Tag: Advent

When I reflect on Mary, mother of God, often my admiration and gratitude for her life of fidelity, faith and wisdom cannot be expressed...

Something about Advent, and the Christmas season that succeeds it (or, in the secular sphere, envelops it), draws the eye to beauty. We gently unwrap...

Throughout Advent and the Christmas season, I like to revisit the infancy narratives of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. There is so much...

Waiting isn't easy, and yet Advent asks of us just that: to wait on the Lord. Sometimes in this busy world, we need some help...

The second reading for the Third Sunday of Advent is a place of personal resonance: "Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer...

Sunday Scripture readings, Dec. 5, 2021: Second Sunday of Advent 1) Bar 5:1-9   Psalm 126:1-6 2) Phil 1:4-6, 8-11   Gospel: Lk 3:1-6 God's fulfillment of his plans...

What are you waiting for this Christmas? We have spent so much time in the last two years waiting. Waiting fearfully to see if...

As we enter the second week of Advent, things are ramping up in anticipation of Christmas. That means we are well on our way...

Sunday Scripture readings, Nov. 28, 2021: First Sunday of Advent 1) Jer 33:14-16  Psalm 25:4-5, 8-10, 14 2) 1 Thes 3:12-4:2  Gospel: Lk 21:25-28, 34-36 Be watchful,...

Waiting has always been a central theme of Advent. But who is it we wait for? The Messiah? Is Our Lord Jesus not already here? Before...