ADVENT WITH POPE FRANCIS, org. We celebrate the second Advent Sunday in the eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. As in every year we hear the call: Let us go out as pilgrim to meet the Lord! Joy for the poor, a feast for the people – let us prepare the way of the Lord! In his Jubilee message at the audience on 25 October our Holy Father, Pope Francis, presented an Advent inspiration … an Advent inspiration towards this Christmas and into Schoenstatt’s second century. Let us allow ourselves to be moved and challenged by it, and prove by deeds that we are going out to meet the Lord and the poor, motivated by the Advent gesture of this Pope – such as raffling his gifts and building showers for the homeless. This Pope who leads us as a Church, as a family, to be Advent in sharing what is ours, in going out from what is ours, and in thinking of others – in “motherly fatherliness”, as Fr Kentenich called it.
December 14 – Third Advent Sunday
Bringing Jesus down
Mary is the one who helps to bring Jesus down to us.
Bringing Jesus down.
She brings him from heaven to live with us.
And she is the one who watches, cares, warns.
December 7 – Second Advent Sunday
She is the Mother of the Church. She is motherhood.
She is Mother because she gives birth to Jesus and helps us with the power of the Holy Spirit so that Jesus can be born and grow in us.
She is the one who continuously gives us life.
She is the Mother of the Church. She is motherhood.
We do not have the right, and if we do, we are wrong, to have an orphan mentality. In other words, a Christian does not have the right to “be an orphan.”
You have a Mother. We have a Mother.
November 30 – First Advent Sunday
Transforming a stable into a home for Jesus with a few rags and a mountain of tenderness
Right, the truth is that Mary is the one who knows how to transform a stable into a home for Jesus with a few rags and a mountain of tenderness.
And she is also able to make a child jump in his mother’s womb as we heard in the Gospel.
She is able to give us the joy of Jesus.
Mary is, fundamentally, Mother.
Ok, well, Mother is a very small thing, no? Mary is Queen, Lady.
No. Stop. Mary is Mother. Why?
Because she brought you to Jesus.
