2 December 2018 | First Sunday of Advent | Menlo Park, Calif. 

And so we come around again to the beginning of another liturgical year. The season of Advent is a graced time to reflect on the awesomeness of God’s providence, His will which orders all of creation, and how well I am submitting myself to that will. “True humility is to listen to what God wants, and then do it,” says St. John of the Cross. Let this Advent be a true season of renewal of our trust in the Lord, that He will do all He has promised! 

Opening music: “Air: But who may abide the day of his coming,” Messiah, Part One, composed by George Friedrich Handel, performed by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, 2010. All rights reserved.