Preparing Souls: Antiphon for December 20
This joy is more than a good and fuzzy feeling in our hearts; it is the certainty that has unlocked and loosened us from our sins that bound us.
This joy is more than a good and fuzzy feeling in our hearts; it is the certainty that has unlocked and loosened us from our sins that bound us.
Even as we ask for the Lord Christ’s deliverance of each of us from every evil of body and soul, we look ahead with joy and gladness, living in hope in Christ.
We prepare in Advent to celebrate the coming of our Lord and to worship Him, the one who saves us from our sins because we could not keep the Law.
We look beyond Christmas and wait for our Lord’s coming again to raise us to life, body and soul, and the Church prays, “O Wisdom . . . Come!”
As we await the advent of Christ, we need the same consolations for our times
The O Antiphons can continue to teach, enlighten and comfort the Church today.
If the future of the Church depends upon us, then we are sunk.
Wherever the Gospel and Sacraments are—enough to bring people to true faith in the true Jesus—there is the Church.
In the September issue, we learn from women who have gone before us in the faith.
So it is with marriage. You won’t get very far trying to travel alone in a relationship, talking to yourself, or at someone else.
In this issue, we rejoice in the joy, comfort and consolation that we share as the body of Christ.
Read one Synod president’s words, which comprise a beautiful, urgent admonition for synod conventions to be, above all, doctrinal and to be doctrinal in order to be about mission.