advent, grace, season
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ADVENT: A SEASON OF GRACE: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 1ST SUNDAY OF ADVENT, CYCLE A, 2023

ByOnuh

Once again, we begin the season of Advent and a new liturgical calendar of the Church´s year of grace in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ. Advent is a moment of grace to be awake while waiting. It is a new season of waiting, preparing, and being alert for the coming of the Lord. The world awaited his coming more than 2000 years ago. The world anticipates his coming in glory at the end of time. Equally, the world awaits his coming daily in every event and experience of our lives.

peace, reconciliation, advent
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NO CHRISTMAS WITHOUT RECONCILIATION AND PEACE: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 2ND SUNDAY OF ADVENT CYCLE A, 2022

ByOnuh

Honestly, we cannot prepare and celebrate Christmas without reconciliation and peace with God, others and ourselves.
This Sunday, we have the theme of peace through repentance and reconciliation with God, others and oneself in loving preparation for Christ’s birth at Christmas.

advent, coming, preparation
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THE LORD’S COMING AND OUR HOPEFUL WAITING: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 1ST SUNDAY OF ADVENT, CYCLE A, 2022

ByOnuh

It is a new season of the church’s liturgical year, the season of advent which means the lord’s coming to save us and our hopeful waiting in preparation. The word advent in Latin “adventus” means “coming”.

This is the coming of Jesus into the world. Advent is intended to be a season of anticipation for Christ coming, preparation for Christ coming and reparation for Christ coming at Christmas. Advent also marks the start of the liturgical New Year and a moment of grace, mercy, peace, love, and salvation.

Peace, reconciliation
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NO CHRISTMAS WITHOUT SPIRITUAL PREPARATION, RECONCILIATION AND PEACE: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 2ND SUNDAY OF ADVENT, CYCLE C, 2021

ByOnuh

The most fundamental spiritual reality of Advent is that there is no Christmas without spiritual preparation of our hearts and reconciliation or peace with God or our brothers and sisters. Hence, Advent is a season of grace that God gives us through His Church to prepare us spiritually for the birth of Jesus Christ. This birth is not in the celebrations, traditions, decorations or symbols of Christmas but our hearts. The befitting dwelling place of God in our lives.

Hope
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HOPE AMID UNCERTAINTIES: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 1ST SUNDAY OF ADVENT, CYCLE C, 2021

ByOnuh

The Advent season of hope begins the new liturgical year of the Church. It offers us hope amid uncertainties of life and the time we are living. With the pandemic still lingering, it seems our hope of a better future is depicted.