Matthew 11. 2-11 / Luke 1. 46-55 The lessons from today’s teaching highlight the roles of two prophets in the Jesus story during this time of Advent. From the Gospel of Matthew, we have Jesus proclaiming the greatness of John the Baptist – the voice crying out in the wilderness – and his prophetic role of preparing the way for the incarnation of God in Jesus.   It was from the wilderness that God chose to announce that God’s reign of justice and peace was coming in the form of God’s Son and...

ADVENT / CHRISTMAS 2025     “What if we close our eyes right now and are interiorly awakened so that when we opened our eyes, we would see through our own awakened eyes what Jesus saw in all that he saw. What would we see? We would see God. Because Jesus saw God in all that he saw.    What is stunning is that it didn’t matter if Jesus saw his own mother or a prostitute. It didn’t matter whether he saw the joy of those gathered at a wedding or the sorrow of the burial of a loved one. It didn’t...

As we move toward the Holy Nativity and Christmas, we hear stories of John the Baptist, Mary, the Archangel Gabriel, the dream of Joseph, the journey to Bethlehem, and the mystic stargazers from the East. We are given rich opportunities to anticipate the coming of Jesus and reflect on what it all means in our lives.    The Advent stories are part of the belief narrative that Christ has come and will come again. It is a narrative that looks both to the past and to the future but is best...