Advent

Jenna Marie Cooper, who holds a licentiate in canon law, provides direction related to advent hymns and other liturgical traditions.

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Although it’s not as common as a personal Lenten penance, it is still very much in keeping with the nature of the Advent season to take on an additional penance for Advent.

All four Gospels acclaim St. John the Baptist and set him apart from others. From before his birth, he was chosen by God to announce, baptize and identify Jesus as the long-awaited Messiah.

Father Robert J. Hater invites us to shift our attitude of waiting from looking to some distant past or future to the waiting that happens in everyday life which affords the opportunity to reflect and respond as Jesus would.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. realized that a revolution of values is the true end o nonviolence.

As Catholics, we stand before two doors: secular time and church time. The ancient Greeks — and thus the early church — had two words for these different senses of time. Chronos is chronological: earthly, ordinary, one day after the next. Kairos, on the other hand, is sacred: extraordinary, holy and perfect whenever it interrupts our daily lives.

During Advent, we spend four weeks trying to balance ourselves. Like standing in the middle of a seesaw, we often have one foot in the materialistic world of gifts, decorating and parties, while the other foot is in the spiritual world of prayerfully expecting the miracle of Christ’s birth.