2ND SUNDAY OF ADVENT HERALDS OUR REPENTANCE FROM SIN IN READINESS FOR THE LORD'S COIMING IN HOLINESS AND DEVOTION...........

On this Second Sunday of the sacred Season of Advent, we are heralded by both Isaiah the Prophet, and John the Baptist, to be repentant and the make ready for the Coming of the Lord, by preparing the way of our hearts, minds, hands, feet, - our whole bodies and souls, to greet the One long proclaimed and welcome Him unconditionally and abidingly, into our lives.  Peter the Apostle in our Second Reading at Mass today - 2 Peter 3:8-14; counsels us in the timelessness of the Lord God, and how Divine existence and initiatives are beyond measurable units of time and space, dwelling in the stratasphere of eternity.
....."One day like a thousand years.....A thousand years like one day".....And Peter recommends that Holiness and Devotion are the way of life by which Catholic-Christians must live in anticipation of the Lord's Coming.  Joined with the proclamations of Mark and Isaiah, we hear and read today, of Repentance and Readiness, these four combined touchstones of faith and fidelity will most certainly sustain us to celebrate and embrace the unfolding of the three-fold Coming of Jesus The Christ, as we watch and wait as God's Advent People.  May your observance in prayerful and worshipping anticipation, draw you ever nearer, to the One - the Christ, the Messiah, the Lamb of God, for whom we make Ready and Prepare the Way...........Fr.  Troy