Third Sunday of Advent 2019 – Let Nothing Disturb You
"So many threats to our security can cause us anxiety. I could be anxious about having to perform or prove myself in some way."...
"So many threats to our security can cause us anxiety. I could be anxious about having to perform or prove myself in some way."...
" I was thinking of them as I used Magi stamps on some of my Christmas cards, remembering the creche under the tree in my boyhood home was never complete without all the animals, sheep, oxen, donkey, AND camels! "...
"Thomas Merton, noted that although Jesus was born in a stable far removed from the hub of power and influence, he is still more easily recognised by the culturally marginalised and the poor. Merton said: “His peace is with those others for whom there is no room.”"...
"Let’s ask him for new sight of radical trust, so that we may cast out fear and anxiety from our lives."...
"How are we challenged on the Second Sunday of Advent? A good starting point is to ask ourselves if we are in need of the kind of repentance that John speaks of."...
"Being baptized by fire and the Holy Spirit is to be met with the consummate fire of God’s love."...
" Keep awake, you must be ready. The time has come for us to rise from a spiritual slumber."...
" . . . it is sometimes necessary to awaken ourselves from the dreamy stupors we may have permitted to take hold in us."...
"Jesus the leader is not afraid to challenge those whom he senses need that challenge. But he also knows how to affirm the ones who are bent over and living with fear, bondage and physical infirmity."...