Our lives are marked by the light we have seen.“ The opening of the first reading has washed over us year after year: The people who wander in darkness have seen a great light. While we walk through this strange year with much darkness, we remain the people who have seen the light that is […]
God’s life is with us, and in us, and through us. David and Mary get very similar messages from God through the prophet Nathan and the angel Gabriel in these readings for the fourth and final Sunday of Advent: God is with you exactly as you are, residing within you. David is hung up about […]
“He has anointed me to bring life to the world in all things.“ In Advent, we celebrate that Jesus comes among us and, in time, we learn His mission is also ours. In the second reading, we are reminded to rejoice in all circumstances because God is with us, working in and through us. Right […]
2nd Sunday in Advent – Life flows through change, not around it. The first lines of the first reading are especially apt in this Advent during a pandemic: “Comfort my people…speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim that her service is at an end.” As an old Testament reading, this text seeks to console the Israelites […]
1st Sunday in Advent – Today we begin the season of Advent, which marks the start of a new liturgical year for the Church. Today’s Gospel is taken from the end of Mark’s Gospel, the chapter that immediately precedes Mark’s account of Jesus’ Passion. Having been questioned repeatedly by the scribes and the Pharisees, Jesus is […]