John Foley, SJ
Life chose as its home the highest mountains, the coldest specks of ice, the hottest flaming deserts, and even these original depths of oceans. As a mother loves her children, God loved this abundant “life.”
Ron Rolheiser
Advent: Creating a Space of Chastity
Chastity is 90% about proper waiting. It’s for this reason that one of the rich metaphors of Advent is that of preparing a virgin’s womb so that the divine can be born in a proper way.
Eleonore Stump
To give comfort to someone is to lend him some of your strength. He is more able to stand on his own feet and walk because you are with him.
Gerald Darring
The challenge of Advent is to clear a straight path for God: to “remove the things that hinder us from receiving Christ with joy.”
Anne Osdieck
This reading says that the Lord “is patient with you.” Granting this, are you patient with others? For instance, how do you react when a car cuts you off, or when you are blamed falsely?