Every year, the Church reserves the Second and Third Sundays of Advent to introduce us to the person and preaching of St. John the Baptist. The Second Sunday usually presents his figure ...

Still, noted Lomnitzer during this season of Advent in 2023, there was more to come. "As the drama of God’s revelation intensifies, John the Baptist now appears, unlike any of the other prophets ...

Regardless of which Evangelist is the particular focus in the three-year Sunday cycle of readings, the Gospels of the Second and Third Sundays of Advent always focus on the person and work of St ...

Planning: 2nd Sunday of Advent (A) By: Lawrence Mick Writing these columns months in advance makes it difficult to know how to suggest linking our worship to current events and concerns. It’s ...

Isaiah 40.1-11; Psalm 85.1-2, 8-13; 2 Peter 3.8-15a; Mark 1.1-8 IF WE take the first two readings for Advent 2 at face value, the Second Coming will not be welcoming or comforting, but terrifying.

Entering more deeply into the season of Advent, we are invited to consider who is this person ... Mark quotes the prophet Isaiah, and the section he uses is the first reading at this Sunday’s Mass ...

That unresolved question returns us to the business of waiting, which Advent Sunday foregrounded so emphatically. Waiting for God, as the Second Letter of Peter reminds its readers, happens in God's ...