Early Gifts
Are you excited? Did you get it? What, you say? Your gift, your early Christmas gift from Jesus. It was right there, in his conversation this morning, the…
Faith Library
Category: Advent
Articles for the Advent season.
Are you ready?
Something wonderful also is about to happen to you. Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart. As you ready for his joyful coming? Jesus said to…
Advent: The Real Meaning of Christmas Lights
Readings for the 1st Sunday of Advent, November 27, 2016 As fall moves onward towards winter we have places to go, things to do, people to meet. Yet…
Lessons From the Craft Fair
With autumn in the air I have already started to look forward to Advent. I know it seems a bit early but the parish I’m in has already…
The First Believer
Readings for the 4th Sunday of Advent, December 20, 2015 The Beatitudes rank high on the list of all-time favorite Bible passages. But what is “beatitude,” anyway? In…
Mercy Missed
The Gospel reading for the Third Sunday of Advent (or as I liked to call it in my youth, “Pink-Candle-of-Joy, Is-It-Really-Still-TWO-Weeks-Until-Christmas?” Sunday) caught me off-guard this time around.…
Wilderness Dwellers
Sometimes I think that the circumstances that we hear about in the Bible are simply lost on us because we weren’t there. The atmosphere and history of a…
What the Baptist can teach us about Joy
Readings for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, December 13, 2015 On the third Sunday of Advent, the penitential purple of the season changes to rose and we celebrate…
Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Lives
Advent is a time of preparation for the coming of Jesus: a time for us to “be watchful”, to “stay awake, to “prepare the way of the Lord”…
Advent: The Season of Hope
Readings for the 2nd Sunday of Advent, Dec 6, 2015 Faith, hope, and love. St. Paul, in I Corinthians 13:13, say these three are the bottom line. They…