Advent

Don’t miss these local opportunities to prepare for the coming of Christ.

“Advent reminds us that a baby, like the little ones that grace your life, a Little One was born for us in time and that event was the real intergalactic moment that transformed human history.”

The Advent season is a gift — one that helps us to focus less on ourselves and more clearly and intentionally on the One who is coming.

“Rushing to have and do all the things and readying stuff to look at and cling to does nothing to help us let Christ rush into our lives and ready our hearts for the kingdom of heaven.”

“Sometimes in this busy world, we need some help to put ourselves in a waiting frame of mind. Brew a cup of tea, settle into a comfortable chair and let a good spiritual writer help you put aside the busyness of this season.”

Through sharing the Catholic faith, exploring culture and praying with Scripture, those who attend this Zoom discussion group will foster cultural humility to engage with differences as disciples of Christ.

“Pondering the Gospel scene of the Annunciation prepares us to welcome the newborn Jesus through the eyes of the graced woman who prepared most intimately for our Lord’s birth, his mother Mary.”

“Wow are we to be, as St. John Paul II says in one of his poems, ‘more with Him, / more with Him, not merely with oneself’? The answer is to imitate Christ, to imitate Mary — to make of ourselves a gift.”