The Season of Advent is one of the highlights of the Christian Year and in this series we will consider the Preparations and the Passion of Advent so that we might embrace the Presence and Promise of the Christ who comes. So, come, let us adore him!

Verse 2 of Malachi 3 says “But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like washers' soap;”

Verse 4 of Luke 3 says “…as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.”