During this season of Advent, we pray that the life of Christ may be born anew in our hearts, especially in circumstances that seem hopeless and lifeless. As the mystic Angelus Silesius once wrote,“Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.”

1 Sunday Advent, year C

Jer 33:14–16; 1 Thess 3:12–4:2; Lk 21:25–36