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The Grace We Ask Heaven on the Third Sunday of Advent

The Grace We Ask Heaven on the Third Sunday of Advent On the first Sunday of Advent, we request the grace to be Resolute. To be committed to run to Jesus upon His Coming with righteous deeds in hand. On the second Sunday of Advent we asked for the grace to remove those obstacles . . . those things . . . that would prevent us from moving forward toward Christ. Furthermore, on this third Sunday of Advent we also ask for a grace from Heaven. On this Sunday we ask for the grace to obtain the Joy of the great Salvation that God has promised us. We ask heaven not merely to be forgiven and not merely to be saved. We ask to be able to embrace the joy of what Heaven has given us! To embrace the Joy that the nearness of Christ brings! Why is this so important? Hear more within the Homily. St. John the Baptist Sends His Disciples To Jesus In the Gospel we hear that St. John the Baptist, in his days in prison, sent his disciples to Jesus to ask if He is the One we look for or is there another? John knew Jesus was the Savior. Why did he send his disciples to Jesus then with that question? What is his message to us during this Advent season? Listen to the Homily. Understand the Grace We Seek during this Sunday of Advent. Listen to this Meditation Media.
Duration
32m
Broadcast on
12 Dec 2022
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The Lord be with you, a reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. When John the Baptist heard in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples to Jesus with this question. Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another? Jesus said to them in reply, "Go and tell John what you hear and see." The blind regain their sight. The lame walk. Leppers are cleansed. The death here. The dead are raised. And the poor have the good news proclaimed to them. And blessed is the one who takes no offense at me. As they were going off, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John. What did you go out to the desert to see, or read, swayed by the wind? Then what did you go out to see? Someone dressed in fine clothing? Those who wear fine clothing are in royal palaces. Then why did you go out? Did you see a prophet? This is the one about whom it is written, "Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you." He will prepare your way before you. Amen I say to you, "Among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he, the gospel of the Lord." We have extra space in the front of the church today because we're waiting for something. Specifically we're waiting for someone and more specifically a group of someone. We have our famous actors and actresses over here who, after Mass, will be acting out the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Saint Juan Diego. The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is tomorrow. We are anticipating it today after Mass so that more people can participate in the marvelous dramatization that our young people put on. Every year this has become a long-standing tradition at the shrine now going back at least eight years. The creating of the space in the front for the dramatization is also a reminder that the very essence of the time of Advent is a certain creation of space in our hearts and in our lives. It is a creation of space with regard to something we are looking forward to. We want to pause on that because as we have been noting, as we've moved through these weeks of Advent, especially on the Sundays, there is a very definite sequence of things that happen as the church moves through this holy season and the key to understanding that sequence is paying attention to the Collettes, the opening prayers for Sunday Mass. Once again I'm not going to put anybody on the spot and ask you what you agreed to when you said amen, but it is important that we start there, but in the context of what we've been doing and agreeing to, making our own over all of these now three weeks of Advent. On the first Sunday of Advent we ask for the grace to be resolute, to be firmly committed to running forth to meet Christ when He comes with good deeds in our hand. No, not that we have a desire to do so, not that we have nice thoughts about maybe getting around to it, but that we are gifted by heaven with that great grace that we commit ourselves to doing exactly that.

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The Grace We Ask Heaven on the Third Sunday of Advent On the first Sunday of Advent, we request the grace to be Resolute. To be committed to run to Jesus upon His Coming with righteous deeds in hand. On the second Sunday of Advent we asked for the grace to remove those obstacles . . . those things . . . that would prevent us from moving forward toward Christ. Furthermore, on this third Sunday of Advent we also ask for a grace from Heaven. On this Sunday we ask for the grace to obtain the Joy of the great Salvation that God has promised us. We ask heaven not merely to be forgiven and not merely to be saved. We ask to be able to embrace the joy of what Heaven has given us! To embrace the Joy that the nearness of Christ brings! Why is this so important? Hear more within the Homily. St. John the Baptist Sends His Disciples To Jesus In the Gospel we hear that St. John the Baptist, in his days in prison, sent his disciples to Jesus to ask if He is the One we look for or is there another? John knew Jesus was the Savior. Why did he send his disciples to Jesus then with that question? What is his message to us during this Advent season? Listen to the Homily. Understand the Grace We Seek during this Sunday of Advent. Listen to this Meditation Media.