A kind of breviary of reflections for each day of the year from the Pope’s various writings. Taken from the book, Co-Workers Of The Truth (Ignatius)
Our faith and our love are ever incomplete as long as we walk this earth, and they are constantly threatened with extinction. For this is in truth the time of Advent. Nobody can claim, “I am redeemed once and for all.” In this temporal world we do not find redemption as a completed fact...
One of the fundamental elements of Advent is waiting which at the same time is hoping. Advent thus expresses the essence of Christian chronology and the essence of history as such. Jesus has illustrated this in many parables: in the story of the servants who wait for the return of their master or else,...
Advent is not a sacred liturgical play, leading us, as it were, once again back on the path of things past and showing us, once again, in vivid pictures how it used to be way back then, in order for us to enjoy the present time of salvation all the more joyfully and blissfully....
