, our teams of staff and volunteers ministers have put a lot of thought into logistics. If you regularly attend our parish, consider some of these options so that first-time or infrequent visitors, those unfamiliar with our campus and programs, will find […]
In this week’s post, I’d like to introduce you to something we’ve started at Church of the Nativity. We’re pretty excited and we think you will be too. It’s called: the Rebuilt Parish Association, or the “RPA” for short. We officially launched the RPA during our Matter.15 conference this past November. Based on all the […]
“I will suffer and be killed, and then I will be raised.” Luke 9.22 Reading this Gospel passage I always wonder what the original disciples must have felt when they heard these words spoken by Jesus. His message is suffering and death and then a strange promise they did not understand. Furthermore, he tells his disciples, if you […]
Sometimes I like to use this blog as an opportunity to keep readers up-to-date with what’s happening here at Nativity, travels, books, etc. Despite the presidential campaign trail, I’m a little busy with a different kind of “congress” this month. These next few weeks will be Catholic “congress” season. Right now, we’re right in the […]
Just a quick update on Christmas plans here. Christmas Eve morning I will be appearing on Catholic TV offering the daily TV Mass (9:30 E.S.T. rebroadcast at 7:00pm). If you don’t get Catholic TV you can always watch their live stream at catholictv.com. Later, we will be at the Cow Palace on Christmas Eve for […]
Despite what you may have heard, Christmas still matters to most people, including the unchurched. The reasons many people come to church on Christmas Eve may be nothing more than to please a family member or sing carols. But it’s the church’s job to transform that experience and use it as an opportunity for evangelization. […]
It never fails to amaze me. It just gets earlier and earlier every year. Christmas is officially on the mind of almost every American. If you haven’t started already, your church is probably already planning to buy your Advent candles, wreaths, and lights for Christmas. But have you and your staff sat down together to […]
If you were with us for Matter 15 there is nothing I need say, nothing I could say that would adequately express the experience. This post is for those of you who couldn’t join us. And to tell you the truth, I hesitated even making the post at the risk of sounding self-congratulatory. But, frankly, […]
Matter has mass and occupies volume. Our Catholic faith is grounded in matter: The Sacraments of the Church and the Incarnation of the Lord all rely on matter. Our parish churches are all about matter: people, buildings, a geographical location, and parish boundaries. Matter also refers to meaning and importance and is a value we […]
