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Stay awake and let God stir your soul!

Advent is a time for soul stirring! Our readings for this first Sunday of the new liturgical year are rousing and exciting with a hint of foreboding.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

As Americans we can find it very difficult to relate to this feast because we have no experience of living with a “king.”
Become a fire of healing and justice!

As we saw last week, we are moving swiftly to the end of this Liturgical Year. Jesus is turning up the heat, if you will, by raising our awareness about what is vital and what will be swept away at the end of the “age.”
The end is near!

That is the end of the Liturgical Year. In a few weeks, we will celebrate the feast of Christ the King of the Universe, the finale of the Year of Grace 2021!
Be like Zacchaeus!

The Gospel we proclaim this Sunday features a rather enigmatic figure, one whom we read about only in this Gospel passage: Zacchaeus.

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Stay awake and let God stir your soul!