Advent Meditations: Sunday 24 December

Dec 24, 2023 by

Sun Dec 24 am: 45, 46 pm: 89:1-29 am: Isa 35:1-10 pm: Isa 59:15b-21 am: Rev 22:12-17 pm: Phil 2:5-11 Luke 1:67-80 The Vigil for the Feast of the Nativity – (Also known as Christmas Eve) MEDITATION- The Gospel for the Office reading helps...

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Awaiting the Second Advent

Dec 23, 2023 by

By Matthew Kuchem, Public Discourse. Christmas hope is grounded both in the reality of Christ’s first advent and also in the reality that he will come again to fully establish the peace his princely rule has promised. This is one of the...

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Advent Meditations: Saturday 23 December

Dec 23, 2023 by

Sat Dec 23 am: 50, 59, 60 pm: 33 Isa  9:18-10:4 2 Pet 2:10b-16 Matt 3:1-12 Saturday of Advent III – –O Emmanuel BIBLICAL MEDITATION: The Gospel today is one we associate with an earlier time in Advent but it is in fact a theme that...

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Advent Meditations: Friday 22 December

Dec 22, 2023 by

Fri Dec 22 am: 40, 54 pm: 51 Isa 10:5-19 2 Pet 2:17-22 Matt 11:2-15 ON THE LITURGICAL CALENDAR-  St. Frithbert of Hexham, Bishop 766 As bishop of Hexham, which he governed for 34 years, and, in the interim, he also administered...

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Advent Prepares Us for Mission

Dec 21, 2023 by

By Patrick Schreiner, TGC. Advent is a time when Christians gather. However, Advent can also remind us how we’ve been called to scatter. In the Great Commission, Jesus sends his followers to make disciples of all nations (Matt. 28:19). We...

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Advent Meditations: Thursday 21 December

Dec 21, 2023 by

Thu Dec 21 am: 50, 59, 60 pm: 33 Isa  9:18-10:4 2 Pet 2:10b-16 Matt 3:1-12 ON THE LITURGICAL CALENDAR Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle   St. Thomas, the disciple who at first did not believe, has become for the Church one of the first...

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