First Sunday of Advent: We are Not Preparing for the Birth of Jesus. We are Preparing for His Second Coming and Preparing for Receiving the Grace of . . .
Fr. Hugh Gillespie, SMM
First Sunday of Advent: We are Not Preparing for the Birth of Jesus. We are Preparing for His Second Coming and Preparing for Receiving the Grace of . . .
Many Christians confuse the meaning of Advent. We are not preparing for the birth of Jesus. We are not preparing for the Nativity. That happened two thousand years ago! We are Preparing to celebrate the Nativity. We are also Preparing for His Second Coming! We are Preparing to Ask for Grace. Grace for what?
Listen to the Gospel and Homily of the First Sunday of Advent. Understand what we are preparing for and what Grace we ask heaven for during this season. Listen to this Meditation Media.
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The Nativity: Italian Painter and Artist: Federico Barocci: approximately 1590
Notice, the light comes from the child Jesus, the light of the world. The blue mantel that normally covers Mary, covers the Lord. Our Lord, humbled himself to be clothed in humanity. Mary welcomes the Nativity Scene as the Light from Our Lord streaks across Mary. Mary reaches out to the Lord, as she does all her children.
First Sunday of Advent: Preparing for His Second Coming and Preparing for Receiving the Grace of . . .
