🕯️ADVENT – A TIME FOR REFLECTION🕯️ “Advent is the time to prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ, not just at Christmas but every day.” ~ Unknown ~ Reflections Leading Up to Christmas: Gratitude: Recall moments and people you’re thankful for this year. Kindness: Reflect on simple acts of compassion, given or […]
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At the year’s end, God comes – Christ is coming – as a baby at Christmas, coming into the dailiness of our lives, and at the end of time. It may seem odd at the beginning of Advent to hear Jesus speak of the second coming, but when Jesus says we’re to watch and stay awake, he doesn’t say it to play on our fears. Instead, he calls us to be alert to the signs of God’s presence in our lives, encouraging us to have faith in God who is present in the person with whom we are talking, and in the smallest act, though we may only come to understand this sometime later.
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Jokes A woman walks into a bar and sees a really cute bloke sitting at the counter. She goes over and asks him what he is drinking. “Magic Beer,” he says. She thinks he’s a little crazy, so she walks around the bar, but after noticing that there is no one else worth talking to,
Br Huy, a Redemptorist, has created a song called Mary and the Hope of Advent. Please listen, as we enter the second week of Advent, a time of repentance and looking ahead.
John the Baptist is preaching at the River Jordan. After listening to him, three different groups ask a simple question, “What must we do?” John replies to each group separately, according to their way of life.
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🕯️ THE GIFT OF ADVENT 🕯️ “Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.”~ Pope Francis ~ Advent is a time to reflect on the spirit of giving and compassion. It’s more than counting down the days to Christmas; it’s a season to open our hearts
At the year’s end, God comes – Christ is coming – as a baby at Christmas, coming into the dailiness of our lives, and at the end of time. It may seem odd at the beginning of Advent to hear Jesus speak of the second coming, but when Jesus says we’re to watch and stay awake, he doesn’t say it to play on our fears. Instead, he calls us to be alert to the signs of God’s presence in our lives, encouraging us to have faith in God who is present in the person with whom we are talking, and in the smallest act, though we may only come to understand this sometime later.
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Jokes There were two brothers who were the most notorious criminals in a country town. When one of them died, the surviving brother went to the local priest and said, “I’ll donate $10 million to the church if you give the eulogy, but you have to say nice things and tell everyone my brother was
