2nd Sunday of Advent 2022

2nd Sunday of Advent 2022

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT Last Sunday in our Advent preparation for Christmas, we looked first at the end of our journey to help us focus our minds more clearly on the meaning of Christmas and the meaning of God coming to live among us as one of us. In the 2nd part of...
First Sunday of Advent 2022

First Sunday of Advent 2022

Happy New Year! Advent marks the beginning of a new year in the Church. This is a season of waiting. In our worship each week, we mark the passage of our time of waiting by lighting another candle on our Advent Wreath. These candles symbolize our faith in the coming...
Fourth Sunday of Advent 2021

Fourth Sunday of Advent 2021

Today we encounter two people in our Gospel Reading: two expectant mothers. Elizabeth is too old and has been childless for a long time and Mary is almost too young and not married. Elizabeth has a lot of history behind her; Mary has a lot of history ahead of her. The...
Third Sunday of Advent 2021

Third Sunday of Advent 2021

GAUDETE SUNDAY = Rejoice Sunday! Is the third Sunday of Advent, this day expresses the joy of anticipation at the approach of the birth of our Lord. We are invited to rejoice because the Lord is near. Zephaniah 3: 14 – 18; Philippians 4: 4 – 7; Luke 3: 10 -18 St...
Second Sunday of Advent 2021

Second Sunday of Advent 2021

2nd Sunday of Advent Year C Baruch 5: 1-9, Phil 1: 4-6,8-11, Luke 3: 4. 6 Sometimes when people point out something that is wrong with us, we see what they are saying, recognize it as true but proceed to do nothing about it. Recognizing the truth does not compel us to...
First Sunday of Advent 2021

First Sunday of Advent 2021

A Knights Hope This weekend, as we light the first purple candle of the Advent wreath in anticipation of the coming of the Christ child, we focus on the virtue of hope. As described in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, hope is the confident expectation of divine...