Are You Ready?

This is the homily for the First Sunday of Advent! Time to get ready for Jesus’ coming!!!

We often never learn our lessons because we don't pay attention to the homily and what is being said by the priest and today was no exception . Only I think it's not that I wasn't paying attention, it is because I merely forgotten(what else is new) the 3rd point that the priest made on HOW to get ready for the coming of Jesus Christ !

I know one way he said we can do that is to forgive others and another one was to essentially pray more as in develop a prayer attitude , as in PRAY ALL DAY!

Listen to Fr. Larrys audio homily and if you need to you can visit his blog here




This has been a weekly edition of Catholicism 101 . Are you ready? what have you learnt this week? Jesus is knocking , will you let him in or will you be like the innkeeper and have no room prepared for him .

So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” Matthew 24:44

We Are Ourselves Nothing

Origins

This is mouthful to digest and ponder and it is a quote from Pope Benedict's Homily for the dedication of the Church of the Holy Family 'Sagrada Familia' in Barcelona Spain yesterday.

Read his homily online

"Let each man take care how he builds. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1 Cor 3:10-11).

The Church of herself is nothing; she is called to be the sign and instrument of Christ, in pure docility to his authority and in total service to his mandate. The one Christ is the foundation of the one Church. He is the rock on which our faith is built.

Building on this faith, let us strive together to show the world the face of God who is love and the only one who can respond to our yearning for fulfilment.

(We are nothing without Christ)
(His mouthpiece)
(Total effacement)
(One One One)
(Amen)
(The faith of Christ)
(If indeed it will save a few)

I think I get the spiritual connection at least I hope so .

"Do you not know that you are God's temple?... God's temple is holy, and you are that temple" (1 Cor 3:16-17).