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2nd Sunday of Advent, Year B, 10 December 2023 Note: Homilies & Angelus / Regina Caeli of Pope Saint John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI & Pope Francis I had been compiled for you after the Mass Readings below. Happy Reading! Liturgical Colour: Violet.
Mass Readings from USCCB, ETWN, Universalis (Christian Art). See our compilation with Pictures in Encouragements-536. 8-) 1st Reading: Isaiah 40: 1-5, 9-11; Responsorial: Psalm 85: 9-10-11-12, 13-14; 2nd Reading: 2 Peter 3: 8-14; Gospel Reading: Mark 1: 1-8, CCTNtv. Commentaries of the Saints: Mark Chapter 1 from CATENA AUREA BY SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS.
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Note: Before you read further, kindly be informed that we have found out on 1 December 2023 that the REAL Seer Sister Lucia from the Fatima Apparitions had been “missing” starting around 1960. It was reported that Pope John Paul II & Pope Benedict XVI could be involved in this. The Imposter has been declared “venerable” by Pope Francis on June 22, 2023. Twitter. Medjugorje Visionary Ivan on Seeing Pope John Paul II in an Apparition Pope Benedict's Sign From Heaven to Dr Hesemann on the Day of His Passing! 31st December, 2022
Homilies, Angelus / Regina Caeli of
See our compilation with Pictures in Encouragements-536. 8-)
See our compilation with Pictures in Encouragements-537. 8-)
See our compilation with Pictures in Encouragements-537. 8-)
See our compilation with Pictures in Encouragements-538. 8-)
See our compilation with Pictures in Encouragements-538. 8-)
See our compilation with Pictures in Encouragements-538. 8-)
See our compilation with Pictures in Encouragements-539. 8-)
Last Sunday we began Advent with the call to be vigilant; today, the Second Sunday of this season of preparation for Christmas, the liturgy indicates to us its proper content: it is a time to recognize the shortcomings in our life, to smooth out the roughness of pride and to make room for Jesus who comes.
The Prophet Isaiah addresses the people, proclaiming the end of the Exile in Babylon and the return to Jerusalem. He prophesies: “A voice cries: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord... Every valley shall be lifted up’” (40:3-4). The valleys to be lifted up represent all the shortcomings of our behaviour before God, all our sins of omission. One shortcoming in our life could be the fact that we do not pray or that we pray little. Advent is thus a favourable time to pray with greater intensity, to reserve to the spiritual life the important place it deserves. Another shortcoming could be a lack of charity for our neighbour, above all toward people most in need of help, not only material, but also spiritual. We are called to be more attentive, closer, to the needs of others. Like John the Baptist, in this way we can open the ways of hope in the desert of the barren hearts of many people.
“Every mountain and hill shall be made low” (cf. v. 4), Isaiah again exhorts. The mountains and hills that must be made low are pride, arrogance, insolence. Where there is pride, where there is insolence, where there is arrogance, the Lord cannot enter because that heart is full of pride, of insolence, of arrogance. For this reason, we must allay this pride. We must take on attitudes of meekness and humility, without reproach, to listen, to speak with meekness and thus to prepare for the coming of our Saviour, He who is meek and humble of heart (cf. Matthew 11:29). Then we are asked to eliminate all obstacles that we set against our union with the Lord: “the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed” — says Isaiah — “and all flesh shall see it together” (40:4-5). These actions, however, must be performed with joy, because they are designed in preparation for the coming of Jesus. At home, when we await the visit of a dear person, we prepare everything with care and gladness. In the same way, we want to prepare ourselves for the coming of the Lord: to await him each day attentively, so as to be filled by his grace when he comes.
The Saviour whom we await is able to transform our life with his grace, with the power of the Holy Spirit, with the power of love. The Holy Spirit, in fact, infuses our hearts with God’s love, the inexhaustible source of purification, of new life and freedom. The Virgin Mary fully lived this reality, allowing herself to be ‘baptized’ by the Holy Spirit who inundated her with his power. May she, who prepared for the coming of Christ with the totality of her existence, help us to follow her example and may she guide our steps to the coming Lord. Pope Francis I (Angelus, 10 December 2020)
Important Note: We found these News record (starting from 19 April 2023). We prayed to God for direction on what to do next, we were instructed to stop updating the Homilies, Regina Caeli/ Angelus and the General Audiences from the Vatican (until the matters are resolved) as we lay persons are unable to discern quickly what is beneficial/detrimental to our souls and yours, and this work is supposed to be a Thanksgiving to Him who loves us and has blessed us. Thanks for following us.
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Compiled on 29 November 2020, 15:28 SGT Last updated: 10 December 2023, 12:38 SGT
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