Third Sunday
of ADVENT
Gaudete Sunday
There
is a shift from adoring “The Lord Who is to
come”,
to
worshipping with joy “The Lord Who is now nigh and close at
hand”.
The name
GAUDETE derives from
the first
word of this
Sunday’s
Introit of
the Mass from Phil 4:4-5 ... At the heart, it is a
command...
Gaudete in
Domino semper ~ Rejoice in the Lord
always
Rejoice in the Lord always; and again I say,rejoice.
Indeed the Lord is near.
"We
cannot be messengers of God's consolation
if we do
not experience first the
joy
of
being consoled and loved by Him....
When we remain in prayerful silence in His presence,
When we remain in prayerful silence in His presence,
when
we meet Him in the Eucharist
or
in the sacrament of Reconciliation.
All
this consoles us!"
Pope Francis
December 7, 2014, Angelus
address
St Lucy (Santa Lucia)
In Italian, Lucia means "light"
Virgin,
Martyr
Sicily
~ 283-304
Patron
of blindness and eye problems
Feast
Day - December 13
(Happy
Day, Happy Anniversary to
Jeff,
Fr Spencer, Sr Marie Vianney and the Johnsons -
14
years in the Church!)
Sentenced
to be defiled in a brothel, Lucy
asserted:
"No one's body is polluted so as to
endanger the soul if it has not pleased the mind. If you were to lift my hand to
your idol and so make me offer against my will, I would still be guiltless in
the sight of the true God, who judges according to the will and knows all
things. If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity
will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your
purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to
me."
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St Lucia, pray
for us!
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