Our Advent Calendar --- 1 December 2020

 

Dec 1 - Tuesday

 

God of mercy and consolation,

help us in our weakness and free us from sin.

Hear our prayers

that we may rejoice at the coming of your Son,

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

 

Micah 4:6-7

⁶ In that day, says the Lord,
    I will assemble the lame
and gather those who have been driven away,
    and those whom I have afflicted.
⁷ The lame I will make the remnant,
    and those who were cast off, a strong nation;
and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion
    now and forevermore.

 

 

“Advent is the time of promise; it is not yet the time of fulfillment. We are still in the midst of everything and in the logical inexorability and relentlessness of destiny.…Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.”
                 ― Alfred Delp, Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons And Prison Writings 1941-1944