by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“Every Advent, the Liturgy of the Word gives our sense of time a reorientation. There’s a deliberate tension in the next four weeks’ readings—between promise and fulfillment, expectation and deliverance, between looking forward and looking back. …”
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“… The Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ’s second coming at the end of time and also to the anniversary of the Lord’s birth on Christmas. The final days of Advent, from December 17 to December 24, focus particularly on our preparation for the celebrations of the Nativity of our Lord
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O Glorious Saint Andrew, you were the first to recognize and follow the Lamb of God. With your friend Saint John you remained with Jesus for that first day, for your entire life, and now throughout eternity. As you led your brother Saint Peter to Christ and many others after him, draw us also to Him. Teach us to lead
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Andrew, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, was the first disciple of our Lord. Prior to coming to Jesus, Andrew had been a follower or disciple of John the Baptist. One day while walking with John, Jesus passed by. St. John, seeing Jesus, pointed Him out to Andrew and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” Realizing that John was saying that
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“… He, the obedient Servant, is King because He has ‘the keys of death and Hades’ (Rv 1:18). And, because He is the conqueror of death, hell and Satan, He is “the ruler of kings on earth” (Rv 1:5). In fact, everything on earth is subject to death. Instead, He who has power over death opens the prospect of immortal
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“The Thanksgiving holiday that is upon us, while religious in theme, has a secular origin. Two presidents, Washington and Lincoln, are most responsible for its existence on our national calendar in late November ….”
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“… We must understand the Miracles of our Lord and Savior … to believe that they have been truly done and that their meaning still signifies something else …. We do not know the historical identity of the blind man, but we know whom he mystically denotes. The blind man is the human race. In our first parents it was
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“On the last day of their fall meeting, the U.S. bishops’ conference voted down a resolution that would have ‘encouraged’ the Holy See to release all documents on the allegations of sexual misconduct against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. … Cardinal William Levada, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said he did not support the resolution because
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“… Why, then, did [God] build, or cause to be built, a temple? To prefigure Christ’s Body. … The True Temple, the Lord’s Body, also fell but has been Raised Up again, and raised up in such a way it will fall no more .… [O]ur bodies, joined to Christ our Head [] … together form … God’s temple. Together
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“… some people … resist, disbelieve, or even hate God … [or] engage[] in serious sins [yet] there are even more who have simply fallen into indifference and drifted away from God and the things of Heaven. … What makes this sort of rejection of God’s invitation so pernicious … Many today who live very secular lives, giving little or
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