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The feast speaks to us, by example of the Blessed Virgin, of the uniqueness of our individual creation – God’s conception of us in His eternal mind and His purposing us by our physical conception. Just as Our Lady was intended by God from all time to be the vessel and tabernacle of the Incarnate Word, so too are we each purposed by God to play a role in the salvation of mankind…
Lisa continues her reading from Spiritual Steps to Christmas by the Very Reverend Msgr. Aloysius Coogan. Spiritual Steps to Christmas
Consider that sin is the death of the soul, because this enemy of God deprives us of Divine grace, which is the life of the soul. We, therefore, miserable sinners, were already by our sins dead and condemned to hell. God, through the immense love which He bears to our souls, determined to restore us to life; and how did He do so? He sent His only-begotten Son into the world to die, in order that by His death He might restore us to life.
Father Timothy Geckle reads from the Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. The Liturgical Year: Second Sunday in Advent
The Office of this Sunday is filled, from beginning to end, with the sentiments of hope and joy, with which the soul should be animated at the glad tidings of the speedy coming of Him who is her Savior and Spouse…
Instead of soft garments the Infant Jesus has but a few poor, rough, cold, damp rags. “The Creator of the Angels,” says St. Peter Damian, “is not said to be clothed in purple but to have been wrapped in rags.” Everything that is in Heaven and on earth is God’s: The world is mine, and the fulness thereof (Ps. xlix. 12).
In tribulations God enriches His beloved souls with the greatest graces. It is in his chains that St. John comes to the knowledge of the works of Jesus Christ. Let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which we are chastised have happened for our amendment and not for our destruction (Judith, viii. 27).
✠Jerome of Selsey explores and explains the theology, themes and traditions of the Traditional Roman Rite liturgies of the Sundays in Advent…
St Ambrose, Bishop Confessor & Doctor of the Church
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation