Saturday of the Second Week of Advent The current battle over the values Till like a fire there appeared the prophet [Elijah] whose words were as a flaming furnace. You were taken aloft in a whirlwind, in a chariot with fiery horses. You are destined,… Read More »ENFL012
Friday of the Second Week of Advent The gospel of the joy and of the peace “To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did… Read More »ENFL011
Thursday of the Second Week of Advent The privileges of the Kingdom Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the… Read More »ENFL010
Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent The prayer of the heart “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart;… Read More »ENFL009
Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent God and the man in the Bible What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of… Read More »ENFL008
The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Immaculate Conception In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the… Read More »ENSM038
Second Sunday of Advent The spirit of the Advent In the fifteenth year of the empire of Cesar Tiberius, while Pontious Pilate was the governor of the Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee and Philip, his brother, tetrarch of the Iturea and of the Traconitides and… Read More »ENFS128
Saturday of the First Week of Advent The strategy of Jesus At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is… Read More »ENFL006
Friday of the First Week of Advent The first heralds of the gospel And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed (him), crying out, “Son of David, have pity on us!” When he entered the house, the blind men approached him and… Read More »ENFL005
Thursday of the First Week of Advent To be really converted “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. “Everyone who listens to these words of… Read More »ENFL004
