Our Journey to Christmas

The Meaning of Advent

Our Lady in a Garland of Roses

Our journey to Christmas is a journey of faith leading us to give ourselves as a gift of love in response to the Gift of Love. Our Divine Infant King desires to be born anew in our hearts by His grace and love, but our hearts must be prepared to receive such a gift. We challenge ourselves this season to ​be attentive to His voice, making Him welcome with love and reparation. Beholding the Star, our Mother Mary, we will follow her to Bethlehem, bringing our gift of love - a golden crown for the little King.

During this first week, we recall the longings of the Patriarchs and Prophets, the holy souls living years before the coming of the Messiah. With what intense yearning they desired but a glimpse of that blessed Light of the World Who now gives Himself daily, in the fullness of His Love, to all who will receive Him. On each Christmas Day, He comes with a special plenitude of grace to all hearts who have prepared for Him. Our time of preparation is short! Let us warm our cold hearts in the furnace of Love issuing from the Sacred Heart of the unborn Infant reposing in His Immaculate tabernacle! His Mother will assist us in being attentive to the whisperings of His grace, His little voice asking for this or that little sacrifice or act of fidelity to our daily duties.

Focus of the First Week: Silence and Recollection

O Jesus, living in Mary, come and live in Thy servants; in the spirit of Thy holiness, in the fullness of Thy might, in the truth of Thy virtues, in the perfection of Thy ways, in the communion of Thy mysteries. Subdue every hostile power, in Thy Spirit, for the glory of the Father. Amen.

Christ in Majesty