Fourth Sunday of Advent Love...

   Fourth Sunday of Advent

Love

"The world being unworthy to receive the

son of God directly from the hands of the Father, 

He gave His son to Mary 

for the world to receive Him from her."

St Augustine

Our Lady of Expectation

 “The modern world’s feverish struggle 

for unbridled, often unlicensed, freedom 

is answered by the bound, enclosed 

helplessness and dependence of Christ:

Christ in the womb,

Christ in the Host,

Christ in the tomb."

      

Caryll Houselander 

The Reed of God

  

FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY....
Christmas Eve... 

Behold, when the fullness of time had come,

God sent his Son into the world. – Gal 4:4

  

"The Bethlehem of that night …

has never passed away.

…It lives a real, unbroken, unsuspended life, 

not in history only, or in art, 

or in poetry, or even in the energetic fertile 

worship and fleshly hearts of the faithful, 

but in the worshipful reality 

of the Blessed Sacrament.

Round the Tabernacle, 

which is our abiding Bethlehem, 

goes on the same world of beautiful devotion 

 which surrounded the new-born Babe, 

real, out of real hearts, 

and realized by God’s acceptance." 

Fr Frederick W Faber

"The mystery of Bethlehem 

is renewed upon the altar,

and the cry goes forth:

'Christ is born to us.  Come, let us adore!' "

Fr Karl Adam