When peaceful stillness compassed everything and the night in its swift course was half spent, Your all-powerful word, from heaven’s royal throne bounded. (Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111525.cfm
Today’s passage gave rise to Christmas Eve tradition of Midnight Mass. Remembering the Virgin Mary, we begin the preparations for Christmas. In Envigado (my town within the great metropolitan city of Medellín), the Christmas lights will be turned on next Friday, November 21, with great festivity and will remain until January 18. Advent used to be six weeks long, and in some parts of the church it still is. Tomorrow, November 16, is the First Sunday of Advent, or we can wait until Sunday, November 30. But either way, may the Holy Season of Advent make us more aware of Christ in the poor, especially in immigrants, and in those who have nothing. https://youtu.be/X0ZSRwrmNKA?si=sfGozG7uhRr9UlgG
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Saturday of the Blessed Virgin Mary November 15
