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November 27: Memorial of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
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November 30: Memorial of St Andrew, Apostle
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December 1: Memorial of St. Edmund Campion
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| "And touching our Society, be it known to you that we have made a league - all the Jesuits in the world - cheerfully to carry the cross you shall lay upon us, and never to despair your recovery, while we have a man left to enjoy your Tyburn, or to be racked with your torments or consumed with your prisons. The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God, it cannot be withstood. So the faith was planted; so it must be restored." [CIN] |
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December 3: Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, missionary
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RAISE YOUR HEADS BECAUSE YOUR REDEMPTION IS AT HAND
If humanity loses the meaning of God, it will close itself to the future and inevitably lose the perspective of its pilgrim journey in time. Why birth, why death? Why sacrifice, why suffering?
By Pope John Paul II
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Gospel for Sunday, December 3, 2006
First Sunday of Advent
Lk: 21:25-28, 34-36
Today, with the First Sunday of Advent we begin a new liturgical year. The God of the covenant revealed himself in history and in history the Church celebrates the mystery of salvation: the Incarnation, Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. In this way, the journey of believers is continually renewed, extending between what Christ has "already" realized and the "not yet" of his full revelation.
God is the future of the human person and of the world. If humanity loses the meaning of God, it will close itself to the future and inevitably lose the perspective of its pilgrim journey in time. Why birth, why death? Why sacrifice, why suffering?
To these questions, Christianity offers a satisfying answer. For this reason, Christ is the hope of humanity. He is the true meaning of our present, because he is our sure future.
Advent reminds us that he has come, and that he will come. The life of believers is a continuous and vigilant waiting for his coming...
...the evangelist points out the final meaning of history and of creation and exhorts us to make of our lives an unceasing quest for Christ. From our being with him and from the contemplation of his countenance come the missionary vigour that will help us to leave our grey daily routine in order to be his courageous witnesses.
On this journey of conversion and of apostolic dedication, Mary, the bright dawn and the sure guide of our steps, accompanies us. She does it in a special way by inviting us to contemplate the joyful mysteries of the Rosary. We look to her with confidence while she prepares us to celebrate... the solemn feast of her Immaculate Conception.
November 27, 2006
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Excerpted from JOHN PAUL II's Angelus address on the first Sunday of Advent, December 1, 2002.
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