Fr. Alan Zobler O.S.F.S.: “Let’s make the world know just how much we’ve been loved and how much our God loves our world.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “We have the opportunity to begin 2021 to forge a new path, to offer gifts to Jesus, the gift of our heart.”

Deacon Justin Moor: “While Joseph didn’t talk the talk from a biblical perspective, he certainly walked the walk.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “The quality of the wrapping of the gift is not always a great indicator of how great the gift is.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “We’re reminded that in the imperfect, small, less-than-ideal circumstances of that stable 2,000 years ago, God did something extraordinary.”

Father Philip Smith: “I think most of us have some kind of fear of being alone. We like keeping busy, oftentimes because we’re afraid of what will bubble up within us.”

Deacon Justin Moor: “By looking for God in different faces and places God could be hiding this Advent, we will be preparing to open the greatest Christmas gift: the gift of finding the fullness of God in our lives.”

Father Jeremy Miller: "How do we close the gap between incongruent or disconnected parts? Religion is nothing else but the attempt to find the glue to bind together heaven and earth, God and man, and by extension that which binds us together."

Father Jeremy Miller:  “I think it’s a challenge for all of us to try and find what’s redeeming always in the circumstances that life throws at us.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “This feast is meant to remind us that our primary allegiance is to Jesus as Lord, as king of all creation and Lord of our hearts.”