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• Faith Calls Us to Be Neighbors: Christmas Night with the Shepherds

  
  

  • By Elizabeth Hughes
  • On December 25, 2017

  Editor’s note: Elizabeth Hughes is the Executive Director of FMS. After our Advent reflections on experiences of hospitality, she invites you to join her in a Christmas imaginative prayer, accompanying the shepherds to welcome Jesus […]

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• Comfort and Joy: Peace on Earth Begins with Birth

  
  

  • By Janice Smullen
  • On December 5, 2015

  Editor’s note: As part of our “Comfort and Joy” Advent/Christmas blog series, current missioner Janice Smullen reflects on the joy that she’s received from her role as a doula, a person who is trained to assist a woman […]

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• Advent 2013: The Light of One

  
  

  • By Franciscan Mission Service
  • On December 1, 2013

  Today’s beginning of Advent coincides with World AIDS Day. The 2013 World AIDS Day theme is “Shared Responsibility”. As we learn the facts about HIV and put that knowledge into compassionate action, we also recommit […]

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• Prayers for Christmas: Joy to the World!

  
  

  • By Franciscan Mission Service
  • On December 25, 2011

  “Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And Heaven and nature sing, And Heaven and nature sing, And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature […]

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