Third Sunday of Advent – Year C What does a person ask of life, if not happiness? The Hebrew Bible employs something like twenty-seven synonyms to express feelings of joy. Nothing is more contrary to the Bible, then, than the religion of sorrow, of mourning, of the frowning faces that we sometimes see in […]
December 8, Wednesday SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT Mary leads the way for all the people who journey toward the Lord. Today the Church applies to Mary, the virgin conceived without sin, the words of the prophet: “I exult for joy in the Lord, my soul rejoices in my God.” Why this joy? Because Mary […]
Reflection: Luke1:26-38 St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians reminds the community there that God has filled us with every spiritual blessings in order that his Church be holy and blameless before him. What St. Paul describes as God’s gift to his Children, is similar to what Luke describes about Mary through the mouth […]
SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Paradise Restored in Mary Greeting (See Second Reading) We are called in Christ to be holy and spotless. and, like Mary, to live in God’s presence. May we respond to God’s call and may our Lord be always with you. R/ And also with you. Introduction […]
THE LOOM OF THE CLARETIAN FAMILY December 5, 2021 We began the second day of our encounter wishing to place life in the heart of God. We continue to be guided by the story “The Chance of Love”, written for the Claretian Family by Ángel Gómez. The Cordimarian Missionary Sisters have invited us to unite in […]