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What We Do in December

I owe many apologies for my spotty posting. Several of you have emailed to let me know you’re pining for a patristic fix. A few days back I excused myself with December’s publishing deadlines and Advent’s speaking demands. Today I’ll add a third excuse — and then get back immediately to blogging, I promise!

My day job, as you may know, is vice-president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. So for me, as for many others who work in the apostolate, late-December means end-of-year fundraising. Many people want to give because it’s the spirit of the season — and, in the United States, the Internal Revenue Service blesses such giving by allowing you to deduct it from your federal income taxes. (God bless us, everyone!) Now, as every December, we at the St. Paul Center have been hustling to accommodate very generous donors.

Please consider joining their ranks as our supporter. Our mission is to promote biblical literacy for the laity and biblical fluency for clergy and Church teachers. We provide free online Bible studies. We travel to train catechists in leading Bible-study groups. We sponsor annual academic conferences, clergy conferences, pilgrimages, and other educational events. We publish an annual journal, a monograph series, and a monthly newsletter. We also make available, absolutely free, weekly homily helps, based on the lectionary. We post them in English and Spanish, and broadcast them, too, in both languages. We are currently having all our free online studies translated into Spanish.

Visit our website and you’ll see that our methods are rooted in the Fathers, the ancient liturgies, and the great Tradition.

When you give to the St. Paul Center, you do a lot of good for the world. You make my day. And you free me up for blogging instead of begging!

Christmas blessings!