Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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The gospel for Advent 4A gives us Joseph’s angelic encounter while deciding about Mary when most of us are thinking Christmas.
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We often read the challenge Joseph faces as doing the “right” thing. What the angel invites them all into is something new.
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The question offered by the angel encounters that surround Jesus’s birth is not what we would do, but what we do.
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The gospel for the third week of Advent (year A) is messy, because we may not be sure what Jesus is trying to say.
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After being confronted by followers of John the Baptist, Jesus reminds them this whole project is way bigger than that.
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The temptation in this gospel is to hear Jesus talking up toughness as virtuous—rather than normal for a prophet.