Today, we begin the home stretch of our Advent season of anticipation…with the countdown of the ‘O Antiphons’…a thousand-year-old liturgical tradition that will continue through Christmas Eve. So perhaps a holy pause is in order, to savor the first in the series:
O Wisdom of our God Most High,
guiding creation with power and love:
come to teach us the path of knowledge!
I fully expected to do a little dancing inside the prison today. Alas, it was not to be.
At times, I wish Jesus wasn’t quite so good about keeping his promises.
It seems an odd choice, for Pope Francis to make today’s feast the starting point for the Jubilee of Mercy.
Leaving lunch yesterday, a friend mentioned how hard it’s been for him to get Advent to “take” this year.
Would you ever consider adopting Andrew as a spiritual model for the Advent season?
With Us Still 