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7 December - Second Sunday in Advent
NEWS OF COMFORT
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n a time of preparation, much of it having to do with material things, it is good to hear the words of Isaiah, “Comfort, give comfort to my people, / says your God” (Isaiah 40:1).
In a time of such stress and rush, when our usual burdens are augmented by piles of Christmas preparations, we can choose to slow down, take some time to heal, and appreciate the enormous gift we are about to receive. Christ, the Son of God, has become one of us, and knows our human limitations. Yet God, even now, is freeing us from the burdens that our inattentiveness to our God and to our deepest inner longings have heaped upon us. The Lord comes, not as a king with mighty armies, but as a shepherd leading the flocks with care and tenderness. Isaiah prophesies good news: our oppression is over, our sins forgiven. The savior we have awaited is coming, not the first time, but in the end times, as our salvation.
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Two centuries ago, Archbishop John Carroll
worried that Americans would not appreciate the
linguistic veil over our worship, and asked that the
liturgy in the new United States be in English, not Latin.
How did our liturgy come to be in Latin in the first
place? In the first century, the dominant language in the
regions where the church first flourished was Greek.
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Stewardship Reflection “The kindly man will be blessed, for he giveds of his sustenance to the poor.” (Proverbs 22:9)
Stewardship is the giving from our sustenance so deeply that this gift of our time, talent and treasure becomes a blessing to us as well as to those who benefit from our ministry of service.
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