I hope you’re reading this in the early morning on this day. It’s been my practice for years to wake up very early on the 24th, long before the sun, to add extra time to my prayers and meditation. Some thoughts for your own meditation on this most holy of days! Theologian Karl Rahner- It … Continue reading Advent Devotional: Wednesday, December 24: O Emmanuel
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once wrote, Everything beyond a certain distance is dark, and yet everything is full of being around us. This is the darkness, heavy with promises and threats, which the Christian will have to illuminate and animate with the divine presence. On this day, just two days before the grand eve of … Continue reading Advent Devotional: Monday, December 22: O Dayspring
Perhaps one of the oddest-named O Antiphons, unless you know a bit of history, calling the Messiah “O Key of David” will sound strange. In some chapels around the world tonight the priest will chant, O Key of David, O royal power of Israel, Controlling at your will the gate of heaven; Come, break down … Continue reading Advent Devotional: Sunday, December 21: O Key of David
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