Her prayer, "Let it happen through me according ... hastening the coming of the day of our God." The Second Sunday of Advent calls us into the sort of waiting that actually hastens the fulfillment ...

Once we have contemplated them and their plight, we can pray for them, aware – better said, forewarned – that God may work through our prayer ... stage in the Second Week of Advent.

and they will be definitively fulfilled with the second advent and the eternal order. 3) What does the responsorial Psalm for this Sunday say? The responsorial psalm for this Sunday is a selection ...

Still, noted Lomnitzer during this season of Advent in 2023, there was more to come. "As the drama of God’s revelation intensifies, John the Baptist now appears, unlike any of the other prophets ...

Pope Benedict XVI Saint John Paul II offered a beautiful prayer for this season of hopeful anticipation: O Mother of our Advent, be with us and see to it that he will remain with us in this ...

But what he does is carefully matched to the action of the forerunner of the second part of Isaiah’s prophecy (Isaiah ... which hosted the earliest centres of Christianity. The prayer that opens the ...

Advent, from “adventus” in Latin meaning “coming,” is the season encompassing the four Sundays and weekdays leading up to Christmas, according to Britannica. In the Christian church ...

The title? The Baptiser. Besides teaching the new church in Philippi, Paul also prays for it. This gives us another model for our own Advent prayers: “This is my prayer, that your love may overflow ...