Fr. Nathan discusses the spiritual season of Advent.


-Venture, adventure, venir: what is to come. 
-Advent looks forward in joyful hope to what is to come.
-Is there a part of your life where you’d like to make a fresh start?
-Advent emerges from the northern hemisphere’s natural change of seasons.
-The days get darker, growing seasons are followed by harvest, then winter’s rest.
-The Advent wreath: evergreens and increasing candlelight.
-The third Sunday, the lighting of the candle of joyful hope.
-Advent rest invites calm, quietude, and self-reflection just as the bustle of Black Friday commercial Christmas kick in.
-“A shoot shall sprout…”. Can you look for the new growth right where you feel most chopped down?
-Christmas is placed near the winter solstice, the darkest time of the year because Christ is the light that is coming into the world.

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Father Nathan Castle, O.P., is a Dominican Friar, author, podcast host, and retreat leader. Over the past 27 years, his unique ministry rooted in the Catholic Church's mystical tradition has helped more than 600 souls transition from one afterlife plane to a more joyful one. Father Nathan believes that providing such help is something the Holy Spirit has given him and his prayer partners to do.

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