Advent Message
The New Covenant began with the Immaculate Conception of Mary!
Pope Benedicts Homily 11.28.09
to monopolize our attention? Is it not true that you devote much time to entertainment and amusements of various kinds? Sometimes the things we “overwhelming.” Advent, the liturgical season strong that we are starting, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It ‘an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are signs that God makes to us, signs of the attention that has for each of us. How often God makes us feel something of his love! Hold, so to speak, a “diary interior” of this love would be a task for our beautiful and healthy life! Advent invites us and encourages us to contemplate the Lord. The certainty of his presence should help us see the world through different eyes? It should help us to consider our whole existence as a “visit” as a way he can come to us and become close, in every situation?
St. Augustine’s quote
“Not everything that can be counted counts; not everything that counts can be counted.” – St. Augustine. I am reading an article in the latest issue of Columbia, the Knights of Columbus magazine. This quote has stuck with me all evening. How often we compare ourselves to others in matters of faith. Do you ever [...]
