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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